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Moon was born to affluent parents who were staunch Baptists, Anna Maria Barclay and Edward Harris Moon. She grew up on the family's ancestral 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) tobacco plantation called Viewmont [1] near Scottsville, Virginia. Lottie was fourth in a family of five girls and two boys. Lottie was 13 when her father died in a riverboat accident.
Cynthia Charlotte Moon (1828–1895) was born in Danville, Virginia, on August 10, 1828. She and her sister, Virginia Moon are best known for their role as Confederate spies during the American Civil War .
No one had more influence on American political thinking about foreign policy than Henry R. Luce (1898–1967) [citation needed], founder and publisher of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE magazines from the 1920s to his death. He was born to missionary parents in China, and educated there until age 15.
The Moon family was the first and most famous family to reside at 220 East High Street. Robert Moon, Lottie's father, moved his family into the house in 1839, and they lived as a family in the house until 1849. In 1849, Robert Moon offered the house as a gift to Lottie upon the announcement of her engagement to James Clark.
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.
A few days after Anna's death, Ernest changed his plea to guilty and was later sentenced to life in prison. "Before being led away in irons to the state petitionary, Burkhart turned and smiled ...
Soleil Moon Frye is remembering Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock after his untimely death. The 47-year-old Punky Brewster star took to Instagram over the weekend to share a tribute to her ...
In addition to his controversy at Southern Seminary, Toy is also famous for teaching and once being engaged to Lottie Moon, for whom the SBC annual Christmas offering for international missions is named. Toy first encountered Lottie Moon at the Albemarle Female Institute, founded by Southern Seminary founder John Broadus. Lottie was a capable ...