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775.00
Adams, W. W.
105.00
Allis, H. B.
10.00
Adams, Mrs. K. and Mrs. Woodruff
(col. by)
56.25
Abeles & Co., C. T.
25.00
Abeles, Cook & Co
66.59
Alexander, J. C.
10.00
Allis, H. G.
90.00
Adams, A. F.
6.75
Austin, J. W.
15.00
Adams, Jno. D. (window
$800, pew $2,000,
cash $500)
3,300.00
Adams, Mrs. John D. (rugs)
11.00
Adams, J. Dudley
133.75
Barber, L. E. (window $300, cash $400)
700.00
Barber, Gwinn
25.00
Bay, J. L.
7.00
Blass, Jacob
1.00
Butler, C. M.
100.00
Benjamin, M. W.
25.00
Brower, D. A.
50.00
Blass & Co., Gus
20.00
Baird, J. W.
25.00
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235
Breysacher, Mrs. and Little May
6.00
Breysacher, A. L.
125.00
Bernays, L. C.
100.00
Bein, H. H.
5.00
Beach, A. D.
5.00
Brack, G. S.
180.00
Bunch, T. H.
10.00
Bankes, T. W.
175.00
Belding, A.
5.00
Brown, Geo. Russ
25.00
Bartlett, B. J.
32.00
Butler, Robert
5.00
Cochrane, Mrs. H. K.
5.00
Clements, Miss Jennie B.
20.00
Cribbs, Miss Lee
5.00
Caldwell, H. C.
10.00
Carnes, P. H.
10.00
Carroll, Mrs. Rachel
25.00
Carroll, Miss Fannie
5.00
Crease, Miss (col. by)
10.00
Christ Church Sunday School.
83.00
Christ Church S. S. (Easter col. at Church)
174.35
Calef & Deshon
20.00
Colburn & Co., J. M.
10.00
Cohen, Albert
10.25
Clark, Sol F.
10.00
Cohn, M. M.
15.00
Conrad, C. H.
17.50
Cole, C. H.
100.00
Cockrill, S. R.
250.00
Clements, Jno. B.
2.10
Curran, W. S.
8.75
Clark, F. D.
25.00
Cantrell, W. A.
30.00
Cherry, L. W.
5.00
Carroll, C. S.
4.00
Carroll, S. C.
2.00
Cassenelli, L. D.
2.00
236
THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.
Deshon, A. G. (window $200, cash $100)
300.00
Dungan, Jno.
5.00
Dibrell, Mrs. Dr
10.00
Darragh, T. J.
10.00
Davis, Oscar
10.00
Donations by ladies (col. by Mrs. Haney)
9.00
Deuell, E. V.
100.00
Dooley, P. C.
35.00
Douglass, R. E.
25.00
Dean, C. C.
10.00
Fletcher, John G . Fatherly, W. A.
7.00
Fones Bros.
84.80
Frolich, Mrs.
25.00
Faber, H.
1.00
Feeton, Jno.
15.00
Farrell, Wm.
50.00
Gibson, L. P.
10.00
Goodwin, John W.
100.00
Godbold, A.
5.00
Gress & Leigh
35.00
Goodrich, Ralph L. (window $250, cash $370) ..
620.00
Griffith, S. L.
205.00
Garland, A. H.
35.00
Hooper, P. O.
50.00
Haney, J. H.
200.00
Hutt, A. J.
8.75
Hutt, W. S.
33.75
Hughes, Geo. A.
10.00
Hornibrook, Jas. A.
10.00
Hempstead, F.
5.00
Hall, Mr.
5.00
Homan, Mrs.
10.00
Halliburton, W. H.
50.00
Jabine, John N.
110.00
Jabine, Mrs. Harry
5.00
Jones, D. E.
15.00
Jordan, Miss Matilda
5.00
200.00
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237
HI. C. Jones
10.00
Jennings, R. G.
100.00
Kirkwood, J. B.
