Hopevale Martyrs

The martyrs were Jennie Clare Adams, Prof. James Howard Covell, Charma Moore Covell, Dorothy Antoinette Dowell, Signe Amelia Erikson, Dr. Frederick Willer Meyer, Ruth Violet (Schatch) Meyer, Dr. Francis Howard Rose, Gertrude Coombs Rose, Rev.

[1] Despite the order that these Americans should go home because of the war, they refused to leave their mission and eventually offered their lives when they were caught by the enemies.

At the dawn of December 20, 1943, the missionaries asked to be allowed to pray and, an hour later, they told their Japanese captors they were ready to die.

No Greater Love; Triumph and Sacrifice of American Baptist Missionaries During WW II Philippines, and the Martyrdom in Hopevale by Elmo D. Familiaran, Ann Qualls and Wilma Rugh Taylor was published in 2007.

The complete Hopevale story is chronicled in The Edge of Terror, by Baptist minister Scott Walker.