Samuel Munson (1804 in New Sharon, Maine – 28 June 1834 in Sacca, Lopu Pining, Tapanuli, Sumatra) was an American Baptist missionary who, together with his colleague Henry Lyman, was murdered and cannibalised in

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

.Memorials of Protestant missionaries to the Chinese Alexander Wylie - 1967 -"Munson and Lyman, was a tour of observation and inquiry among the islands of the Indian Archipelago, ... surrounded by a large party of Battak cannibals and immediately dispatched ; Mr. Munson being run through the body with a spear, "

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1804 births 1834 deaths Baptist missionaries in Indonesia Baptist missionaries from the United States Cannibalised people People from New Sharon, Maine People murdered in Indonesia American people murdered abroad American expatriates in Indonesia 19th-century Baptists {{Christianity-bio-stub