17.50
Kirkwood, T. C.
17.50
Kirkwood, Geo. F.
12.50
Kramer, Fred
20.00
Kutner, Wm.
1.00
Kirten, Wm.
92.50
Kendrick, J. T.
40.00
Knapp, Gilbert
30.00
Krause, Miss Lou
50.00
Lawson, Miss Nellie
5.00
Ladies' Aid Society
5,614.00
Ladies' Aid Society (carpets)
1,170.00
Ladies' Aid Society ( upholstery
125.00
Ladies' Aid Society (wardrobe)
25.50
Landeau, Alex
50
Lawson, Mrs. James (col. by)
4.50
Lewis, Mrs. L. (window $300, with Peyton, Peay, and Crease)
15.00
Lincoln, C. J. .
100.00
Lenow, Mrs. J. II.
85.00
Martin, Mrs. A. E.
100.00
Meade, Geo. HI.
325.00
Miller, Jas. R.
200.00
Mortimer, H.
1.00
McCarthy, J. II.
100.00
McNair, Willis
2.00
McSwine, G. R.
10.00
Marye, Travers
5.00
Maxwell, Mrs. Mary J.
17.50
Murphy, Will J.
S.75
Matthews, R. J.
50.00
Matthews, Jno. L.
100.00
Mandlebaum, J. J.
3.50
Martin, Fred
5.00
Mitchell, Jno. A.
10.00
Miller, D.
30.00
238
THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.
Miller, Wiley B.
297.00
Mivelaz, P. L.
1.00
Maxwell, Family
100.00
Matthews, Miss Annie
5.00
Mitchell, John
10.00
Martin, R. W.
10.00
Mast, J. W.
2.50
Martin, Geo. W.
5.00
MeSwine, Mrs. P. A.
5.00
Mivelaz, P.
2.00
Morrell, Miss Lottie (Bible book mark)
25.00
Newton, E. C.
40.00
Newton, T. W.
5.00
Navra, Sam
5.00
Peay, Mrs. Sue (window $300, cash $17)
317.00
Peay, G. N.
145.84
Powell, T. C.
5.00
Percival, J. M.
20.00
Parker, Ed W.
17.50
Percival, J. C.
10.00
Pollock, A.
2.50
Pettefer, Ambrose
30.00
Pettefer, H.
30.00
Polk, R. J.
75.00
Peyton, Mrs. C. (window $300, cash $40, Crease,
Peay, etc.)
340.00
Phillips, Philip (concert)
42.75
Pollock, J. S.
25.00
Pabodie, Mrs.
5.00
Parkins, Mrs. S.
10.00
Penzel, C. F.
25.00
Quinn & Gray
25.00
Ragland, Mr.
10.00
Rudolph, C.
1.00
Ruley, A. G.
30.00
Reeves, W. L.
15.00
Reeves, E. T.
10.00
Ryan & Co., A. H.
1.00
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239
Roots, Mrs. E. M.
50.00
Rees, S. P.
5.00
Rector, H. M.
10.00
Rose, U. M.
233.33
Roberts, W. L.
6.25
Reed, F. C.
10.00
Reiley, T. G.
10.00
Roots, P. K.
300.00
Roots, P. K. (altar)
135.00
Rather, H. C.
5.00
Roots, L. H. (window $1,200, two pews $4,000, cash $4,014.54)
9,214.54
Smothers, L. P.
35.00
Shadinger, J. H.
5.00
Sevier, A. H.
175.00
Stanus, W. N.
5.00
Slaughter, J. A.
87.50
Stark, Dr. L. R.
20.00
Smith, Sam O.
100.00
Stewart, Baylor R.
17.50
Smith, Mrs. R. S.
4.00
Shaw, M. W.
5.00
Stifft, C. S.
5.00
Sterling, Mrs. B. B.
10.00
Stratman, G. H.
50.00
Scott, Mrs. E. L.
