"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 429-430.
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

MISS JULIA McKENZIE:  Miss Julia McKenzie was the first person to go 
to a Foreign Mission field from the Daviess County Baptist 
Association.  The crowning glory of her useful life was that she 
served for more than twenty years as a missionary of the Foreign 
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in the Republic of 
China.
	Miss McKenzie was born at Hardinsville, Boone County, Kentucky, 
on September 4, 1863, and was the daughter of Dr. D. W. and Sarah 
McKenzie, her father being one of the noted physicians of the State 
at that time.  Her education was of the best and at about the age of 
thirty she came to Owensboro, Kentucky, and secured a position as 
stenographer and bookkeeper for the F. A. Ames Company.  She quickly 
proved herself so wonderfully efficient that she soon became the 
confidential friend and adviser for the whole concern.
	She was not a professing Christian at this time, nevertheless, 
she attended the services at the First Baptist Church, of which Dr. 
Fred D. Hale was pastor.  Although she was intensely fond of dancing, 
she always said that she was converted as a result of listening to 
one of Fred Hale's characteristic dancing sermons.  After uniting 
with the First Baptist Church she organized a large class of boys in 
the Sunday School and began active work in the Church.
	It was not long after her conversion until she felt called of 
the Lord to dedicate her life to Him as a missionary.  Mr. Ames and 
the other heads of the concern for whom she was working offered her a 
much larger salary if she would only remain with them.  They also 
told her that she was too frail and would die in heathen lands, away 
from home and friends.  It was all to no avail.  When her employer 
saw that she was determined to go, they gave her several hundred 
dollars and a gold watch toward her equipment.  On the recommendation 
of her Church she received an appointment from the Foreign Mission 
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention to work in China.  She 
sailed on October 30, 1894.
	For some time after her arrival in China she was connected with 
the work in Chinkiang [sic].  Sometime about the year 1903 she was 
transferred to Yangchow, where, in 1905, she opened the Yangchow 
Girls Academy.  This school is still functioning and is known as the 
Julia McKenzie Memorial School.  Her work was primarily among the 
women and girls and she succeeded to an eminent degree in this work 
in spite of many trying circumstances.  Her deep interest in and her 
ability in the use of the Bible was one of her greatest assets.  She 
maintained a women's Bible Class in connection with her school work 
for many years.  Miss Catherine Bryan and Miss Mary Moorman were her 
associates for some time.
	During her stay in China she made one or two trips home on 
furlough.  Largely through her devotion and enthusiasm, she did more 
perhaps than anyone else to create a great missionary spirit among 
the Churches of this Association.  This will account no doubt for the 
fact that this Association has been among the leading Associations of 
the State in its gifts to missions throughout the years.
     As has been previously stated, Miss McKenzie went out as a 
missionary from the First Baptist Church.  When the Church divided 
over the liquor question, in 1896, and the pastor and others went out 
to organize the Third Baptist Church she moved her membership to this 
Church and immediately was supported by them until the close of her 
labors in China.
	Several years before her death her health began to fail.  In 
the fall of 1915 she suffered a nervous collapse from which she never 
fully recovered.  The Mission Board soon ordered her to return to 
America.  She sailed from Hongkong, China, for San Francisco, 
California, on March 17, 1916, and arrived in Owensboro, Kentucky, 
on May 9th.  Upon her arrival she was taken to the city hospital 
where she was given the best of medical attention.  She had become so 
weakened that no aid could be rendered other than to afford temporary 
relief.  Finally, on September 14, 1916, she succumbed to a 
complication of diseases brought on by her strenuous work, self-
denial, and consecrated devotion to her Master and Lord.
	Her funeral was conducted from the Third Baptist Church by the 
pastor, Rev. Sam P. Martin, assisted by Revs.  E. E. Bomar and R. F. 
Doll, pastors of the First and Walnut Street Churches respectively.  
She was laid to rest in the Rose Hill Cemetery where an imposing 
monument marks her last resting place.  The Chinese students who come 
to this country from Yangchow have invariably had a great desire to 
visit her grave and have done so when opportunity afforded.
	Besides being such a splendid Bible scholar, Miss McKenzie knew 
a great deal about medicine and household arts.  These were great 
assets to her work among the women.  She was also a brilliant 
conversationalist, and might have made a name for herself along.  
literary lines; but her all was devoted untiringly to the cause of 
the Lord Jesus Christ.  "She being dead yet speaketh" in inspiring 
the young men and young women of this Association to consecrate 
themselves to the cause of Christ.  None can read her unselfish life 
without being vitally impressed.

McKenzie Hale Ames Bryan Moorman Martin Bomar Doll
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Boone China


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