Tribute toa Well Known Shanghai Figure The old residents who Inia the foundation for Shanghai are one by lone passing away: until only a few are left, For many reasons Mrs. Annie Yates Seaman who died on August 15 at La Jolla, California, should She was the only child of Dr. and Mrs, M. T. Yates, missionaries of the Southern" Baptist Convention 30 in 1847 came to Shanghai when it was still largely a mud flat. Her parents, as is well known, while busy with their mission work, were much interested in the development ofthe young and growing Shang-
She was married to Mr, J. P.
Seaman, who wns originally con nected with Messrs. Olyphant Ca. and later was'one of the fond: and Was a well known resident in "Shanghai for more than 40 years.
Throughout the whole of her life in Shanghai she maintained her interest in the work begun by her parents and helped in its support, contributing generously to Shanghai College and to the erection of anew church on the corner of Rue Tourane and Boulevard des "deux Republiques.
She did not confine her gifts, however, to the mission work of her own church, but gave a large sum to St. John's University for' the erection of Seaman Hall as a memorial to +her husband, She was really to Help every (ood cause in Shutighai and was a Supporter'of the Children's Refuge, the Foreign Wortien's Home, an other charitable institutions, Many of the business and missionary community will remember her as a charming *hostess, and will recall the warm hearted hospitality extended by Mr. and Mrs, Sea-aman in their home on 2 Yates Road.
Her last years were spent in the Urited States where she had the companionship and caro of her adopted daughter, Miss J. G, Seaman, Until the death of her hus-bund, she resided in Poughkeepsie, where Mr. Seaman had bought " large estate, Later she moved to La Lolla, California, on account of its milder climate, She was buried by the side of her essband in Woodlawn Cemetery in It is_eminently fitting that a tribute should be paid to the me-mary of those who in the past did 80 much for the fife and growth of Shanghai,
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