25.00
Seward, S. B.
10.00
Sappington, Mrs. Colonel
10.00
Skipwith, Mrs.
10.00
Sannoner, J. H.
95.00
Smith, W. W.
250.00
Smith, J. W.
15.00
Sell, Mrs. H.
5.00
Scott, Miss Fanny (by subs., altar cross)
52.50
'Shall, Miss Mary and others (Com. service)
500.00
Turner, W. J.
62.50
Trezzare, Miss A. R.
2.00
Trezevant, J. T., Jr
142.73
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Townsley, H. S.
10.00
Townsley, E. G.
10.00
Terry, F. A.
6.25
Tupper, T. C.
75.00
Trumpler, J. F.
1.00
Thompson, W. J.
10.00
Tobey, W. E.
10.00
Taylor, Dr. C. M. (col. by Miss Crease)
100.00
Urquhart, E. (pew $2,000).
500.00
Upham, Mrs. Lizzie (window $250, cash $25)
275.00
Van Etten, G. H. (pew $2,000)
2,000.00
Vickers, H. L.
10.00
Wilson, W. T.
5.00
Woodruff, Wm. E., Jr.
50.00
Woodruff, Mrs. W. E., Jr
20.00
Woodruff, Ches. A ..
8.75
Woodruff, Miss Willie
5.00
Woodruff, Miss Georgia and Mrs. Jno. Jabine (Bishop's chair)
75.00
Waters, C. C.
50.00
Whipple, Wm. G ..
150.00
Whipple, Wm. G. (C. C. concert)
44.30
Wright, W. F.
300.00
Webster, Geo.
10.00
Watkins, Miss Ida
. $105.00
Watkins, Miss Georgia C.
100.00
Window 300.00
505.00
Wright, W. H.
25.00
West, Henry C.
8.75
Wilson & Webb
15.00
Watkins, Dr. Claiborne
475.00
Wells & Dungan
17.27
Woodsmall, W. H.
20.00
Williams, Ham
5.00
Williams & Co., by Slaughter
100.00
Waters, D. S.
45.00
Worthen, W. B.
60.00
Wait, W. B.
1,203.00
241
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Wassell, John (window $350, cash $510) 860.00
Young Ladies' Guild (font) . 265.00
Young Ladies' Guild (Bible) 50.00
Zimmerman, J. V. 70.00
Amount individual subscriptions $38,945.58
Rectory, sale of
Materials sold by Captain Haney $ 3,361.75
1.00
Proceeds of pressed brick 121.25
M. & L. R. R. R. overcharges
93.33
M. & L. R. R. R. overcharges
6.00
Overfreight
21.00
Overwork
5.00
Insurance on old church
5,211.49
From sale of old material on foundation, etc.
1,751.75
Amount derived from other sources than indi- vidual subscriptions .$10,572.57
Forward individual subscriptions 38,945.58
$49,518.15
Debt
7,000.00
Total cost
. $56,518.15
LIST OF WINDOW SUBSCRIBERS.
Adams, John D. $ 800.00
Adams, Mrs. E. C. 300.00
Barber, Mrs. L. E. 300.00
Deshon, Mrs. A. G.
200.00
Goodrich, R. L. 250.00
Peay, Mrs. Sue
300.00
Peyton, Mrs. C. (Crease, Peay, Lewis) 300.00
Upham, Mrs. Lizzie 250.00
Wassell, Mrs. J.
350.00
Watkins, Misses Ida and Georgia C. 300.00
Roots, L. H. 1,200.00
$ 4,550.00
.
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Actual cost of foundation as per
books
$10,719.14
Actual cost of superstructure as per books
$35,704.67
Account paid
188.09
Account paid
180.00
Choir pews
74.00
Ventilating apparatus
105.00
Insurance
500.00
Altar cross
52.50
Altar
135.00
Bishop's chair
75.00
Bible
50.00
Font
265.00
Credence
20.00
Carpets
1,170.00
Stools
125.00
Wardrobe
25.00
Bible mark
25.00
Moving organ
75.00
Communion service
500.00
Rugs .
