Jennie Pond Atwater
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Jennie Pond Atwater. Illustration from the 1896 memorial pamphlet.
Jennie Pond Atwater (1865-96) was the daughter of Congregationalist Rev. Chauncey Northrop Pond. She was born in Oberlin, Ohio, September 14, 1865. She served for four years a missionary at the Fenzhou station (China) of the American Board of Foreign Missions and died there of puerperal fever on November 25, 1896. She was 31. In Boxer Rebellion, her husband, the Rev. Ernest R. Atwater (1865-1900), her children, Ernestine (b. 1889), Mary (b. 1892), Celia, and Bertha (b. 1896), and Ernest's second wife, Elizabeth Graham Atwater, were all killed.
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- Our Jennie: Jennie Pond Atwater, by Rev. Chauncey Northrop Pond, Memorial pamphlet published in 1896.
