Person ID: I1167579579
Sophia Amanda Dale
21 JUL 1858 – 13 MAY 1930
Female
Events
- Born
- 21 JUL 1858 — Pleasant Hill, McLean, Illinois, United States
- Died
- 13 MAY 1930 — Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States
Family
Family group sheet →Married: 26 APR 1883 — Sao Paolo, Brazil
- FatherJames Theodore Houston24 JAN 1847 – 21 JUN 1929
- MotherSophia Amanda Dale21 JUL 1858 – 13 MAY 1930
- ChildNorma Christine Houston14 AUG 1897 – 2 APR 1998
Notes
- Sophia was only 13 when her parents died of pneumonia, within 3 days of each other. Also dying was her older sister, Lidia Emma. Sophia went to live with her oldest sister, Martha, who had married the Rev. Robert Lenington and gone to Brazil a s Presbyterian missionaries. They were pioneers to Brazil in 1868. This determined Sophia to become a missionary, also. She returned to the U. S. to work her way through college, graduating from the Univ. of Illinois with her teaching credent ials. Heeding the call of the church, and eager to rejoin her sister, Sophia was assigned to teach in the girls' school (later McKenzie University), in Sao Paolo, Brazil, where she met and married the Reverend James Theodore Houston.