death_place death_date children birth_place nationality parents birth_date spouse article_title education name
curaray river , ecuador 8 january 1956 valerie elliot shepard -lrb- 1955 -rrb- portland , oregon , united states american fred elliot clara elliot 8 october 1927 elisabeth 8 , 1953 & ndash ; january 8 , 1956 elliot -rrb- -lrb- née howard -rrb- -lrb- m. october jim elliot
 benson polytechnic h.s. -rrb- jim elliot
jim elliot

philip james `` jim '' elliot -lrb- october 8 , 1927 -- january 8 , 1956 -rrb- was an evangelical christian who was one of five missionaries killed while participating in operation auca , an attempt to evangelize the huaorani people of ecuador .
