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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: By Word & Example
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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…
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October 2, 1922 – December 29, 2015 by Rosalie Fonda, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Durham, NC, 2016 The daughter of Mary Elizabeth Benton Spencer and Percy C. Spencer, Elizabeth Spencer Gray was born in Greenville, North Carolina in 1922. She completed high school and took college and graduate classes in Early Childhood Education at the…
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b. 1960 by the Archives Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Carol Campbell Davis grew up in the United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina while attending the Chapel of the Cross sporadically. After moving to Winston-Salem in 1991, Carol was invited by a work colleague, Marty Lentz, to join the…
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b. January 14, 1947 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Beverly Eaves Perdue, a member of Christ Church, served as the 73rd governor of North Carolina from 2009 to 2013. Christ Church in New Bern has a long and rich tradition of providing leadership in public service and…