TAYLOR PROFILES IN COURAGE

Eliza Davis George: Texas’ first missionary to Liberia

As a young girl growing up during the 1940s and 50s in Taylor, Leslie Hill remembers how important it was whenever the late Eliza Davis George would visit and share her testimony at Zion Chapel Baptist Church.

“Whenever Mother George came to town, we had to go,” Hill said of Texas’ first missionary to Liberia, who spent more than six decades in the West African nation. “Every two years, there would always be a big gathering or a program for her, and she would speak. She just seemed like she was a happy lady all the time, and she always had stories to tell that would lift our spirits.”