Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots

American missionary, temperance evangelist

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1843

Place of Birth: Flushing, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1929

Profession: missionary, social activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots (nickname, “Mother Moots”; October 14, 1843 – 1929) was an American missionary and temperance evangelist.
She was one of four pioneer missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.Moots knew the state of Michigan in its pioneer days, her parents taking her there in 1836.
After years of activity in exhorting and organizing new branches, a new field opened to her as a temperance worker and she turned her force into the broad channel of temperance reform.
She served many terms as state evangelist in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.