History made real

We’ve nearly finished reading Doctor Dolittle which the boys have loved, but tomorrow is the last chapter. In History we’ve been reading about Adoniram and Ann Judson, the first American overseas missionaries. Ann died quite young, and Adoniram remarried, and was widowed again, and then married Sarah, who died at the St Helena port en route to the US in 1845 and was buried on the island. Her tombstone is in front of our Jamestown Baptist Chapel! The inscription was composed by Adoniram himself. Adoniram died five years later, at sea.