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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: By Word & Example
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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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July 21, 1865 – December 20, 1936 Based on an article by George Huntley III, Senior at Beaufort High School, 1960; submitted by Mamré Marsh Wilson, Historiographer, Diocese of East Carolina, 2013 Mary Anna Davis – later known by her chosen name, Nannie Pasteur Davis, or affectionately called “Aunt Nannie” – was baptized in 1865…
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b. September 5, 1947 by Mary Fry Edmunds Haywood, St. Stephen’s Church, Durham Olivia Taylor Feduccia has been a driving force in keeping two Vance County churches alive. A member of the Historic Properties Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, she has served faithfully for many years on the Committee of St. John’s,…
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b. October 9, 1920 by Laurel Cargill Radley, Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul (Washington National Cathedral), 2013 Frances Barr Cargill celebrated her ninetieth birthday at the Macon County Historical Society Museum. Outside, the front window displayed artifacts and photographs related to Frances’ life, many objects older than she. But inside, the celebration focused…
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November 12, 1912 – November 12, 2004 by Alyce Mask Calmore, All Saints’ Church, Hamlet, 2013 Our mother was a native of La Porte, Indiana. She was baptized the twenty-second day of March, 1913 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in La Porte where her parents and grandparents were communicants. After completing high school in La…
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July 12, 1884 – October 30, 1965 by C. Rudolph Knight, Saint Augustine’s College Chapel, Raleigh, 2012 On November 3, 1965, St. Luke’s Colored Protestant Episcopal Church in Tarboro held the Requiem Mass and Burial Office for Catharine Cornelia Perry Weston, daughter of an Episcopal priest, wife of an Episcopal priest, mother of an Episcopal…
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b. September 2, 1978 by Allison Rankin, Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Wilmington, NC, 2013 Erica Lynne Wyatt Graves, Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Wilmington, North Carolina, is the silent worker bee. Her faithful presence and quiet leadership are made manifest in many ways. This includes producing the weekly church bulletin since our Myrtle Grove Middle School…
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b. January 14, 1977 by Ellen C Weig, Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, 2012 Standing on a podium, arms raised, baton poised, Megan paused to look at each person in the choir and the instrumentalists. St. Matthew’s Easter season premiere performance of Handel’s Messiah was about to begin. The choir, in black formal attire, was…
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November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985 by Margaret (Meg) McCann, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Durham, 2012 The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray was many things – writer, lawyer, professor, and advocate for the rights of African Americans and women. She was also the first African American woman ordained a priest in the Episcopal…
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b. October 1, 1927 by Mamré Marsh Wilson, Saint Paul’s Church, Beaufort, 2012 Kathryn Sewell was the only daughter of Lottie, a housekeeper, and Capt. Jack Sewell, a chief engineer on a Beaufort-based menhaden boat. One grandfather traveled on horseback downeast in Carteret County as a Free Will Baptist minister. The family lived on north…