2.  Collection of Diaries from the following years:

     a.  1888-1889

     b.  1890

     c.  September 1900 - June 1903

     d.  July 1 - December 31, 1903

     e.  1905

      f.  1906

     g.  1907

     h.  1909

     i.   Beginning January 1, 1910

     j.    Beginning October 6, 1910

     k.  1945

     l.   1946

     m. 1947

3.  Diskette and transcript of five diaries.

Alice King was born in Laketon, Indiana.  Alice attended Moody Bible Institute, Mt. Morris College, Manchester College (1895-97) and the University of Chicago. She taught Bible courses at Manchester College, 1896ff and married one of her students, Adam Ebey, in 1900.  After marriage she served in educational and evangelistic work in India, 1900-31.  She returned to India for a two year period of service, 1945-47.  

Following is background on the diaries written by Janice Shull, the granddaughter of Alice King Ebey.  Alice's oldest surviving daughter, Lois Catherine, is Janice's mother.  Alice's youngest daughter's name is Leah Ruth. 

I will give you a little background on the diaries.  Alice King Ebey and Adam Ebey, both MC graduates, were missionaries in India for 31 years, from1900-1931.  Alice made a daily record of their activities in India, and many of those diaries ended up in a large trunk in my parents’ basement after my grandmother died in 1960.  There are some missing years—we don’t know if she failed to keep a diary then (unlikely) or if those diaries vanished in all of their travels.  Twenty-five years ago I acquired the diaries from my mother and began to transcribe them, first by hand and then into computer files.  Motherhood and a full-time job slowed down my progress but eventually I completed all of the existing diaries.  Since I had the electronic version, I decided that the original diaries would be better off in the controlled environment of an archives facility.  My mother agreed with me and we first offered them to the Allen County Public Library.  They did not feel that they fit their collection, and Mother and I then contacted Ferne Baldwin at Manchester, who was very eager to have them. -----

The typed record “Births, Marriage, Deaths, Miscellaneous, Grandchildren” was a transcription of a hand-written document which Alice King Ebey wrote in 1944 before she returned to India for 2 years.  Four grandchildren, including me, were born after 1944.  It is not a complete family record, as you have already discovered.  I think it was included with the diaries because it clarified the names and dates of the six Ebey children who died.

witten by Janice Shull