Missionary Introduction

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  • Nell Johnson Null

  • Year of Birth : 1876 – May 11, 1934.
  • Background and affiliation : Northern Presbyterian U.S.A.(NP)
  • Period of mission work in Korea : September 27, 1903 - October 7, 1907.
  • Period of mission work at Dongsan Hospital : September 27, 1903 - October 7, 1907.
  • Family details : Marion Michael Null(husband)
  • Robert and Howard Null(two sons)
1. Nell Johnson Null helps her husband on medical mission in Jejungwon

Nell Johnson Null was born in 1876 in Indiana, the United States, and married Marion Michael Null in 1903. Upon marriage, she came to Joseon with her husband as a medical missionary at the Northern Presbyterian U.S.A.

As a doctor, Null served as a medical missionary with her husband at the mission hospital in Daegu, where Johnson and his wife had left. And in 1907, due to deterioration of health due to overwork, she moved to Cheongju with his husband.

On October 7, 1907, she resigned as a missionary and return to one's homeland country with her husband, and on March 11, 1934, at the age of 58, she was buried on the right side of his husband Marianne at Forest Ron Memorial Park.

Nell Johnson Null's Tombstone