John Livingston Nevius (1829 - 1893)

Born 4 Mar 1829 in Seneca, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Helen Sanford (Coan) Nevius — married 15 Jun 1853 in Ovid, Seneca, New York, United States

Died 19 Oct 1893 at age 64 in Chefoo, Yantai Shi, Shandong, China

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Biography

John Livingston Nevius was born on March 4, 1829, in Ovid, New York, to Benjamin Hegeman Nevius and Mary Denton. He married Helen Sanford Coan on June 15, 1853, in Ovid, New York. He died on October 19, 1893, in Yantai, Shandong, China and was buried in Chefoo Temple Hill Cemetery, Yantai, Shandong, China.

The Ovid Bee, Wednesday, June 15, 1853
Married.
At the Hermitage, Ovid, on the morning of the 15th inst., by Rev. A. B. Dunlap, Rev. John L. Nevius, Missionary to Ningpo, China, and Helen Sandford, daughter of Dr. C. C. Coan.

The Ovid Independent, Wednesday, March 15, 1882
Reveille: Mrs. Helen Nevius, wife of Rev. John L. Nevius, D. D., and daughter of the late Dr. C. C. Coan, is well know[n], as is also Dr. Nevius, as a missionary and an author. Mrs. Nevius’ “Our Life in China,” and Dr. Nevius’ “China and the Chinese,” are published by Harper & Bros., and deserve a wide circulation.

Farmer Review, Farmer [Interlaken], N. Y., Saturday, December 2, 1893
REV. DR. NEVIUS DEAD.
HE DIED VERY SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME IN CHINA.
News has just been received at Ovid of the death of Rev. John L. Nevius, D. D., which occurred at his home in Cheefoo, China, October 19th. The information came from missionary headquarters in New York, no news having arrived from Mrs. Nevius. The letter says:

“He attended prayers with his family and with the Chinese who were accustomed to gather there each morning for devotions, and sat talking with his physician when about 10.30 A. M. he rose up and said to his doctor ‘come up stairs,’ but he himself fell immediately and died in less than five minutes. He had been planning to start in a day or two for a journey into the interior to attend the missionary meeting, expecting to travel about two hundred miles with his wheelbarrow, and this shows he considered himself fairly well. He had at prayers read from I Thessalonians 2:10-20, and expounded it to his Chinese spiritual children. – This seems a wonderfully appropriate farewell message for him to have given them ere he was translated to the world above.”

Rev. Dr. Nevius was born March 4, 1829, and had spent 40 years as a missionary in China, having first sailed for that country Sept. 19th, 1853. His wife was a daughter of the late Dr. C. C. Coan of Ovid.

Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Livingstone_Nevius

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119778090/john-livingston-nevius: accessed 06 November 2022), memorial page for Rev John Livingston Nevius (4 Mar 1829–19 Oct 1893), Find A Grave: Memorial #119778090, citing Chefoo Temple Hill Cemetery, Yantai, Shandong, China; Maintained by Debbie K (contributor 48126280) .

• https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/6285674:2203?ssrc=pt&tid=106663546&pid=140163433929. Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Name: Reverend John Livingston Nevius Publication Year: 1925, School Name: Kappa Alpha

• https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/183821:2207?ssrc=pt&tid=106663546&pid=140163433929. Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1924 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Name: John Livingston Nevius, Publication Year: 1908, Publication State: New Jersey, School Name: Princeton University, Title: General catalogue of Princeton University, 1746-1906.

• https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89069607067&view=1up&seq=199&skin=2021. Joannes Nevius: Schepen and Third Secretary of New Amsterdam Under the Dutch, First Secretary of New York City Under the English, and His Descendants, A.D. 1627-1900 ... Volume 2 of Joannes Nevius: Schepen and Third Secretary of New Amsterdam Under the Dutch, First Secretary of New York City Under the English, and His Descendants, A.D. 1627-1900, Abraham Van Doren Honeyman; 1900.Page 441 Item 1080

• Wylie, Alexander Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese (American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai, China, 1867), pages 224 - 226

• Rev. Nevius's book: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.181843