"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 431-432.
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

MISS MARY MOORMAN:  Miss Mary E. Moorman was the second missionary to 
go to a foreign country from this Association.  She was born near 
Cloverport, Kentucky, in Breckenridge [sic] County, on October 6, 
1866.  She spent her early life in the town of Cloverport, where she 
was educated and where she taught school for twelve years, always 
instilling Christian principles into her pupils.  She was converted 
at the age of nine and afterwards became a member of the Cloverport 
Baptist Church.  Her Bible training began in early life, largely by 
reading the Bible, for many years, to her aged mother who was a 
student of the Word of God herself.
	Miss Moorman came to Owensboro, Kentucky, in July, 1902, and 
united immediately with the First Baptist Church.  She was greatly 
impressed in her girlhood by reading the letters of Miss Crawford, 
who was then in the midst of her great work in China.  After being 
impressed of her call to mission work for a number of years, she 
finally found her heart's desire, being appointed as a Foreign 
Missionary to China, in April, 1904.  She sailed for China the 
following August, and for thirty-three years gave herself unselfishly 
to this work, being retired in August; 1937.
	On the mission field she performed.  both evangelistic work and 
teaching.  It was her joy, Bible in hand, to teach the individual or 
a group of boys the unsearchable riches of the Word of God.  Her 
field of labor for many years was at the Yangchow School with Miss 
McKenzie.  She and Miss Teal started the work at South Gate, which, 
in January, 1940, became the Third Baptist Church of Yangchow.  For 
some time, also, she had charge of the Bible Training School at 
Yangchow.  In after years many of the young people, whom she had 
taught and won to Christ, called her their "Spiritual Mother." After 
the outbreak of the Chinese-Japanese War in 1937, she, with a number 
of other missionaries, was ordered to leave China.  She reached the 
United States on October 8, 1937, and made her way to Owensboro, 
Kentucky, where she still resides as an emeritus missionary drawing a 
small support from the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist 
Convention.  The First Baptist Church supported her in her work in 
China and still assists her in securing the necessities of life.
	Miss Moorman's heart is still with the Chinese people, with 
whom she labored for thirty-three years, and nothing would bring a 
greater joy to her heart than to have again the opportunity of 
ministering to them; but her age and physical condition will not 
permit any more work of this type.  She gave herself in full service 
and consecration to the Master's cause and has now come home to await 
her call to receive the incorruptible crown from his hands.  May her 
last days be crowned with as many joys as the first.

Moorman Crawford McKenzie Teal
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Breckinridge China



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