page_title: John Williams (missionary)
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: John Williams (missionary) / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: My own photograph taken April 2006 at Abney Park John Williams (missionary) family tomb in Abney Park Cemetery.
context_page_description: John Williams was an English missionary, active in the South Pacific. Born at Tottenham, near London, England, he was trained as a foundry worker and mechanic.
  In September 1816, the London Missionary Society commissioned him as a missionary in a service held at Surrey Chapel, London.
context_section_description: Most of the Williamses' missionary work, and their delivery of a cultural message, was very successful and they became famed in Congregational circles. However, in November 1839, while visiting a part of the New Hebrides where John Williams was unknown, he and fellow missionary James Harris were killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango during an attempt to bring them the Gospel. 
  A memorial stone was erected on the island of Rarotonga in 1839 and is still there. Mrs. Williams died in June 1852.  She is buried with their son Rev Samuel Tamatoa Williams, who was born in the New Hebrides, at the old Cedar Circle in London's Abney Park Cemetery; the name of her husband and the record of his death were placed on the most prominent side of the stone monument.
caption: Memorial to John Williams's wife and son, at the Congregationalists' pioneering nondenominational place of rest, Abney Park Cemetery (April 2006)
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