The Hyphen Family Lineage

Lillie never married, and by 1900 was working as a Presbyterian missionary, primarily in the Middle East, according to passport applications and other immigation documents (found in research by Jim Flack). What appears to be her first passport was issued at the end of June 1899; in the application, she gives her residence as Fort Wayne, Allen Cty, Indiana, and her occupation as "teacher." In subsequent passport applications, she gives her overseas residence as Tabriz in Iran, and her purpose for travel as missionary work in Persia.

Lillie does not appear to have ever married. She is buried in Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne, though her place of death is not accurately known and recorded at this time. Jim Flack notes that some Ancestry.com trees place her death in Washington, D.C. - this seems quite possible, as her sister (Daisy) and brother-in-law (John Mulford) lived there from at least 1920, as John was a draftsman who appears to have been a government employee. John died in 1933, but Daisy continued to live in the D.C. area as a widow after his death. It seems entirely possible that after Lillie retired from mission work, she returned to her home country to live with what may have been her only surviving sibling - Etta died in 1949, Lillie in 1961, and Daisy in 1968.