Grace Church (Camden, S.C.) parish register excerpts: Julia N. Perry (1907) and Rev. B. F. D. Perry (1874 burial)
Book 2, Page 242 ·1874-1969
Transcription
Upper document — Grace Church letterhead:
Grace Church
Camden, South Carolina
THE REV. HARRY E. LAWHON, JR., Rector
PERRY Julia N. Perry, widow of the Rev. J. B. D. Perry, rector of this parish in 1872-73, died near Rock Hill on November 18th, and was buried in the Camden Cemetery on November 20th, 1907. aged 73 years.
/s/ W. B. Gordon
Lower document — Grace Church letterhead:
Grace Church
Camden, South Carolina
THE REV. HARRY E. LAWHON, JR., Rector
January 15th 1874. Rev. B. F. D. Perry. Rector of the church, was buried in the Cemetary. Officiating clergyman Rev. John. Johnson
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 428, being part of the records of Burials for the year 1874.
/s/ Harry E. Lawhon, Jr., Rector
Sworn to before me this thirteenth day of June, 1969.
/s/ [Virginia M. Taylor?]
Notary Public for South Carolina
AI Notes
Two typed certified excerpts on Grace Church (Camden, South Carolina) letterhead, both attesting to entries in the parish burial register. The upper excerpt records the burial of Julia N. Perry, widow of the Rev. J. B. D. Perry, in 1907 (dictated by the typist as ‘J. B. D.’ — almost certainly a typist’s error for B. F. D. Perry, see lower excerpt), and is signed by W. B. Gordon; her age at death is given as 73 years. The lower excerpt records the burial of the Rev. B. F. D. Perry on 15 January 1874 (his death date per p243 was 13 January; the 15th is the burial date), officiating clergyman the Rev. John Johnson; signed by Harry E. Lawhon Jr., rector, with a notarial certification dated 13 June 1969 by Virginia M. Taylor (?), Notary Public for South Carolina. The Rev. Harry E. Lawhon, Jr. is named as rector on the printed letterhead. Companion to book-002/p243 which carries fuller ordination-and-career excerpts for the same Rev. B. F. D. Perry.
Editorial note: The clergyman’s initials in the upper excerpt “J. B. D. Perry” are an apparent typist error: every other reliable source — the lower excerpt here, p243, the p610 pedigree, and Hunter McEwan’s family records — gives the rector’s initials as B. F. D. (for Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin Perry), named for Charleston’s Judge Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin. Julia N. Perry (his widow, b. 1834, d. 1907 — see p610) is documented as Julia Virginia Besselieu in the family chart; “N.” here is unexplained — perhaps a typist’s misread of “V.”. The burial-register death date of 15 January reflects the burial; the actual death was 13 January (per Grace Church p243 and family-group-sheet p610).