Source: History of Boone County, Indiana, by Hon. L.M. Crist, 1914.

EDNA ANNA CHILSON Edna Anna Chilson (nee Hill), was born October 10, 1881, on
a farm one mile northwest of Thorntown, Indiana. She attended school at Sugar Plain and
graduated from Thorntown high school in the year 1901. She had a birthright
membership in the Friends church. In May of 1901 she moved, with her parents, to
Guthrie, Oklahoma. She was always of a religious turn of mind and during a revival
service in Guthrie she received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and dedicated her life to
missionary service in Africa. She soon afterward entered the Friends Bible Training
School at Cleveland, Ohio, to prepare for the work. Here she met Arthur B. Chilson, to
whom she was married on March 6, 1906. In April they sailed for Africa to engage in the
service of the Master in the spread of the gospel in Dark Kavirondo, where they have
since resided. To this union two daughters were born, Esther, who is now six years old,
and Rachel, who is four years old. In 1912, both she and her husband being in broken
health from strenuous overwork, they returned to this country on a furlough and have
spent the time visiting yearly meetings in most of the various states, and they have
aroused a deep interest in missions in general and Africa in particular. The response to
appeals for funds has been twenty-two thousand dollars in cash and subscriptions for
Africa. Colonel Roosevelt visited their mission while on his African tour.

Mr. and Mrs. Chilson and daughters, in September, 1914, started on their return trip to
Africa, that they might continue their good work.

CHILSON HILL

Submitted by Amy K Davis