Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-15

many years the registrar of the parish, one
of its vestrymen. and its delegate to the
diocesan convention. There are no less
than thirty memorial gifts, all costly works
of art, bearing among the names of Cor
coran. Keith, Key, Ridgeley, Tyler Mat
theWs, Berry, Lyons. Hartley, Stuart, Cor
don, Marbury. Morton. Snyder, Abbot. Dun
lop. Wheatley. Magruder. Harry. Talcott
Boggs, Miller, Libbey, Slaughter, CAN'T and
Hoff.
DR.. Stuart is justly proud of the love
and liberality of his people so signally
evinced since he has been with them. The
records of the parish show that liberal Of
ferinSs have been made to missions and
charities. During the first eighteen years
OF his incumbency the parish of Grace
Church, Georgetown, was charge of
Christ Church, and in those years $50, 900
was given by his people to it's support
Christ Church reported 300 communicates
TO the convention this year. several active
working organizations and disbursements
for the year ending May last, amounting
to S1o, 43S.5S.
Officers of the Church.
Registrar. Henry s. Matthews. treasurer
VIM. B. Orme; wardens, VIM Wheatley,
Josh H. Bradley; assistant wardens, DR..
A Rhett Stuart, DIR. Louis Mackal, jr:
testrymen. NJ j. Adler VIM B. Orme. ].
HoldsWorth Gordon. Henry S. Matthews
benjamin Miller. George G. Boteler. L.
Downs Wilson and VIM. A. Gordon.
Electorate of Quarter of n Century.
During the quarter of a century covered
by DR.. Stuart's rectorate there have been
300 baptisms, 1874 combinations. 135 mar
riages, 80 burials. The rector has held
. $3.50 services and the church has given for
all purposes SD, S43.
The Rev. Dr. Albert Rhett Stuart. the
rector. was born in Charleston, s. c. Anri,
i, 1876 He comes from the Amerinan
ntyyre
genltor OF which came from Scotland he
lore the revolution. settled in Beaufort. 8
C.: and subsequently took sides with the
c"lonists in their struggle with the mother
country. His father. John Auan St,'art
was the editor of the Charleston Mercury
Irlor to the civil war and. when a how de-
oIlned adoption by his British kinsman the
ccEqueror OF Mazda for whom he had been
named ana who, in recognition of his vic
tory, was made knight of the Bath In Eng
ii'nd, and given the title of Count of Mazda
DE the KING of the two Settles
1T. stuart is related through intermar-
mage TO the MOores, the MiddIetons the
BarnWells and the Rhetts of the Carolinas
ne is nephew of the late R. BarnwelI
Rhett. senator from South Carolina and
oouli1s among mis- ancestors the colonial
governors, Sir John Yeamans, who founded
charleston, and Landgrave Smith who in
t'cduced rice planting into the south.
studies interrupted by War
he was prepared for college in his ma
tive city by his brother BENJAMIN r. Stuart
and had entered the South Carolina COLLAGE
snort time before 1t was closed by the
breaking out of the war. He enlisted as
private IN the confederate army and tool,
part In the defense of Charleston his mill
tary career ending at Greensboro. N q
When General DOS F. Johnston surrendered
very soon after the war Dr. Stuart he
came student of divinity; first at the sem
mary In Spartanburg. s. c., and then at the
Virginia seminary. He was ordained IN
tne dlaconate at St. Johns Church. Winns-
borO s c., July 81 1863; and was nriested
az trinity Church. Columbia S. c.. Julv 2
$50 After ministering in Chester. s G.
ana IN the adjoining counties of Union and
Lancaster for two years he accented the
charge of st. Paul's, ChiIIicothe. Ohio and
was rector there until the summer of 1916
wren on June IL of that year he assumed
the charge of Christ Church. Georgetown
d. G., where he has labored continuous1,,
1of quarter of a century
Dr Stuart was married in 1865 to Miss II
Sophla Clarkson of Columbia s. G. They
nave seven children. Two of his sons ave
attorneys two physicians and his Youngest
student. His eldest daughter married
Lieut. w. j. Barden of the Corns Of I'm
s1neers. L. s. A. His youngest made her
debut two years ago '~>
In 1873 the Columbia University confarroa
upon Mr.. Stuart the degree of doctor Of
divinity. o'oi VI