Williams, Ruth Dickey Papers

File

Identifier: MP-025

Staff Only

Content Description

Personal papers of Ruth Dickey Williams from her time as a missionary in Africa

Dates

Creation: 1909-1990

Language of Materials

Materials in the collection are in English, Kikongo and KiTubeta

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

Biographical / Historical

Ruth Dickey was born in Wollaston, Massachusetts. After completing public school and beginning teacher preparation at Farmington Normal School in Maine, she enrolled at Gordon College and learned of the need for teachers in Africa. After several years of teaching and student work, she recieved appointment to Sona Bata in 1930. She served at Sona Bata, Moanza, and at Banza Manteke Misson at Nsona Mpangu. She served from 1930 to 1949, when she retired from service. She then returned to public school teaching. She married George J. Williams in 1965.

Extent

.2 Linear Feet (1 half letter manuscript box)

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Ruth Dickey Williams, 1982

Related Materials

See also American Baptist Foreign Mission Society: Missionary Correspondence, filed under Dickey

File Plan

Folder 1: Correspondence Letters and Photographs 1990

Books and periodicals: Congo Mission News 1956, 1965, 1967-1968; New Testament in Kitubalong; Kikongo French dictionary; Autographed Dictionary from P.G. MacDiarmid, 1909; Luwawanu Yampa, 1950