HISTORY OF MISSOURI BAPTISTS Missionaries to Africa: PAYTON A. EUBANK was born in Clark County, Kentucky, January 13, 1857; converted at fourteen; graduated in the full course, with Syriac and German besides, at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in May 1882; moved to Missouri and was finally appointed by Foreign Mission Board to Africa. He was first stationed at Abbeokuta and afterwards to Lagos. He was finally compelled to return to the homeland on account of ill health. LAURA HOUCHENS EUBANK was born in Boone County, Missouri; married P.A. EUBANK in 1882 and sailed with him to Africa, where she shared nobly his toils and labors. CYNTHIA MORRIS was born in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, not far from Farmington; attended the lectures in Louisville Seminary for four seasons; was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board to Africa in 1885; after reaching her destination was married to Rev. C. E. SMITH, with whom she labored until her death in 1889. Norma