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Voyage to the rock – read an account
Archaeology of Christianity in Vanuatu (including map of the last day of Williams
From Wikipedia:
Most of the Williamses’ missionary work, and their delivery of a cultural message, was very successful and they became famed in Congregational circles. However, in November 1839, while visiting a part of the New Hebrides where John Williams was unknown, he and fellow missionary James Harris were killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango during an attempt to bring them the Gospel.
A memorial stone was erected on the island of Rarotonga in 1839 and is still there. Mrs. Williams died in June 1852. She is buried with their son Rev Samuel Tamatoa Williams, who was born in the New Hebrides, at the old Cedar Circle in London’s Abney Park Cemetery; the name of her husband and the record of his death were placed on the most prominent side of the stone monument.[5] John Williams’ remains (bones) were shipped and are buried in Apia, Samoa. A monument was erected in front of the LMS church of Apia, and the six-storey headquarters of the Congregational Church of Samoa is named after John Williams, commemorating his work in the Samoan islands.
Image Credit: “Graves on Erromango, Vanuatu, 1903.” Calisphere, calisphere.org/item/b78ba992598863caa23b98deb83aa1c7.
