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Name: GAMERTSFELDER, Mary Magdaline, Miss

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Birth Date: 7.3.1865 Helmick, Coshocton County, Ohio

Death Date: 2.1.1937 Ngenda, near Ruiru

First Date: 1906

Profession: Africa Inland missionary

Area: Kijabe, Ruiru

Book Reference: Drumkey, KGF, EAHB 1907, Red Book 1912, North

General Information:

E-Mail from AIM, America - Mary G. went to Africa on June 21, 1906 with Bertha Simpson and Emil Sywulka. She was at Kambui mission station, Kenya. She resigned in 1910 and sailed to USA May 6 1911 with William Knapp. She was born in Coshackton [Coshocton] County, OH, graduated from North Western College in nursing. She had a year at Moody Bible Institute …..
July/October 1906 issue of 'Hearing and Doing' - Miss Mary M. Gamertsfelder was born in Coshockton County, Ohio, spending her childhood days on her father's farm. After teaching five terms in the country schools and graduating from North Western College, she finished a complete course of nursing in the German Hospital of Chicago. She has also had the advantage of one year's training in the Moody Institute in Chicago, and spent some years in city mission work. After spending the past year as a missionary in the lumber and mining region of the Northwest, Miss Gamertsfelder writes that she is 'happy in the blessed consciousness that God is leading her to those of His own creatures who have never yet heard of redeeming love.'
Red Book 1912 - Africa Inland Mission - Kambui
Drumkey 1909 - African Inland Mission, 1906 - Miss Mary Gamertsfelder
Gazette 13 Apr 1937 probate
See Evanson N. Wamagatta, The Presbyterian Church of East Africa, 2009, for establishment of mission. Gospel Miss. Society acquired 5 missionary nurses: Mary Gamertsfelder (1906-1937), Margaret Gough (1923-1939), Bessie Lovell (1923-1935), Martha Ruch (1923-1925) and Elnora Boda (1935-1945).
She was buried at Ngenda.

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