John Thomas Lee Mayer - Olive Tree planted by T J L Mayer at Sheikh Badin NWF, Pakistan

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Rev Thomas John Lee Mayer (“T.J.L Mayer” b.1844 — d.1918) laboured in Bannu Mission from 1874 to 1889 as one of the senior most missionaries of that era until Dr Theodore Pennell replaced him. He died in old age at Thandiani in July 1918 and is buried on a hillside there.

“It need not be said that missionaries on the frontier in those days (1870s) rarely made their appearance in the Punjab, but they had one refuge from the extreme heat of summer, for – perched on bare rock hill, with no water within 10 miles, lay the summer station of Sheikhbudin 4,200 feet above sea level. An olive tree which grew there from a cutting obtained by Mr. Mayer from the Mount of Olives (Jerusalem) in a later year, long commemorated Mr. Mayer’s visit to that hill station.” [Excerpt from TJL Mayer missionary of Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan Obituary – Lahore Diocesan Magazine 1918]

~ Ali Jan ~