Grace Church (Camden, S.C.) certified extract from the Parish Register for 1874: history record of Rev. Benjamin Fanneil Dunkin Perry
Book 1, Page 640 ·1834–1969
Transcription
[Manuscript heading in blue ink, in the compiler’s hand:]
Grace Church Camden, South Carolina
BENJAMIN FANNEIL DUNKIN PERRY
Born in Charleston, S. C. Aug. 18th 1834. Ordained Deacon by the Rt. Rev. Thos. F. Davis, D. D., in St. Paul’s Church, Charleston, March the 29th 1867. Minister in Trinity Church, Abbeville, during that year. Ordained Priest by the same Bishop in the Church of the Holy Communion, Charleston, Dec. 16th 1867. Transferred to the Diocese of Florida in 1868. Rector of Trinity Church, Gainsville. Secretary of the Convention 1869, 1870, and 1871. Transferred to the Diocese of South Carolina in April 1872.
DIED JANUARY 13th. A. D. 1874 Aged 39 Years, 4 Months. 25 Days.
State of South Carolina County of Kershaw
Personally appeared before me Harry E. Lawhon, Jr., Who, being sworn deposes and says that he is Rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Camden, South Carolina, and is custodian of the Parish Register of Said Church from which the foregoing excerpt has been taken and that said excerpt is identical with that found in the said Parish Register on page 181, being part of the records of History for the year 1874.
/s/ Harry E. Lawhon, Jr., Rector
Sworn to before me this thirteenth day of June, 1969
/s/ Willie M. Taylor Notary Public for South Carolina
AI Notes
A single typewritten sheet on plain white paper, headed in blue manuscript with the words ‘Grace Church / Camden, South Carolina.’ The body is a certified extract from the parish register for the year 1874 setting out the ordained ministry and death of the Rev. Benjamin Fanneil Dunkin Perry (the typist renders the middle name ‘FANNEIL’ — a variant of Faneuil; the family form is Faneuil), followed by a notarial certification signed by Harry E. Lawhon Jr., Rector, and notarized by Willie M. Taylor on 13 June 1969. A notary seal is embossed at the lower left. The typescript reads ‘Secretary of the Convention 1869’ (postdating his 1867 ordination) and ‘Trinity Church, Gainsville’ (as typed; not ‘Gainesville’). Enclosed with pp. 641 and 643 in the Grace Church dossier on p. 639.
A notary seal is embossed at the lower left of the page.
Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin Perry (1834–1874) is the compiler’s maternal grandfather — father of Mary Annie Perry “Minnie” FitzSimons. He was named for his father Edward Perry’s intimate friend Judge Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin (1792–1874), the Charleston jurist who served as Chief Justice of the SC Court of Appeals 1865–1868. The certified parish-register extract was obtained in 1969 by the compiler’s daughter-in-law Anne Knight Walker (Mrs. J. P. Walker Jr.) of Jacksonville, evidently in connection with a Colonial Dames application — see pp. 641–644 for the accompanying notarized documents.