Loy Connell Smith and Eunice Andrews Smith Bland papers, 1958-1999

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Summary

Creator:
Bland, Eunice Andrews Smith, 1928-
Abstract:
Dr. Loy Connell Smith (1925-1968) and his wife, Eunice Andrews Smith (b. 1928), were Southern Baptist missionaries to Nigeria from 1959 through 1968. Collection includes family correspondence, photographs, hospital publications, and audiovisual material from the Smith family's time as missionaries in Nigeria. Contains information about the death of Dr. Loy Connell Smith in a car accident and the Smith family's subsequent return to the United States.
Extent:
2.5 Linear Feet
1875 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.10009

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes family correspondence, photographs, audiovisual tapes and reels, and materials collected by the Smiths regarding their work at the Baptist Hospital. Correspondence has been sorted chronologically by year. Letters between Eunice Andrews Smith and her mother, Annie Wells Andrews, are restricted for 10 years (until 2022). More information about the history of the family can be found in the biographical and background files in Box 1.

The collection also contains a significant amount of information surrounding the Smiths' car accident and Dr. L.C. Smith's death in 1968. Materials on this event include correspondence, records and films of his funeral and memorial services, and materials about memorial funds and plaques in honor of Dr. Smith's service.

Biographical / historical:

Loy Connell Smith (b. 1925) and Eunice Andrews Smith (b. 1928) were originally from North Carolina and married in 1949. They were appointed as missionaries to Nigeria by the Southern Baptist Foreign Missions Board in 1958, and after a year of seminary, moved to Ogbomosho, Nigeria, where they worked in medicine. Dr. L.C. Smith worked as a staff physician at the Baptist Hospital, while Eunice Smith taught nursing and worked in the mission's medical laboratory. The couple had three children.

On May 16, 1968, a car accident in Nigeria killed Dr. L.C. Smith and severely injured Eunice. The family buried him in Ogbomosho. In August, Eunice and the children returned to the United States where she worked at the Foreign Mission Board's Africa Office. She married Dr. Thomas A. Bland in 1979. Dr. Bland died in 2010.

Acquisition information:
The Loy Connell Smith and Eunice Andrews Smith Bland Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2012.
Processing information:

Processed by Elisabeth Narkin, Meghan Lyon, January 2013

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, January 2013

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2012-0257

Materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

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Subjects

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Subjects:
Married people in missionary work -- Africa
Missions -- Africa
Missions -- Nigeria -- History
Baptists -- Missions -- Nigeria
Format:
Audiovisual materials
Names:
Southern Baptist Convention. Foreign Mission Board
Smith, Loy Connell, 1925-1968
Bland, Eunice Andrews Smith, 1928-
Places:
Nigeria -- History -- 20th century

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RESTRICTED: Box 3 contains original audiovisual materials.

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