Lottie moon brief biography

Missionary in China ( – )

This article is about the missionary. For the Confederate spy, see Cynthia Charlotte Moon.

Charlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon (December 12, – December 24, ) was an American Southern Baptistmissionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board who spent nearly 40 years (–) living and working in China.

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As a teacher and evangelist she laid a foundation for traditionally solid support for missions among Southern Baptists, especially through its Woman's Missionary Union.

Early life

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, acres (&#;km²) 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.

The Moon family valued education, and at age 14 Lottie went to school at the Baptist-affiliated Virginia Female Se Charlotte 'Lottie' Digges Moon - Scottsville Museum PAJE