Lucy G ThurstonLucy Goodale was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1795 and is best known as one of the first Christian missionaries that voyaged to Hawaii in 1819. She initially applied to a newspaper advertisement for volunteers to go to the then-mostly unknow Pacific archipelago. Before leaving New England she married a fellow missionary from New England named Asa Thurston. They would spend the rest of their lives in Hawaii, raising a family and becoming a part of the early history of the islands. Lucy Thurston died in October 1876. Read More Read Less