ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: ECW-NC
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A handsome carpet was given to St. Mark’s by a lady communicant in March. The ladies have ordered a substantial woven wire fence for the church yard and also for the cemetery. The money was made by the ladies of the congregation. (Source: The Rev. Homer Leach Hoover, Parochial Report, St. Mark’s, Halifax, 1906 Journal…
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Elnora Gore I have attended and been active in the life of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem since 1968. My service to the Church includes being Senior Warden and Clerk of the Vestry. I serve as chairperson of the Worship Committee and as president of the Adult Choir. I serve on the Education Committee…
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May 1st, 1901, the Parish again mourns the loss of one of the most consecrated Christians I have ever known, Mrs. Dora M. Hargarve. For many years her familiar seat in church was seldom vacant; rain or shine, sleet or snow, found her in God’s house, till her health gave way completely, death finally relieved…
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Carolyn R. Townsend, RN Born and grew up in Riverside, California. Enjoyed Girl Scouting and traveled with the regional troop to the 1956 first National Girl Scout Round-up in Michigan. Earned a B.S. in Nursing from UCLA. First public health nursing job was with the Los Angeles County Health Department. Earned an MPH in Public…
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In 1911 a new brick church was built with the aid of the members and the financial part by Rev. Francis J. Murdoch’s wife and the late Miss Daisy Murdoch which was Dr. Murdoch’s sister. Dr. Murdoch had hoped to live to see the new brick church completed, however, following his death, his wife and…
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If there is any way at all possible I would like for the stipend of Miss Ethel Bernard to be increased. She is the founder of the McCumber Mission, which has been forced to meet in her home for the past two years. She does two people’s work in the Brooklyn Mission both in teaching…
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February 15th, the Sunday School met in the new Sunday school room in the basement of the Church, which has been completed mainly through the generosity of a member of the Parish and the efforts of the Ladies’ Aid Society. (Source: The Rev. S. P. Watters, Parochial Report, Grace Church, Morganton, 1885 Journal of Convention,…
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b. 1920 by Carolyn Townsend, St. Bartholomew’s Church, Pittsboro, 2014 At the age of eight Moleta Waddell became a member of St. James’ Chapel, the African American mission in Pittsboro. Her parents, Minnie and Charlie Waddell, had seven children, including Mildred, Moleta, Ruth, and two boys who died of diphtheria. Moleta attended Horton School in…
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It is hoped that the churches of the Convocation will not forget our school at Roanoke Rapids. Mr. Joyner, the Rector, of the congregation there, reports a fine school of over forty pupils under the efficient supervision of a teacher from old Virginia, a Mrs. Pace, a thorough churchwoman of good experience, and one who…
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A visitor might have the impression that she had come into the midst of a family instead of into a school; it is both a family and a school. To be sure we rise in the morning by a bell for an early breakfast, for the dishes have to be washed and the house cleaned…