According to the article below, there’s a graveyard in Tainan where the grave of Rev. Thomas Barclay and other missionaries can be found. The article then has directions to the grave (no idea how accurate), but I have not been able to find the location using Google Earth. I’m not even certain which road is Chunghua Road, as different maps tell me different things.
After examining several maps of Tainan, it seems that Chunghua South Road is the east-west highway that passes by the northern tip of the airport runway. According to the China Post directions the road goes under the train tracks, but according to Google Earth the road actually goes over the tracks. And approaching from the east and taking the first right after the tracks and accordingly following the directions brings us nowhere near a cemetery.
So it looks like the directions in China Post are screwed. Any help would be greatly appreciated - other Google searches (English and Chinese) are proving fruitless.
Here is an overview of the big cemetery. The big roads around it are Zhonghua South Road Section 1 on the south, Guomin Road on the east, Dacheng Road Section 1 on the north and Ximen Road Section 1 on the west.
In the center of this map in the lighter colored area just south of the two buildings is the Christian section where my father in law is buried.
However, based on the China Post article, the missionary graves they refer to may be somewhere in the area of this map. You’ll notice that Zhonghua South Road goes under not train tracks but some other kind of overpasses.
Thanks! I don’t see any roads that lead from Zhonghua S. Road into the cemetery, but also according to the article the graveyard is within one of Taiwan’s largest cemeteries, and this certainly qualifies. I’ve suspected it’s in there somewhere, and I know for a fact that it’s in a place where the graves are in neat rows.
Perhaps if I go there and ask, someone will know. (But then again, perhaps not, considering a) local abilities to give directions and b) it’s a cemetery - bad juju!)