1911 - 1938 Eunice Estella Scott

Eunice Estella Scott  1911 to 1938

“ I grew up in Richland County, Wisconsin… the second child of six children.  We had a happy childhood, helping with farm work and doing chores.  We went to the little country school where my mother was teaching when she fell in love with my father, who was a bachelor farmer living near the school.”  

 Eunice, Theron ( a friend) and Dorothy with baby Edith

                                                        Eunice and her great grand daughter look alike, Abby

“My mother read to us in the evenings.  Dad loved these evenings as much as we children did.  I loved riding the horse when my Dad plowed the corn.”

“We went to the Sunday School in our little country church.  There is where I heard many missionaries speak, and first felt that when I grew up I would be a missionary.  At night I loved to lie out on the lawn and look up at the stars, thinking that sometime I would be looking at those stars from the other side of the world.”

“When I became a country school teacher, I made a real flop of my first year.  I told the Lord, ‘See, I’m not supposed to be a teacher:  I’m supposed to be a missionary.’   In prayer, the Lord suggested to me that if I could not teach, He could not use me as a missionary.   I bargained with Him that if He would help me to get another school, I would really teach.   He did, and I was in that same school for five years, which was the best training I could possibly have had for the mission field.”

         

                  

                                   Mummy with her class

Mummy spent the next few years at Moody

The three years of waiting in India were spent in language study and learning many spiritual lessons, and loving the Jewish people.   John came out during the war which was a real testing time.