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1. Miss Jennie Clare Adams 2. Mr. James Howard Covell 3. Mrs. Charma Moore Covell 4. Miss Dorothy Antoinette Dowell 5. Miss Signe Amelia Erickson |
 Plaque honoring the Hopevale Martyrs located at Central Philippine University, Iloilo, Philippines. |
1. Miss Jennie Clare Adams
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74009945/jennie_clare-adams
Source Article #1: Lincoln Journal Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), Friday, 01 June 1945, pages 1-2.
Source Article #2: The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), Friday, 01 June 1945, page 1.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/224974176/jennie_clare-adams
LEFT: Miss Jennie Clare Adam, missionary nurse for nineteen years on Panay Island, Philippines before she was beheaded by the Japanese in December 1943.
RIGHT: Jennie C. Adams. Source: The Edge of Terror by Scott Walker (St Martin's Press, New York, 2009), page 129. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/224974176/jennie_clare-adams
This cross marks the site where the remains of the Hopevale martyrs were buried near the place they were executed on Panay Island, Philippines.
The inscription reads, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. 2:10".
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/224974176/jennie_clare-adams
Emmanuel Hospital Entrance and Annex - 1930's
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/224974176/jennie_clare-adams
Location of Hopevale on Panay Island, Philippines
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/224974176/jennie_clare-adams
2. Mr. James Howard Covell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182456025/james_howard-covell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182456025/james_howard-covell
3. Mrs. Charma Moore Covell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182456016/charma_marie-covell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182456016/charma_marie-covell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182456016/charma_marie-covell
4. Miss Dorothy Antoinette Dowell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134441330/dorothy_antoinette-dowell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134441330/dorothy_antoinette-dowell
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134441330/dorothy_antoinette-dowell
5. Miss Signe Amelia Erickson
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195836219/signe_amelia-erickson
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195836219/signe_amelia-erickson
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195836219/signe_amelia-erickson
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196944506/donal_paul-rounds
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196944506/donal_paul-rounds
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196944506/donal_paul-rounds
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134220496/fern_elizabeth-clardy
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134220705/john_walsh-clardy
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134220947/terry_mark-clardy
Lt Albert W. King Jr.
Source: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), Saturday, 09 June 1945, page 7.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/224761141/albert_edward_washington-king
Lt Albert W. King Jr.
Source: From the petition request of his mother, Dr. Paz Garcia King for her sister, Rosario Garcia Jimeno, to be allowed to emigrate to the United States from the Philippines. Request made in October, 1950.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/224761141/albert_edward_washington-king
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135299256/frederick_willer-meyer
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135299380/ruth_violet-meyer
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188990560/francis_howard-rose
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188990471/gertrude_hazelton-rose
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Rounds Executed
Source: The Dispatch (Moline, Illinois), Monday, 04 June 1945, page 12.
Erle was bayoneted to death, his parents were beheaded.
NEBRASKA MISSIONARY, 11 OTHERS SLAIN BY JAPANESE
New York. (AP). The American Baptist Foreign Mission society reported Friday that 11 Baptist missionaries and a nine-year old boy were beheaded by the Japanese in 1943 on Panay island in the Philippines.
The executions occurred Dec. 19 or 20, but the society said it had not received permission from the war and state departments until now to make the information public.
Those put to death had fled to a mountain refuge which they named Hopewell, in order to carry on their "preaching, teaching and healing mission" after the Japanese invasion, the society said.
The names of the victims were listed as follows: Miss Jennie C. Adams, nurse, of Page, Neb. James H. Covell, teacher, Athens, Pa., and LeRoy, N.Y. Mrs. Covell. Miss Dorothy A. Dowell, evangelist, Denver, Colo. Miss Signe A. Erickson, teacher, Warren, Pa. Dr. Frederick W. Meyer, physician, New Haven, Conn. Mrs. Meyer Rev. Francis H. Rose, Norwich, Conn., and Lowell, Mass. Mr. Rose Rev. Erle F. Rounds, Eau Claire, Wis., and Richmond, Calif. Mrs. Rounds Erle Douglas Rounds, 9, son of Rev. and Mrs. Rounds The society said the missionaries had escaped the Japanese for two years but finally were betrayed by a captured Filipino guerrilla officer.
Mr. and Mrs. Covell had written at one point, in a letter eventually brought out by a submarine:
"We live in a grass hut with a bamboo floor. The people around supply us with plenty to eat .. The Japanese came very close one day in February, and we have moved out thrice to hide .. "
An official of the society said there was little question that beheading was the form of execution altho one report said the missionaries were "put to death" without specifying the means.
The society plans to publish a memorial booklet to the missionaries in the near future.
 Jennie Clare Adams |
"She would have helped them because that was her life, that was her work, to help others," said Leo T. Adams, who operates the Chambers State bank with his brother Glenn H. Adams.
Friday's Announcement by the American Baptist Foreign Mission society that Miss Adams and 10 others of the missionary group were beheaded on Panay in 1943 was the family's first news of the means used by the Japanese to do away with the Nebraska nurse.
"We were told by the society in March, 1944, that she had been executed, but we were never told how," Leo Adams said.
Miss Adams, who was about 47 when she was killed was a native of Page, Neb. The family, which had operated a bank at Page, moved to Chambers in 1901 and established the Chambers State bank.
She trained at Green Gables hospital at Lincoln, Neb., in 1920, and then took a year's training at Cook county hospital, Chicago. She volunteered for missionary work in the Philippines in 1922.
"Before the Pacific war we heard from her regularly," Leo Adams said. "After she and the others fled from the Japs we heard only once - a letter smuggled out while she was in hiding. She said they had been driven out twice and that their chapel had been burned to the ground. We have no idea how the letter was smuggled out."
(The missionary society in New York said some letters had been smuggled out by submarine.)
"Except for furloughs each four years, Miss Adams had spent 20 years in the Philippines.
