Grace Church (Camden, S.C.) parish register excerpts: Rev. B. F. Dunkin Perry and Benjamin Fanneil Dunkin Perry
Book 2, Page 243 ·1834-1969
Transcription
[Pencilled annotation across the upper right corner in the compiler’s hand:]
originals of these records from Grace Church Camden went with Nancy McEwan Green’s Colonial Dames Papers to the South Carolina Society — obtained at the church by Mrs. James Pickens Walker Jr.
Upper document — Grace Church letterhead:
Grace Church
Camden, South Carolina
THE REV. HARRY E. LAWHON, JR., Rector
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 29.th 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.
Lower document — Grace Church letterhead:
Grace Church
Camden, South Carolina
THE REV. HARRY E. LAWHON, JR., Rector
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, Gainesville.
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.
AI Notes
Two typed certified excerpts on Grace Church (Camden, South Carolina) letterhead summarizing the ministerial career of the Rev. Benjamin Fanneil Dunkin Perry (1834-1874). The upper excerpt gives an abbreviated version, the lower a slightly fuller account with the bishop’s full name (Thos. F. Davis) and the secretarial Florida-Convention service detail. A pencilled note in the compiler’s hand (or her daughter Mary Ann’s) across the top right corner records that the originals were sent with Nancy McEwan Green’s Colonial Dames papers to the South Carolina Society, and that these certified copies were obtained at the church by Mrs. James Pickens Walker Jr. (i.e. the compiler’s daughter-in-law).
Page is cut off below this point — signature block continues onto another sheet.
Editorial note: The typed middle name Fanneil is a typist’s misspelling of Faneuil, the correct form — the subject was named for Judge Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin of Charleston, his father’s close friend. The pencilled provenance note records that the original parish register pages went to the South Carolina Society with Nancy McEwan Green’s Colonial Dames application papers — so these certified typescript copies, obtained at Grace Church by Mrs. James Pickens Walker Jr., are the archive’s working substitute. The age at death is given as 39 years, 4 months, 25 days in both excerpts.