Susan Ida Kurtz

     Susan Ida Kurtz was born on 31 March 1867 at Warrensville, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.² She was the daughter of Isaak Kurz and Katharina Miller.³ Susan Ida Kurtz married, at age 36, Edward Eugene Silliman, age 45, son of Robert Alexander Silliman and Lucretia Caroline Powell, on Wednesday, 29 July 1903 at Secunderbad, India.⁴ Susan Ida Kurtz died on 6 February 1960 at Alhambra, Los Angeles County, California, at age 92 years, 10 months and 4 days.² She was buried in the Glen Abbey Cemetery, located in San Diego County, California.²
     She attended Bucknell College and then Newton Center Seminary. She was appointed as a missionary by the American Baptist Women’s Foreign Mission Society to go to India. She sailed from Boston in 1892. She served 7 and a half not very happy years because of the domineering personality of the woman she lived with in a station near Madras, India.² She sailed for India a second time in 1901 again as a missionary to Secunderbad, India where she was in charge of a school. She was married in Secunderbad but then move to her husband’s station at Narsaravupet, India. She retired in 1927.²