Jennie Pond Atwater (1865-96) was the daughter of Congregationalist Rev.

Chauncey Northrop Pond Chauncey Northrop Pond (1841–1920) was a Congregational minister (ordained in 1866) devoted to missionary efforts in China prior to, and around the time of, the Boxer Rebellion. The Oberlin College missionaries who served in Shanxi Province were ...

. She was born in

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, September 14, 1865. She served for four years a missionary with her husband, the Rev. Ernest R. Atwater, at the Fenzhou station (China) of the American Board of Foreign Missions. She died in China of puerperal fever on November 25, 1896. She was 31. Her husband and all of her children - Ernestine (b. 1889), Mary (b. 1892), Celia, and Bertha (b. 1896) were killed in the

Boxer Rebellion The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious F ...

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* ''Our Jennie: Jennie Pond Atwater'', by Rev.

, Memorial pamphlet published in 1896. 1865 births 1896 deaths People from Oberlin, Ohio American Congregationalist missionaries Congregationalist missionaries in China American missionaries in China {{US-reli-bio-stub Deaths_in_childbirth