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South African Mission

Badger, Ralph Ashby

1880 April 8 – 1963 October 6

Cannon, George Mousley, Jr.

1887 May 25 – 1970 February 9

Griffiths, Thomas Lewis

1873 October 6 – 1949 October 18

Lyon, Warren Harvey

1870 May 7 – 1950 August 24

Peterson, Orval Erastus

1871 November 25 – 1954 February 20

Sheffield, Frederick Albert

1880 December 17 – 1937 April 19

Simkins, George Albert

1882 July 30 – 1963 April 9

Smith, William Robert

1852 September 13 – 1920 August 4