HISTORY OF MISSOURI BAPTISTS 1934 Missionaries to Mexico Page 348 Miss IDA HAYES was born in Boone County, Missouri; graduated from Lexington Female College; taught in Stephens College; served as missionary to Mexico from 1893 to 1898, under appointment of Foreign Mission Board. Is now engaged in most efficient mission work in Porto Rico. JOHN S. CHEAVENS was born in Callaway County, Missouri, February 4, 1868; he was converted and joined the New Salem Baptist Church, Boone County, Missouri, in September 1888; entered William Jewell College as a ministerial student in January 1889, from which he graduated June 1894. He entered the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in October of the same year, and graduated therefrom in June 1897; appointed to Mexico, November 4, 1898, by the Foreign Mission Board. After spending a few months in Torreon, studying the language, he went to Saltillo. There he remained four years during which time he was editor of the Expositor Biblico, the Sunday School periodical for Mexican Baptists. Three years ago he took charge of the Theological Institute at Torreon, where he is doing a good work. Mrs KATHERINE HERNDON CHEAVENS was born in Platte County, Missouri, November 29, 1870; was converted and joined the Parkville, Missouri, Baptist Church, June 1893; attended Park College from which she graduated in 1894; married JOHN S. CHEAVENS in October 1897, and accompanied him to Mexico. J. EDGAR DAVIS was born at Lone Jack, Jackson County, Missouri, March 22, 1873; was converted July 4, 1886, and united with the Greenton Baptist Church in Lafayette County. In 1890 he was licensed to preach and entered William Jewell College, from which he graduated in 1899. He held successful pastorates at Richmond and Moberly. On July 5, 1904, he was appointed to Mexico by the Foreign Mission Board, where he as ever since labored. MARY GAMBLE DAVIS was born in Tazewell, Virginia, November 18, 1873; was converted at the age of fourteen; married J. E. DAVIS in 1894, and accompanied him to Mexico. Norma