Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham

Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham (February 23, 1831 – June 27, 1911) was an American missionary and church worker of the long nineteenth century. For 30 years, she served as president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Nashville, Tennessee. She was also editor of leaflets and a Sunday school teacher. While in China, having learned the Chinese language, she also translated tracts and small books into the local dialect.

Early life and education Elizabeth King H. Litchfield (nickname "Betty" or "Bettie") was born in Abingdon, Virginia, February 23, 1831. Her parents, George Victor Litchfield (1796–1875) and Rachael Davis (Mitchell) Litchfield (1804–1874), Burial was at that city's Mount Olivet Cemetery.