Granny Brand, Her Story

Granny Brand, Her Story by Wilson, Dorothy Clarke. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780915684113.

It was deep religious faith and an inflexible will which brought Evelyn Constance Harris, belle of a fashionable London suburb, to India at the age of thirty. There she fell in love with missionary Jesse Brand. On their wedding night they went up into the malaria-ridden Mountains of Death, the Eastern Ghats mountains of southern India, sharing Jesses vision of taking the Gospel to the hill people. Jesse died of blackwater fever in 1928, but his dream persisted. With an indomitable spirit, Evelyn Brand determined to bring life, hope and Christianity to the outcast inhabitants of all five mountain ranges of South India. For five decades, until her death in 1974 at the age of 95, she continued her unique ministry -- nursing, teaching and preaching to the diseased and poverty-stricken hill people. They were her friends; she was their doraisani, "honored lady." The world remembers her as the incredible Granny Brand