Verso of infant photograph — pencilled memorial of Rev. B. F. Dunkin Perry

The reverse of the sepia infant photograph on page 235. Five short lines in soft pencil in an adult hand summarize the ministerial career and death of the Rev. Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin Perry: Trinity Church, Abbeville (1867); Grace Church, Camden (1871); died January 13, 1874. The opening line, written above a struck-through phrase ‘in Camden’, is very faintly inked — two cursive words that appear to name the subject but are not securely legible at this resolution. The dates and place sequence match the Grace Church parish-register excerpts certified by the Rev. Harry E. Lawhon Jr. in 1969 (pages 242, 243, 640, 642): Rev. Perry served as temporary rector of Trinity Church, Abbeville in 1867, was associated with Grace Church, Camden by 1871–72 (officially rector from January 1872), and died there on January 13, 1874, aged 39 years 4 months 25 days. Grace Episcopal Church, Camden, was consecrated in 1860 and is one of the oldest churches in the Diocese of Upper South Carolina. Note that the photograph on the recto (page 235) carries a photographer’s signature dated apparently ‘92’ (i.e. c. 1892), so the baby pictured is not Rev. Perry himself but a later sitter; the inscription was added to this card as a memorial note for the clergyman the dates commemorate.

The opening line, naming the subject, is very faint; “in Camden” beneath it is struck through. The dates and place sequence — 1867 Abbeville, 1871 Camden / Grace Church, died January 13, 1874 — match exactly the ministerial career of the Rev. Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin Perry (1834–1874), who was temporary rector of Trinity Church, Abbeville in 1867, rector of Grace Church, Camden from January 1872 (with prior association in 1871), and died there on January 13, 1874. See the certified Grace Church parish-register excerpts on pages 242, 243, 640, and 642.