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East Africa by Ida May Misener.
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[bewteen 1960-1963] (Authorship)
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Beulah Misener was a missionary to Kenya. She was born April 8, 1925 to Harley Anson and Ida May (nee Lemon) Misener in Troy, Ontario. She married the Rev. Ross Alloway in Oshawa, Ontario on June 11, 1949. In November 1954 the couple left for Africa to serve as missionaries to the Kipsigis tribe for the Africa Inland Mission. They served first at Litein Station in Western Kenya, 20 miles from Kericho, moving 30 miles to Sitotwet in 1958. Two of their three children were born in Africa. On February 8th, 1960, two weeks before her intended return to Canada, Beulah Alloway died of what is described in the fonds as "cerebral malaria". She was buried in Kisumu, Kenya and memorialized on the Misener family headstone at the Troy Cemetery.
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Two-page typescript by Ida May Misener, Beulah's mother, titled "East Africa" with marginalia by Misener. Includes geographic and demographic information about Kenya and makes reference to Kenya's impending independence, as well as various Kenyan peoples including the Kipsigis, the Maasai, the Suk and the Turkana. There is also reference to the integration of a school system attended by Sharon, John and Philip [Alloway] with fees that "are more than most African families can afford," the building of roads, the death of Beulah Alloway, and Black people who had never seen a white person before.
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Clipping of a typescript prayer sent by Beulah pasted to the bottom of the second page.
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Scanned as TIF file September 2021.
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Date based on references to Beulah Alloway's death and Kenyan independence.
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Blue pen note on verso of second page: "Left Canada Nov. 24/1954 for Africa"
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