Ella Janet Sharrocks, who was called the "Sa Eunra," was born in Joseon in 1900. Sharrock's father, Alfred Sharrocks, and her mother, Mary, came to Korea on September 29, 1899, and wrote several surgical textbooks at the Severance Medical School. After that, the Seoncheon Mission Branch of Pyeonganbuk Presbyterian Church was opened and assigned there. Her parents devoted themselves to Korea as missionaries and later returned to the United States after retirement. She also came to Korea as a nursing missionary after her parents.

Alfred Sharrocks, father of Ella Sharrocks

Sharrocks studied nursing in the United States and became a nurse, and in 1926, she was sent to Korea by the U.S. North Presbyterian Church, where her parents missioned and he was born. She was first deployed to Andong and was the first foreign nurse to be appointed to Andong. In the five years from 1926 to 1930, it cared for about 1,200 inpatients and more than 12,000 dosing patients. In addition, as a member of the missionary branch, she led language classes at female schools and women's gatherings and helped operate the singing class. She contributed to the dissemination of church music in Andong.

Afterwards, she moved to Severance Hospital and appointed the head of the department of teaching at the Severance Midwife Nursing Training Center, and was elected as the chairman of the Joseon Nursing Association in 1933 to promote standardization of nursing education and textbook publishing.

In September 1939, Sharrocks was appointed as the nursing director of Dongsan Christian Hospital and reopened the Ministry of Nursing Training Center, which had been suspended due to the war, and the Infant Health Center in April 1940. She was fluent in Korean, got along well with Koreans, and played an excellent role in guiding students and graduate nurses on new theories and practical applications of modern nursing.

Early Nursing Training Center, 1924

During the Japanese colonial period, she briefly returned to the United States, but in 1947, she was dispatched from the U.S. Department of State as a civilian nursing advisor and worked with Kim On-soon and Jang Bok-soon as nursing education officers of the Ministry of Education.

With a strong belief that the normal development of Korean nursing schools should be within the fence of the administration of liberal arts, she devoted herself as a lifelong nursing missionary because it greatly contributes to the improvement and development of Korean nursing education.

Sharrocks married Gordon Ebison II on February 28, 1960, and her husband was called by God in 1967, seven years after her marriage, and she was called by God in 1982 at the age of 81.

Ella Sharrocks in Old Age