(15 Feb. 1868-29 July 1894), missionary. (Tena Scott) Born at her parents’ home, Mount Joy farm, GC, about four miles east of Martintown. Parents: William Scott and his wife Mary Hamilton. She attended Williamstown High School, and taught school 1887-1888 in Lancaster village. In Jan. 1890, she and her sister Margaret Scott sailed from Vancouver to become missionaries in China. Tena Scott died four years later in China of typhoid fever. Her sister Margaret had, by this time, returned to Canada and died there. Tena Scott is buried “at the foot of a mountain in China.” She was the sister of Rev. A.H. Scott. She was not married. Another missionary, Janet McKillican, writing to her family from Peking on Christmas Day, 1890, mentioned getting “very nice kind letters” from the Scott sisters, with their photos, and Gertrude Wood, in the final quarter of the twentieth century, remembered from her far-off childhood the Scott sisters eating a meal at her family home on their way to China.

Hartley 69-75 (portrait) * MacMillan, Kirk: index * Scott, Ten Years * Ross, Lancaster, 212 * her mother’s obituary (undated clipping), WSC 12 (QF) * Miss Maggie H. Scott and Miss Tena Scott are expected to leave for China as missionaries, meeting at church to bid farewell to them, departure for China and arrival in China, Glengarrian 13 Dec. 1889 & (Martintown column) 3 Jan. 1890, Cornwall Freeholder 3 Jan. 1890 cited DTL Standard Freeholder 31 Dec. 1948, Glengarrian 7 March 1890 * Wood letter 19 March 1977