Curmudgeon
Los Angeles

Why I want to go to this place

My great-great-aunt Ada Beeson Farmer was a missionary in Southern China from 1902 until her death in Liuzhou (Liuchow) in 1911. She is buried here. Items she shipped back to family members in North Louisiana have ended up in my possession: a gorgeous royal blue silk brocade robe with embroidered celadon trim, a pair of embroidered scarlet silk lotus feet slippers, a light-as-a-feather porcelain tea set. Rounding out the collection, I have a copy of the biography that her husband Rev. Wilmoth A. Farmer published in 1912: Ada Beeson Farmer: A Missionary Heroine of Kuang Si, South China. Among the photos in the book is one of her grave. I don’t suppose it would be possible to locate it after all these years; nevertheless, I find myself entertaining the fantasy every now and then of trying to.


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suzduncan
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Ada Beeson

Hi,
I work at Sweet Briar College, which is in possession of Ada Beeson’s wedding dress. It was donated by a Mrs. William Ogden. That, along with the fact that she and her husband were missionaries, is all that we know about her. We have no idea how this dress ended up here (how Mrs. Ogden relates to Ada Beeson). Do you have any information that could help solve this mystery? Also, do you have any photos of Ada Beeson? I can be reached at sramsey@sbc.edu. We do have several Beesons that are alumnae of the college, but all graduated in around the 20s and are likely deceased. Can you help?


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