Edna May Dobbins was born the 1st child and 1st daughter of William Isaiah Leeds Dobbins and Mary Elizabeth Reamer Dobbins on December 20, 1894 in Camden, New Jersey. She was never married.
Granddaughter of William A. Dobbins and Mary Ann Pickett Dobbins ..... Great Granddaughter of Edward Dunlap Pickett and Catharine Conver Pickett.
Edna completed her early schooling in Camden, New Jersey and then attended and graduated as a nurse from the " Cooper Hospital School of Nursing " in Camden, New Jersey. She then attended and graduated as a teacher in 1925 from the " Bethel Bible Missionary School ".
In 1926 Edna was first sent as a missionary to Cape Palmas, Liberia by the Highway Mission Tabernacle of 12th and Green Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mission there was to nurse, teach, feed, clothe, and " purchase young children who were being sold into slavery ". She also served as a dentist and performed minor surgery on the children when necessary.
She returned home from that mission in 1929 due to contracting " Blackwater Fever " ( a type of malaria ) and recuperated for over a year. She then, feeling a little better, returned to her mission at Cape Palmas, Liberia in early 1931.
Edna May Dobbins passed away at the age of 37 years, 10 months, and 12 days due to the " Blackwater Fever " near Cape Palmas, Africa. It is unknown if she was cremated or interred somewhere near Cape Palmas, Liberia. She never had any children except for those that she had saved from slavery.
Granddaughter of William A. Dobbins and Mary Ann Pickett Dobbins ..... Great Granddaughter of Edward Dunlap Pickett and Catharine Conver Pickett.
Edna completed her early schooling in Camden, New Jersey and then attended and graduated as a nurse from the " Cooper Hospital School of Nursing " in Camden, New Jersey. She then attended and graduated as a teacher in 1925 from the " Bethel Bible Missionary School ".
In 1926 Edna was first sent as a missionary to Cape Palmas, Liberia by the Highway Mission Tabernacle of 12th and Green Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mission there was to nurse, teach, feed, clothe, and " purchase young children who were being sold into slavery ". She also served as a dentist and performed minor surgery on the children when necessary.
She returned home from that mission in 1929 due to contracting " Blackwater Fever " ( a type of malaria ) and recuperated for over a year. She then, feeling a little better, returned to her mission at Cape Palmas, Liberia in early 1931.
Edna May Dobbins passed away at the age of 37 years, 10 months, and 12 days due to the " Blackwater Fever " near Cape Palmas, Africa. It is unknown if she was cremated or interred somewhere near Cape Palmas, Liberia. She never had any children except for those that she had saved from slavery.
Edna May Dobbins was born the 1st child and 1st daughter of William Isaiah Leeds Dobbins and Mary Elizabeth Reamer Dobbins on December 20, 1894 in Camden, New Jersey. She was never married.
Granddaughter of William A. Dobbins and Mary Ann Pickett Dobbins ..... Great Granddaughter of Edward Dunlap Pickett and Catharine Conver Pickett.
Edna completed her early schooling in Camden, New Jersey and then attended and graduated as a nurse from the " Cooper Hospital School of Nursing " in Camden, New Jersey. She then attended and graduated as a teacher in 1925 from the " Bethel Bible Missionary School ".
In 1926 Edna was first sent as a missionary to Cape Palmas, Liberia by the Highway Mission Tabernacle of 12th and Green Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mission there was to nurse, teach, feed, clothe, and " purchase young children who were being sold into slavery ". She also served as a dentist and performed minor surgery on the children when necessary.
She returned home from that mission in 1929 due to contracting " Blackwater Fever " ( a type of malaria ) and recuperated for over a year. She then, feeling a little better, returned to her mission at Cape Palmas, Liberia in early 1931.
Edna May Dobbins passed away at the age of 37 years, 10 months, and 12 days due to the " Blackwater Fever " near Cape Palmas, Africa. It is unknown if she was cremated or interred somewhere near Cape Palmas, Liberia. She never had any children except for those that she had saved from slavery.
Granddaughter of William A. Dobbins and Mary Ann Pickett Dobbins ..... Great Granddaughter of Edward Dunlap Pickett and Catharine Conver Pickett.
Edna completed her early schooling in Camden, New Jersey and then attended and graduated as a nurse from the " Cooper Hospital School of Nursing " in Camden, New Jersey. She then attended and graduated as a teacher in 1925 from the " Bethel Bible Missionary School ".
In 1926 Edna was first sent as a missionary to Cape Palmas, Liberia by the Highway Mission Tabernacle of 12th and Green Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mission there was to nurse, teach, feed, clothe, and " purchase young children who were being sold into slavery ". She also served as a dentist and performed minor surgery on the children when necessary.
She returned home from that mission in 1929 due to contracting " Blackwater Fever " ( a type of malaria ) and recuperated for over a year. She then, feeling a little better, returned to her mission at Cape Palmas, Liberia in early 1931.
Edna May Dobbins passed away at the age of 37 years, 10 months, and 12 days due to the " Blackwater Fever " near Cape Palmas, Africa. It is unknown if she was cremated or interred somewhere near Cape Palmas, Liberia. She never had any children except for those that she had saved from slavery.
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