Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913, p. 12-13

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Emily Clough Peabody, editor. Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine. Chicago, Illinois, USA: The Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street), 1913. In English. (30 pages). Pages 14-15 include information on Hovhannes Eskijian.

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Title Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913, p. 12-13

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Source 20230913-dadrian-eskijian (batch), Hovhannes Eskijian Archival Materials (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity), Vahakn Dadrian Papers (collection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections (digital); Ararat-Eskijian Museum (physical)

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

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Content rission granted her request, and accompanied by Miss Mel-
linger, a new missionary just getting the language, arrived
in Oorfa in October, and began at once the usual work in
Sunday School, day school and friendly visitation

Early in 1895 rumors of the political troubles reached
Corfa, Massacres in the Moosh eountry drove thousands of
refugees into the hills about the ety where they were stricken
down with fever. Miss. Mellinger, while caring for some
of them, contracted the dizease, made a remarkable recovery
and went to Smyrna to recuperate, leaving Miss Shattuck
alone, except for her native helpers.

In October the city was devastated by a mob, hundreds
fof shops being demolished, houses sacked and about sixty
people killed. Soldiers were stationed about the Christian
part ofthe city as guards, and none dared go into the Moslem
quarter or beyond the walls. ‘The Christians were obliged
to give up ther firearms and then forced to open their shops
and resume business. For a few weeks all was quiet, but
the restlessness of the Moslems suggested another uprising.
Miss Shattuck now made every effort to remove her house-
hold to Aintab hut was not able to secure the necessary
traveling permit from the government. She writes at this
tines "No prt yet canna ve Tac in pce
the will of God and remain, He knows what He has
planned for me.” cae

‘On Saturday morning, December 28th, one hour after
the long-waited-for permit was granted, the anticipated attack
came, Miss Shattuck herself must tell the story. From
Saturday morning until Sunday night “innumerable crowds
‘of Moslem residents, joined by Kourds from the villages
and assisted by the soldiers, went about entering the homes,
ferreting out its hidden men and butchering them ike 50

a)

many sheep. Women and children were unmolested unless
they tried to protect the men. Later, the women and chil-
dren were removed from the homes and taken in crowds t0
Khan, Mosque or Moslem homes, while the houses were
robbed of everything, even doors and shutters. All the
while this work was going on we were carefully protected,
rnilitary officials frequently sending me salaams and im-
ploring that I ‘be not disturbed.’ One guard stood outside
ny street door calling, ‘This is the house of a foreigner; it
ie not permitted to enter here.’ Neighbors rushed in pell-
nell over our walls, our guards shouting that they must not
tome, and our servant trying to keep them out, But it was
impossible to stop them, and by Saturday night I found
in my private rooms, the kitchen, the

they were everywhere
stable, anywhere to be under my shadow.

“Poor things! What was I to do? I need not say I
slept none that night. I devised a plan, submitted it to a
few of the most reliable men, entreated and persuaded them
to go to the school-room of the Protestant church, and in a
few hours Thad all the men off my premises, hidden and
tunder lock, the key with myself, and supplied with bread
find water for twenty-four hours. It was a heavy responsi-
bility I carried, but less risk than to retain them in my
home. Sunday afternoon martial music was heard and a
rand procession of military and civil officers appeared view.
ing the streets and homes. ‘They requested entrance £0 oUF
yard and asked that I appear on the veranda, Salaams were
then offered and they begged that I would not be disturbed.
Peering into windows, they inquired if we had men here.
We could honestly say ‘No, only women and children.’ All
day there was the smell of burning wool and cotton in the
houses fired, and later the sickening odors from the great

Ey

Inherited Values

Title Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913 [cover]

Alternative Title Hayasdani Gotchnag 1941 (supplied title)

Description Emily Clough Peabody, editor. Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine. Chicago, Illinois, USA: The Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street), 1913. In English. (30 pages). Pages 14-15 include information on Hovhannes Eskijian.

Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Shattuck, Corinna (personal name)

Coverage Spatial 19 South La Salle Street (roadways), Chicago (cities), Illinois (states), North America (continents), USA (countries)

Inherited Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Shattuck, Corinna (personal name)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections (digital); Ararat-Eskijian Museum (physical)

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

Rights Elmajian, E.E.; Peabody, Emily Clough; Shattuck, Corinna; The Gotchnag; Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior

Creator Elmajian, E.E. (writer), Peabody, Emily Clough (editor), Shattuck, Corinna (writer)

Contributor Ararat-Eskijian Museum (donor)

Publisher Hayaskani Gotchnag (original), The Gotchnag (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital), Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA) (original), Հայասդանի Գոթչնակ (original)

Date Issued 1913, 1941-05-03

Type texts