Certificate of Holy Baptism: James Pickens Walker Sr., November 25 1950
Book 3, Page 23 ·1883–1950
Transcription
A printed certificate within a red Greek-cross-cornered border.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
We do Certify:
That, according to the ordinance of Christ Himself, we did administer to
Filled-in name in blue typewriter ink:
JAMES PICKENS WALKER
Printed heading:
THE SACRAMENT OF
Holy Baptism
thereby making him a member of Christ, the Child of God, and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven; on the twenty-fifth day of November, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty, in Good Shepherd Church, Jacksonville, Florida, in the Diocese of Florida.
Signature, in blue ballpoint:
(Signed) L. Valentine Lee (Rector)
Filled-in particulars, typewritten:
Parents: Samuel Cadwaller Walker / Emma Dee (Pickens) Walker
Sponsors or Witnesses: James Pickens Walker, Jr. / Ann Knight Walker
Date of Birth: April 27, 1883
Place of Birth: Overfield, West Virginia
AI Notes
A printed Episcopal Certificate of Holy Baptism (Morehouse-Gorham Form No. 100), filled out in blue typewriter ink. A pale yellow Latin cross is printed as a background watermark. The certificate records the adult baptism of James Pickens Walker Sr. — born 1883 in Overfield, West Virginia, son of Samuel Cadwaller Walker and Emma Dee Pickens Walker — on November 25, 1950, at age 67. His sponsors were his son and daughter-in-law, James Pickens Walker Jr. and Ann Knight Walker. He was baptized the day before his son’s confirmation (page 20, Nov 26 1950) by the same rector, the Rev. L. Valentine Lee. The companion devotional card ‘In Holy Baptism I Was Made’ appears on page 24. No marginalia.
A late-in-life adult baptism: James Pickens Walker, Sr., received the sacrament at 67. His son and daughter-in-law stood as his sponsors. The next day his son was confirmed in the same parish (see page 20).