Carrying the torch, 100 years later

Descendants of US missionaries move to Shanghai to 'close circle of life'

On July 14, 1919, two US missionaries - Cary Touchstone and Mabel Ellen Thomas - tied the knot at the United States Consulate in Shanghai after they met in the neighboring city of Suzhou, Jiangsu province.

Touchstone was the bursar at Soochow University, while Thomas worked as the head nurse at the first affiliated hospital of the university.