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Florence Eugenia Nickles

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Florence Eugenia Nickles

Birth
Due West, Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
Death
4 Feb 1987 (aged 100)
Seneca, Oconee County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA GPS-Latitude: 34.2041364, Longitude: -82.3911634
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Florence Eugenia Nickles, a daughter of George Newton Nickles and the former Jane Eleanor McKee, served in evangelism and theological education in Jiaxing and Nanking, China from 1915-1950.

She was born in Due West, South Corolina in 1887. Graduated from Woman's College of South Carolina, Columbia, SC in 1909. She taught for several years in public schools. Attended Biblical Seminary in New York 1913-1915.

Appointed to China, she sailed on September 19th 1915. Assigned to Jiaxing, she entered in country evangelistic work, but was especially interested in the girls' schools. Requested by the Woman's Bible Training School in Nanking to come to teach at that institution, she took up the work of training young women as Bible teachers and workers in other forms of Christian service.

In her later life, she lived in Seneca, South Carolina with her sister, Elizabeth Bryson Nickles.









Florence Eugenia Nickles, a daughter of George Newton Nickles and the former Jane Eleanor McKee, served in evangelism and theological education in Jiaxing and Nanking, China from 1915-1950.

She was born in Due West, South Corolina in 1887. Graduated from Woman's College of South Carolina, Columbia, SC in 1909. She taught for several years in public schools. Attended Biblical Seminary in New York 1913-1915.

Appointed to China, she sailed on September 19th 1915. Assigned to Jiaxing, she entered in country evangelistic work, but was especially interested in the girls' schools. Requested by the Woman's Bible Training School in Nanking to come to teach at that institution, she took up the work of training young women as Bible teachers and workers in other forms of Christian service.

In her later life, she lived in Seneca, South Carolina with her sister, Elizabeth Bryson Nickles.











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