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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.
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She was an early feminist pioneer for women's equality, but her reputation in Baptist memory is one of a Southern belle who followed traditional gender roles. Her memory is used in the Union's main annual fundraising drive, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering which was set up in 1918. [4] [2] By 2023, the fund had raised over $5 billion. [5]
Lottie Moon. On July 7, 1873, the board appointed its most famous missionary, Charlotte D. "Lottie" Moon, to China. Moon served many years among the Chinese and after giving her life to foreign missions. In 1888 an annual fund-raising effort, The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, was sponsored by the Woman's Missionary Union. [3]
George W. L. Bickley, a doctor, editor, and adventurer who was born in Indiana [4] and lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded the association, organizing the first castle, or local branch, in Cincinnati in 1854, [5] although records of the KGC convention held in 1860 state that the organization "originated at Lexington, Kentucky, on the fourth day of July 1854, by five gentlemen who came together ...
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.
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 .
Virginia Bethel Moon (1844–1925) was born in Oxford, Ohio in 1844. When she was young, her family lived in what is now known as the "Lottie Moon House."She moved to Memphis, Tennessee with her mother in 1862 where she began a short but notable career as an espionage agent working with Memphis entrepreneur-turned-soldier Nathan Bedford Forrest and other Confederates, including her sister ...