11.00
Safe and furniture
130.00
$39,410.26
$39,410.26
$50,129.40
Less amounts not chargeable to cost
of church as advances returned. $
S80.00
Repairs on rectory
281.25
Borrowed money now included in
item "debt"
4,000.00
$ 5,161.25
$ 5,161.25
$44,968.15
Debt
7,000.00
Windows
4,550.00
Total cost
$56,518.15
REV. T. C. TUPPER, D. D.
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COST OF FOUNDATION.
Received.
Trezevant
$ 8,983.08
Expended. $ 8,966.34
Wait
810.32
772.45
Wait
130.00
184.61
Wassell
795.74
795.74
$10,719.14
$10,719.14
COST OF SUPERSTRUCTURE.
ยท Total amt. received as per books, etc. $34,249.01
Total amt. expended as per books, etc.
$34,249.01
Debt
7,000.00
7,000.00
Windows
4,550.00
4,550.00
$56,518.15
$56,518.15
Whole amt. subscribed to church, individuals and windows, etc.
$38,945.58
Sale of rectory
3,361.75
Insurance on old church
5,211.49
Sale of materials, etc.
1,999.33
Debt
7,000.00
$56,518.15
REV. TULLIUS C. TUPPER, D. D.
A. D. 1846-1895. Rev. Tullius C. Tupper, D. D., was born in Canton, Miss., December 6, 1846. His parents were of the old Southern patrician stock. His father, General T. C. Tupper, "whose name was a household word in Missis- sippi," was a very eminent lawyer and one of the most polished and courtly men of his State. He was appointed by Gov- crnor Pettus and commissioned major general of the Missis- sippi State troops during the Civil War. His wife, Mrs.
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Mary Harding Drane Tupper, was a descendant of a leading family in Southern Kentucky. Their son, Rev. Dr. Tupper, was educated at the University of Mississippi, and afterwards for the law, and was admitted to the bar soon after his father's death, in 1867. In 1868-69 he served as clerk of the Circuit Court of Madison County, and in the following year resumed the practice of law, forming a partnership with W. C. Cal- hoon, brother of the Hon. S. S. Calhoon, late of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. In the latter part of 1871 Dr. Tup- per, having fully decided to prepare himself for the sacred ministry, was admitted a candidate for orders in that Diocese, and then entered and pursued his theological studies at the Nashotah Theological Seminary in Wisconsin. In 1873, soon after the death of his mother, he was ordained Deacon, and in July, 1874, admitted to the sacred order of Priests by Bishop Green, and assigned to an extensive field of missionary work in North Mississippi, from which point he was called to the pastorate of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Memphis, Tenn., and in the following year to the charge of Christ Church, Little Rock, Ark., where he served eleven years. A distinguished journalist, now of Atlanta, Ga., said of him: "He was not only a pastor of Christ Church but a citizen in every sense of the word. He was honored by the State with positions of trust connected with State institutions, and was a potent factor in all works of charity in the city of Little Rock. Everybody loved and honored him there, if we may judge from the encomiums heaped upon him by the press of the State on his departure. He is a classical scholar, and in evidence of the appreciation of him, both within the fold and outside of his Church, the Board of Trustees of the State University of Arkansas conferred upon him honoris causa in 1884, the degree of doctor of divinity. Since leaving Little
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Rock, Dr. Tupper has held important charges, both in paro- chial and missionary work, in the Diocese of Kansas, Georgia, and Alabama. In July, 1874, he was married to Miss Imogen Hicks, of Sardis, Miss., a niece of Colonel John R. Dickens, who was a colonel in the Confederate army. From this union there were born six sons and four daughters, all of whom are now living. The eldest child, Miss Mary Dickens Tupper, was married in 1895 to Professor Philip Dudley Youngblood, of Atlanta, Ga., of fine family lineage, a distin- guished young teacher and chemist, both in the public schools and colleges of that city. Miss Viola Tupper, the second daughter, was married November 17, 1898, to Mr. Robert S. Barnett, a journalist, of Mexico City. Tullius C., the eldest son, is engaged in railroad business with the superin- tendent of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad ; Vernon S., the second son, has just entered the University of the South to study for the ministry. The other children, Clifton Haywood, Imogen, Walter Vivian, Rosalind, La- monte, and Noland, are living with their parents.
