Residence Permit Belonging to Elisabeth Howard

Collection ID
PPR.010257
Type
Papers
Date
1952
Geography
Ecuador
Language
Spanish
Medium
Printed on Paper
Dimensions
6.1 × 3.7 × 0.2 in. (15.5 × 9.5 × 0.5 cm)
Exhibit Location
On View at The Billy Graham Museum, Wheaton, IL

This residence permit belonged to Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015), who was a missionary to the Waodäni people of Ecuador in the 1950s. She moved from the United States to Ecuador in 1952, and in 1953, she married Jim Elliot. In 1956, a Waodäni hunting party killed Jim and four other missionaries. Elisabeth chose to stay with the Waodäni people until 1963, when she returned to the United States.

Issued in 1952 by Ecuador’s Dirección de Inmigración y Extranjería (Directorate of Immigration and Foreigners) to Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015); Via death in 2015 to Lars Gren, Little Rock, Arkansas; Donated in 2020 to Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.

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