Grace Church (Camden, S.C.) certified extract from the Record Book for 1874: ministerial record of the Rev. B. F. Dunkin Perry
Book 1, Page 642 ·1834–1969
Transcription
Grace Church Camden, South Carolina
REV. B. F. DUNKIN PERRY.
Born in Charleston S. C. August 18th 1834. Entered the Baptist ministry in 1856 Ordained Deacon in St. Paul’s Church Charleston S. C. March 29th. 1867, by Bishop Davis Ordained Priest by the same Bishop at the Church of the Holy Communion, Charleston, Dec 13th 1867. Temporary Rector of Trinity Church Abbeville, S. C. in 1867 Rector of the Church in Gainsville Fla from January 1868 to January 1872 Rector of Grace Church, Camden, S. C. from January 1872 until the time of his death.
Died, January 13th 1874 Aged 39. years. 4 months and 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 Record Book of Said Church from which the foregoing excerpt has been taken and that said excerpt is identical with that found in the said Record Book on page 215, being part of the records 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 Record Book for 1874 setting out the ministerial career of the Rev. B. F. Dunkin Perry, with notation that he entered the Baptist ministry in 1856 before transferring to the Episcopal Church. The notarial certification by Harry E. Lawhon, Jr., Rector, and Willie M. Taylor, Notary Public, is dated 13 June 1969. A notary seal is embossed at the lower left. Enclosed with pp. 640–641 in the Grace Church envelope mounted on p. 639. The information here overlaps with but is more detailed than that on p. 640. The ‘B. F.’ middle initials stand for ‘Benjamin Faneuil’ (not Franklin) — he was named for Judge Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin of Charleston, his father’s intimate friend, who became Chief Justice of the S.C. Court of Appeals 1865–1868 (per the family memorandum on book-002/p031–032). [corrected the people-list spelling of the subject’s middle name from Franklin to Faneuil per family memorandum and consistent biographical record.]
A notary seal is embossed at the lower left of the page.