The following named gentlemen, most of whom have gone to their reward, were the Wardens and Vestrymen dur- ing the Rectorship of Dr. Tupper:
Luke E. Barber, Senior Warden.
R. H. Parham, Junior Warden.
William B. Wait.
W. W. Smith.
J. H. Haney. Robert J. Matthews.
William G. Whipple.
Logan H. Roots.
Geo. H. Van Etten.
Samuel L. Griffith. P. K. Roots.
-17 -
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Judge John Wassell was Junior Warden up to the time of his death, when he was succeeded by Major R. H. Parham.
William B. Wait, Albert O'Neal, Albert Wassell, and R. H. Parham were respectively treasurers of the parish dur- ing this Rectorship. Mrs. Logan H. Roots and Miss Geor- gie Woodruff were president and treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Society. Mrs. Kerr was organist. Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. Katzenberg (Mandlebaum), Mrs. Williams, Miss May Can- trell, Miss Nellie Clark, Major Smith, Colonel W. G. Whipple were members of the choir, the greater part of the time; also Miss Daisy Cantrell and Miss Isadore Cantrell, successively. Colonel and Mrs. Whipple were connected with the choir for the entire eleven years. During this time the Sunday School was increased from forty children to 250 with a good corps of teachers, with Colonel L. H. Roots, suc- ceeded by Major P. K. Roots as superintendent, and Mrs. P. K. Roots as organist. During Dr. Tupper's incumbency the Chapel was built and the new Church edifice was brought nearly to completion. He had held services in the Supreme Courtroom and in the Chamber of Com- merce, while the Chapel was in course of construction. All the energy and enthusiasm of the congregation were brought to bear towards the accomplishment of this object. Bazaars were held, and concerts and cantatas were given for the purpose. This Chapel was completed and used for wor- ship for nine years. The new Church gradually rose beside it, and the last touches were being added in the way of win- dows, and furniture, when Dr. Tupper resigned. Besides the windows already described, there were three in the north wall of the nave and one in the Chancel. This was a beau- tiful representation of Christ blessing the little ones, with fifteen life-sized figures. The inscription is "To the glory
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of God and memory of our sons," by Logan H. and Emily Roots. The window in the nave near the south transept, rep- resents the resurrection, with three figures, Christ, the Angel, and Roman soldier. The inscription is "In memory of Daniel Phillips Upham, November 18, 1882." It was donated by his widow. The next is "In memory of Hugh Hogart Bein, died April 18, 1884." This represents Apol- los, "an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures," with the angel-two figures. Donated by the widow. The next window, representing two female figures, is inscribed "In loving memory of Albert Gallatin Deshon, February 28, 1884." Donated by the widow. In the front of the Church and above what was intended to be used as an organ loft, is a beautiful rose window, with the Holy Dove on the wing. The light coming through this window is intercepted by an organ loft, which is reached by a staircase going up in the north side of the vestibule entrance. Neither the staircase nor the loft was in the original design of the architect, who left the space on the south side of the altar for the organ, as is usual in all Episcopal Churches of size. This space had been walled up for a room by the building committee, and the organ, when taken from the Chapel, was set up in the organ loft. The Rector, Rev. Wallace Carnahan, did not approve of this, and, on the Easter Sunday marked by the first service in the Church, a cabinet organ, placed tempo- rarily near the chancel, was used. The next week, with con- sent of the congregation, the room was torn away and the organ conveyed from the loft to the place thus made vacant, where it has since remained. In the wall of the north transept is a large window, representing the four evangelists, lifesize, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, with their sym- bolic figures, the Man, the Lion, the Ox, and the Eagle, at
