Foochow Mission Cemetery

Foochow Mission Cemetery
Foochow Mission Cemetery, by G. E. Morrison
Details
Established	1847
Location	Cangshan District, Fuzhou
Country	China
Coordinates	26.04230°N 119.31326°E / 26.04230; 119.31326
Type	Foreign residents (no longer extant)
Size	2 square kilometres (490 acres)
No. of graves	400

Foochow Mission Cemetery (Chinese: 洋墓亭; pinyin: Yángmùtíng; Foochow Romanized: Iòng-muó-dìng) was a Protestant cemetery once located on the north and south side of a hill at the west end of Maiyuan Road, Cangshan District, Fuzhou, China. Covering an area of about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi), Foochow Mission Cemetery had been the burial ground for the Western Protestant missionaries, medical practitioners and consuls who died in Fuzhou (then known as Foochow) since the founding of the Mission in 1847. Until 1949 there were more than 400 burials, with all tombs 2 by 1 metre (6 ft 7 in by 3 ft 3 in) in size and neatly aligned. The cemetery was demolished during the Cultural Revolution.

Notable interments

• Carl Joseph Fast
• Charles Hartwell
• Nathan Sites
• Robert Warren Stewart
• Isaac William Wiley

Gallery

• 
  Illustration of Foochow Mission Cemetery, ca. 1858, by Erastus Wentworth
• 
  Tomb of Nathan Sites
• 
  Tomb of Robert Warren Stewart and other victims of Kucheng Massacre
• 
  Tomb of Charles Hartwell
• 
  American Cemetery

References

• Fuzhou City Records (in Chinese)

External links

• The Mission Cemetery of Fuh-Chau, by I.W. Wiley, 1858