Charlotte Diggs "Lottie" Moon

Teacher, Writer, Missionary

Born: 12-12-1840, Albermarle Co., VA Died: 12-24-1912, Kobe, Japan Buried: Crewe, VA A pioneer in the field of missionary service, Moon came to Cartersville in 1871, when the mission field was still closed to single women, to open and operate a school for girls. In 1873, Moon received appointment as a missionary, and left from the First Baptist Church in Cartersville to mission in China. Today, the Women's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church in Cartersville, which organized on Moon's behalf, is the oldest Baptist Women's Missionary Society in Georgia. The church's "Lottie Moon Room" and two monuments erected in town commemorate Moon's brief sojourn through Bartow County.

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