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their feet. This beautiful window was donated by Major John D. Adams. It bears no inscription. The window opposite, of the same size, has been reserved for the portraits of the four Missionary Bishops, Polk, Otey, Freeman, and Lay, but the funds collected by Mrs. Sappington, president of the Chancel Guild, for that purpose, not proving to be suf- ficient for that object, were devoted to a handsome eagle lectern in memory of Bishop Otey and two prayer desks in memory of Bishop Freeman, and Bishop Polk, and a pulpit in memory of Bishop Lay. It is earnestly hoped that the original idea may be developed and the window completed, which is now merely stained in solid, light green. One other window in the northwest wall is still unappropriated. The Chancel walls to north and south are pierced with two rectang- ular windows in each, while in the clere-story of the nave are eight trefoil windows. The altar table of carved walnut was donated by Major P. K. Roots as a "Thank Offering." The Bishop's chair was donated by Mrs. John N. Jabine and her sister, Miss Georgine Woodruff. The Rector's chair was donated by the Chancel Guild. The font and Bible were donated by the Young Ladies' Guild. The handsome vesti- bule is lighted from the south by two rectangular windows, the staircase closing the north wall, originally designed for two similar ones.
Dr. Tupper did not remain to enjoy the fruition of his eleven years' labor. His conservatism had been a rock of refuge in this age of radicalism. Secure in the affections and approbation of his congregation, which was uncompromisingly of Low Church principles, he had pursued "the even tenor of his way," making a sermon of his life. The ceremonial of pomp and display of vestments was not acceptable to the mass of Episcopalians in the State. Church history may bear witness
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to the usage of this elaborate ceremonial, but the testimony of the four evangelists and the apostles does not show it to have been established by the Divine Head of the Church on earth. He wore a distinctive dress, it is true, described by St. John as "without seam, woven from the top throughout," but there is no mention of albs, stoles, cassocks, chasubels, copes, and mitres in the accounts of His priestly wardrobe. "The breastplate and ephod, the robe and broidered coat, a mitre and girdle made of gold, of blue, of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen" may be the right things to wear in a Jew- ish tabernacle, but are they anywhere prescribed for the ministers of Christ ?
Dr. Tupper decided to accept a call to Leavenworth, Kan., which seemed to come to him providentially in a painful crisis of mental doubt. He announced his inten- tion of leaving for that place and that he would preach his farewell sermon to his Little Rock parishioners on June 6. His resignation took effect June 1. The farewell sermon was preached on the first Sunday after Ascension from the text "Love one another," John xv. 12. He left for Kansas without his family, but was recalled to conduct the burial ser- vices of the Senior Warden, Luke E. Barber, who died on Sunday morning, the 13th of June. On the 16th Dr. Tup- per took his departure for Kansas, accompanied by his family. The Church, which was begun when he took charge of the parish, was finished outwardly, but he did not see the completion of the work he had so long overlooked.
"So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth ; but God that giveth the increase."
At this writing, Dr. Tupper is in charge of Christ Church, Portsmouth, Ohio, where he is most highly esteemed. An extract from a Portsmouth paper says :
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Dr. Tupper gave two excellent sermons at All Saints'
Church. The morning discourse was of the nature of a beautiful lecture upon the thought "As he thinketh in his heart so he is."
The illustration used was Hawthorne's Intelligence Office and the "Book of Wishes."
For the evening sermon the text was St. Luke xix. 12-13. "A certain nobleman went into a far country, and he called his ten servants and delivered them ten pounds and said unto them, occupy till I come."
This sermon was a helpful, earnest talk.
Dr. Tupper's dignity and polished diction and forcible gestures add much to the strength of his really fine sermons.
