Ellen Huntly Bullard Mason

Ellen Huntly Bullard Mason (12 January 1817 – 3 August 1894) was an American Baptist foreign missionary and writer.

In early youth, she was the companion of her father, "Elder" Huntly, in his visits through his parish in the hilly districts of Northern Vermont and New Hampshire, and the adjacent parts of southern Canada.

She gave all her spare time to reading, and saved towards buying fresh books, and paying for her wished-for schooling.

Sufficient money had now been saved to send her to a boarding-school, and here she worked hard, dividing her time between learning and teaching, and always keeping the thought of Burma in her mind.

Edwin Bullard, and they sailed for Burma in 1843 to take up their life-work of proclaiming the Christian Faith to dying souls.

[5] There, she met Dr. Francis Mason -she had read of his work as a young woman- who had been left a widower with a large family.

[5] Mason made a long journey from Burma to America to evangelize Christian women to go and teach the Karens.