Author: ECW-NC


  • A responsibility for $600 towards the price of the Lot on which the Church is placed was generously assumed by the Juvenile Sewing Society of the congregation, and $350 of this sum has been already paid by them. The sum of $500 has also been appropriated to the Vestry by the elder Female Working Society…

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  • The female industry of the congregation has extinguished, within the past, year, the balance due upon the Rectory. (Source: The Rev. Jarvis B. Buxton, Parochial Report, St. John’s Church, Fayetteville, 1837 Journal of Convention, 16)

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  • HENRIETTA (HENRI) DIBRELL BROWN

    b. March 7, 1955 by Mary Louise Burress, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Fifteen years ago, three women – Becky Clingman, Trudy Winstead, and Susan Uphoff, with help from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – started the Winston-Salem Augustine Project with six tutors and students at one school. They believed, as we still do,…

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    The Ladies’ Working Society continues its truly praiseworthy and valuable labours. (Source: The Rev. Thomas F. Davis, Parochial Report, St. James’ Church, Wilmington, 1836 Journal of Convention, 26)

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  • The Ladies’ Working Society is at length rewarded by seeing the Church freed from debt, chiefly by their labours. They are now labouring diligently to aid in purchasing an Organ. (Source: The Rev. William M. Green, Parochial Report, St. Matthew’s Church, Hillsborough, 1836 Journal of Convention, 28)

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  • The Ladies’ Working Society again deserves to be noticed for their untiring industry, and efficient labours in promoting the prosperity of the Congregation. (Source: The Rev. William M. Green, Parochial Report, St. Matthew’s Church, Hillsborough, 1835 Journal of Convention, 13)

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  • THE RALPH FAMILY

    SARAH DIANE RALPH LANIER, b. June 26, 1937 SANDRA FAULKNER RALPH JOSEPH, b. November 7, 1942 SARAH PAULETTE LANIER WELLS, b. March 5, 1969 ALLISON ANN JOSEPH CRUMPLER, b. April 16, 1972 by Barbara Sue Oglesby Nicholl, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Erwin, 2016 In 2005, at the time of the 100th Anniversary of St. Stephen’s…

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  • Since the last Convention, a convenient house has been purchased for a Rectory, and paid for, principally by the Ladies Working Society, and by the liberal contributions of a few individuals. (Source: The Rev. John Avery, Parochial Report, St. Paul’s Church, Edenton, 1835 Journal of Convention, 14)

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  • “If there was ever anyone who appreciated God as the creator of the universe, and who took it on as her responsibility to keep our earth green, it was Pauline Ralph.” Pauline, of Erwin, NC, passed away eight years ago, just a month after her 91st birthday. You are encouraged to learn a bit about…

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  • PAULINE JEWEL FAULKNER RALPH

    November 11, 1917 – December 27, 2008 by Barbara Sue Oglesby Nicholl, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Erwin, 2016 If there was ever anyone who appreciated God as the creator of the universe, and who took it on as her responsibility to keep our earth green, it was Pauline Ralph. She was appointed by the mayor…

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