Dec. 20, 1943. Eleven Baptist missionaries were captured and executed by the Japanese in the Philippines. The missionaries had been in hiding since the beginning of the war, supported by the local people. They created chapel they called Hopevale. Known as the Hopevale Martyrs, Jeannie Clare Adams, James “Jimmy” Howard Covell and his wife Charma Covell, Dorothy Antionette Dowell, Signe Amelia Erickson, Frederick Meyer and his wife Ruth Meyer, Francis Rose and his wife Gertrude Rose, Erle Rounds and his wife Louise Rounds, and finally Erle Douglas, the Rounds’ son, are remembered for their bravery and faith. ABHS has photographs and records of these missionaries and the Hopevale chapel.
