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  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 109,
  "chapterName": "1859. Missionaries and Indian Christian Workers Killed during the Rebellion of 1857",
  "pageFrom": 176,
  "pageTo": 177,
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      "pageNumber": 176,
      "ocrText": "176\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\n109. MISSIONARIES AND INDIAN CHRISTIAN WORKERS\nKILLED DURING THE REBELLION OF 1857 (1859 A.D.)\nThe following list of missionaries, chaplains and Indian Christian\nworkers killed during the Rebellion of 1857 was compiled by M. A.\nSherring and published, in 1859, in The Indian Church in the Great\nRebellion. Reproduced in R. D. Paul, They Kept the Faith, pp. 45-48.\nMissionaries and Chaplains\nRev. M. J. Jennings, Chaplain\nof Delhi, and Miss Jennings.\nBoth killed in their own house\non the gate of the palace.\nRev. A. R. Hubbard, of the\nPropagation of the Gospel\nSociety, Delhi, killed by the\nmutineers in the Delhi Bank.\nRev. John Mackay, of the\nBaptist Missionary Society,\nDelhi, defended himself with\nociety,\nseveral friends in Col. Skinner's\nhouse for three or four days,\nwhen the roof of the cellar in\nwhich they had taken shelter was\ndug up by the order of the king\nand they were all killed.\nRev. David Corrie Sandys, of\nthe Propagation Society, Delhi\nand son of the Rev. T. Sandys\nof the Church Society, Calcutta.\nKilled by the mutineers near the\nmagazine, in attempting to\nreturn from the mission school\nto his own house.\nMr. Cocks and Mr. Louis\nKoch, both of the Propagation\nSociety, killed by the muti-\nneers in the Delhi Bank.\nMrs. Thompson, widow of the\nRev. J. T. Thompson, formerly\nBaptist missionary in Delhi,\nand his two adult daughters.\n-All three killed in their own\nhouse in Delhi.\nRev. Thomas Hunter, mis-\nsionary of the Church of Scot-\nland, Sialkot, Mrs. Hunter and\ntheir infant child killed in\ntheir buggy while fleeing to the\nFort. A ball passing through\nthe face of Mr. Hunter, entered\nthe neck of his wife; a gaol\nwarder completed the murder\nwith a sword killing the child\nalso.\nRev. John M'Callum, Officiat-\ning Chaplain of Shahajanpore.\nRushing from the church where\nthe residents had assembled for\ndivine worship, on its being sur-\nrounded by the mutinous sepoys,\nhe escaped with the loss of one\nof his hands; but in the evening\nof the same day he was attacked\nby labourers in a field and was\nfinally decapitated by a pathan.\nRev. J. E. Freeman and\nMrs. Freeman Rev. D. E.\nCampbell, Mrs. Campbell and\ntheir two children; Rev. A. O.\nJohn, and Mrs. John; Rev. R.\nM'Mullen and Mrs. M'Mullen,\nof the American Presbyterian\nBoard of Missions, Futtehgur.\n-All killed by the Nana at\nBithoor.",
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      "pageNumber": 177,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n177\nRev. F. Fisher, Chaplain of\nFuttehgur, Mrs. Fisher and their\ninfant child escaping from\nFuttehgur in boats, they were\nattacked by sepoys, and on\njumping into the river,\nMr. Fisher swam with his wife\nand child towards the bank but\nthey were both drowned in his\narms on the way. Mr. Fisher\nwas afterwards captured by the\nNana's party and slain at or\nnear Cawnpore. Rev. E. T. R.\nMoncrieff, Chaplain of Cawn-\npore, Mrs. Moncrieff and their\nchild-Mrs. Moncrieff\nkilled in the intrenchments on\nthe ninth day siege.\nwas\nRev. W. H. Heycock, of the\nPropagation Society, Cawnpore\nand Mrs. Heycock his mother,\nboth killed at Cawnpore. Mr.\nHeycock was shot just as he was\nentering the intrenchments.\nRev. H. E. Cockey of the\nPropagation Society, Cawnpore,\nwounded in the thigh by a\nmusket ball and afterwards shot\non the parade ground at Cawn-\npore, together with other\nEuropeans in the presence of the\nNana. Rev. G. W. Copeland,\nChaplain of Gwalior. Killed\non occasion of the mutiny of the\nGwalior contingent.\nRev. H. I. Polohampton,\nChaplain of Lucknow. Shot\nby a musket ball, while attend-\ning on the sick in one of the\nhospitals in the Residency; but\npartially recovering from his\nwound eventually sank from an\nattack of cholera.\nRev. W. Glen, Agra, son of\nthe late Dr. Glen of Persia, and\nformerly missionary of the\nLondon Missionary Society,\nMirzapore, and his infant child.\n-Both died in the fort of Agra\nfrom privations.\nMrs. Buyers, wife of the\nRev. W. Buyers, missionary of\nthe London Missionary Society,\nBenares, died from dysentry,\nbrought on chiefly by anxiety of\nmind induced by the distur-\nbances in Benares.\nIndian Christians\nWillayat Ali, Catechist of the\nBaptist Mission, Delhi. Killed\nby a party of Mohammedans\nin the streets of Delhi, at the\ntime of the outbreak.\nThankoor, Catechist of the\nPropagation Society's Mission,\nDelhi. Killed by troopers in\nthe streets of Delhi.\nDhokul\nParashad, head-\nteacher of the Futtehgur Mis-\nsion Schools, his wife and four\nchildren. All killed in company\nwith the Europeans in the parade\nat Futtehgur. The sepoy first\nfired grape at the party and then\ndespatched the survivors with\ntheir swords.\nParamanad, Catechist of the\nBaptist Mission, Muttra. Killed\nby the rebels.\nSolomon, Catechist of the\nPropagation Society's Mission,\nCawnpore. Cruelly put to\ndeath by the Hindus during the\noccupation of Cawnpore by the\nGwalior contingent.\nH.C.I.-1/2",
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