ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: ECW-NC
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b. 1943 by the Rev. Paul Canady, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 “When I heard the rector quote Scripture, saying ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart,’ I was riveted by those words, and I knew that I had never put God first in my life,” says Jane Merritt. That was…
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by Ellen C. Weig, Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, NC, 2012 Miss Rebecca Hill was the Treasurer of the Ladies Sewing Society (LSS) of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Hillsborough in 1866 and for many years. The daughter of Thomas Blount Hill and Maria T. Simpson she had been confirmed at St Mary’s School in…
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b. February 25, 1929 by Ann Victoria Harris Bustard, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Barbara was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Grand Canyon Village, Arizona. A cradle Episcopalian, Barbara was baptized at Grand Canyon Village by the Bishop of St. Louis, William Scarlett. At age thirteen, Barbara attended Wasatch Academy,…
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May 13, 1827 – March 30, 1886 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Mary Bayard Devereux Clarke was born on May 13, 1827, in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Thomas Pollock Devereux and Catherine Anne Johnson Devereux. Her ancestors include revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards, clergyman and educator Samuel Johnson,…
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October 25, 1920 – November 2, 2014 by the Episcopal Church Women, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Hamlet, 2016 Irma Crowell was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1920, to Delores Felice Perl and William St. George Walker. In 1941 she married Julius Alexander Crowell, Sr. (1916-2005), and they had a son and a daughter: Dr. Julius…
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b. October 6, 1936 by the Rev. Paul Canady, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 The Rev. Dr. Patricia Menne Thomas served as Rector of Christ Church from 1999-2002. She was the first woman (and only, thus far) to hold the title. Pat’s time at Christ Church was, by most people’s accounting, a tumultuous…
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February 20, 1882 – October 1, 1951 by David Curtis Skaggs, Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Beginning in the 1920s, Christ Church’s Minnette Chapman Duffy championed one of the longest running and most important projects in the history of New Bern – the rebuilding of Tryon Palace. The wife of New Bern physician…
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May 8, 1914 – July 24, 2003 by Willard Seymour “Tom” Taylor, Jr., All Saints Episcopal Church, Hamlet, NC, 2015 Frances Jean Cox was born in Eden, North Carolina (then known as Leaksville-Spray), a daughter of Foster Nugent Cox and Virginia Mae Johnson. An attorney before his ordination to the Episcopal priesthood in 1945, Foster…
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b. September 20, 1944 by the Archives Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Carolyn Todd Stokes is a “cradle” Episcopalian. She was baptized on Christmas Eve of 1944 at Pinkney Memorial Church in Hyattsville, Maryland. Her family moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1947, where they became members of St. Paul’s Episcopal…
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b. February 12, 1930 by Page H. Onorato, Grace Episcopal Church, Lexington, NC, 2016 Mary Dauch Davis came to Lexington, North Carolina, as a bride in 1956. Raised in Ohio, she met her future husband, Gray Davis, in Denver where she was teaching kindergarten after graduating from Oberlin College. She agreed to teach the young…