The outlook for the Episcopal Churches in Portsmouth is exceeding promising.
Dr. Tupper comes to us when the weather is almost un- bearable, yet he has gone about among his people unceasingly and serenely as if the mercury registered at the most delight- ful point. There is hardly a member of his congregation who feels that Dr. Tupper is a stranger, his sympathies are so quick and his manner so cordial.
A. D. 1833-1871. The Junior Warden who succeeded Luke E. Barber as Senior Warden, during Dr. Tupper's in- cumbency was Richard Henry Parham, son of Richard Hill and Henrietta Elizabeth Parham, who was born in Sussex County, Va., December 18, 1833. His ancestors have been residents of Virginia from early colonial days. His grand- parents on his father's side have been Methodist preachers in Virginia for more than a hundred years. Mr. Parham's aneestors on his father's side were Parhams and Hills; on his mother's side, they were Parhams, Booths, and Blands. In 1843 his family moved overland from Virginia to Mar- shall County, Miss. So difficult then were means of travel that it took two weeks to make the trip of fifty miles from
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their Mississippi home to Memphis. The only railroad in the South was the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. Mr. Parham's earliest recollections are associated with the cutting of timbers by his father's negroes for the construction of this railway.
Mr. Parham was educated in the elements of learning in an old field school, as such schools were called in those days. In his seventeenth year he entered the freshman class in the University of Mississippi at Oxford, and graduated in 1854.
After leaving the university, Mr. Parham taught school occasionally, but he spent the greater part of his time on his father's plantation pursuing his favorite studies. In those days he was strongly inclined to the ministry. Theology was his favorite study. In 1858 he was married to Ora C. Treze- vant, daughter of Brooks Robards Trezevant and Rachel Godwin Trezevant, in Memphis, Tenn. Rt. Rev. Bishop Otey performed the marriage ceremony. Since marriage, Mr. Parham has lived the greater part of the time in Little Rock, having moved to that city June 28, 1871. Since he came to Little Rock, except the first year, he has been con- tinuously engaged in teaching. He has two daughters living, Godwin, wife of Mr. Gray Carroll, and Ora, wife of Mr. Powell Clayton, both of Little Rock. There are two granddaughters, Godwin and Courtney Carroll, and one grandson, John Middleton Clayton.
Major Parham has been a valuable and highly esteemed member of Christ Church for many years, having served in the capacity of Secretary, Junior and Senior Warden. As he passes along the decline of life, his path is embellished with the tempered sunshine of an approving conscience and the flowers of good deeds done. He resigned the office of Junior Warden to
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COLONEL S. L. GRIFFITH.
A. D. 1818-1866. Colonel S. L. Griffith was born in Harford County, Md., in 1818, and on attaining his majority moved to Fort Smith, Ark., in 1839. He married Elizabeth Nicks in 1844. Of this marriage there were two sons, John Nieks and George Nicks Griffith, who both died in infancy. Colonel and Mrs. Griffith moved to Little Rock in 1866 and became members of Christ Church. He was for some years a member of the Vestry and was chosen Junior Warden in 1885. He died in Little Rock January, 1893, after a long and successful career as a leading dry goods merchant. He was a thoroughly refined gentleman, and is affectionately remembered by his early friends. He was buried in Mount Holly Cemetery.
CHRIST CHURCH RECTORY.
A. D. 1849-1866. During the incumbency of Rev. Andrew F. Freeman as Rector of Christ Church there was no demand for a Rectory, as he, with his father and mother, lived in their own residence ; but when Bishop Lay succeeded to the jurisdiction of Arkansas and also to the office of Rector of Christ Church, he saw the need of one, and urged his par- ishioners to enter upon some plan for erecting a home for future ministers. The "Ladies' Aid Society," which was organized at that time, with Mrs. Sim Bostick president, and Mrs. Charles G. Scott as vice president, began to devise ways and means for collecting funds with this object in view.
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