Liuzhou

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.