The Smiths and a group of Chinese preachers pose for a portrait on a stone wall overlooking a hillside. Grace W. Thomas Smith is standing on the far left and is holding an umbrella. The Rev. Edward Huntington Smith is standing on the far right at the edge of the wall. The photograph was taken in February of 1902. The name of the location, "Ing Hok", inscribed at the top of the picture, is also known as "Ing Tai". The Smiths were a family of Congregational missionaries in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow [Fuzhou]. Edward Huntington Smith devoted nearly 50 years of his life to running an orphanage, raising funds, and promoting Christian education in Ing Tai, Fukien [Fujian], China. His wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith served as a Kindergarten teacher in the United States and China.
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