Rev. Ernest R. Atwater (c. 1860–1898) was a Congregational minister and missionary to China. He was married to Jennie Pond Atwater (1865–96), who died while in the China mission with her husband. In the Boxer Rebellion, Rev. Atwater, his four children by Jennie, Ernestine (1889–1900), Mary (1892–1900), Celia (circa 1894–??), and Bertha (1896–??), and Ernest's second wife, Elizabeth Graham Atwater were all killed. Sources Our Jennie: Jennie Pond Atwater, by Rev. Chauncey Northrop Pond, Memorial pamphlet published in 1896. 1860s births 1898 deaths American Congregationalist ministers American Congregationalist missionaries American Christian theologians Place of birth missing American expatriates in China Congregationalist missionaries in China 19th-century American clergy