The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-08

7 7 "as In tho year 1870 that Coione
william Byrd offered for 4 church
= site 20 the vesfry Of Henrlco par
ism TWO Of the best lots n Richmond
that are not taken NJ. and any pine
timber they can nnd on that side
shocHoe creek. and WOOD for burning
Of bricks into the Bargain So quotes
Miss Louisa Blair Ia a Richmond HIS
torical Calendar. complied 10y her and
he! sister some years ago. calendar
which has since proved a most inval.
liable ready reference for dates and
events.
Miss Blair goes on to ten mat the
Vestry accepted Colonel Byrds offer
and decided 10 buMd the church .on
the nil called Indian Town a; Rich
mond. They ordered the building 10
be sixty feet Long and Twenty ave
broad 20 be finished IN a plain manner
after tho NOODLE OF Curtis Church"
June i0 l7ii. is the supposed da.
OF the completion OF a building then
indlvdualized as tho Church a, Rich
mond now called old 81 Johns
chape! n tho falls OF James River was
after this abandoned and services In
ausurated at what vas then the new
church. Through tho Years 81 the
eighteenth century and into the nine
teenih - JOINS on the Hin held its
precedence on November 10. 1915
Monumental Church erected on tho
site Of the theatre burned IN 1911 Vas
consecrated by ri. ROY. Richard Chan.
nins Moore. OF Parsonage House.
Staten Island and rector Of $,
stephens. New York City. called from
81 stephens to Monumental ana
elected Bishop OF the Diocese az VIZ
sinia May 1, 1914. HIS first EPISCOPAL
aet was the conservation of Monument
tai. MS cathedral church throuehou,
opric
No man of his day and generation
nad greater and more benefcent in
nuence upon the people Of the civ ana
diocese under his Jurisdiction NJ ~
j. remembered with greater Affection
not only by those who sat under The
inspiration OF his teachings. but hi
eit!zens OF Richmond and Virginia a,
large. who We're bound to hin, nv ,ias
OF relationship or OF privileged friend
ship and association.
OF Distinguished Ancestrv
Behind the bishop Law ,o,e H..
OF distin sulshed ancestry ne being dc
scended through his English Inc from
sir Francis Moore, Of Fawlev Rar,.s
COUNTY, an eminent Statesman In tha|
tiTne OF Elizabeth. and knighted nv
lanes In 1915. The American pro.
sshltor Of the Moore family was Hon
'".' MORE. OF Moore Hall, Charleston
;. G. and Philadelphia, pa who 80
ried Lady Rebecca. dauehte, ~ 49, .'.d
ANten hereditary peer of ,ba no 49,
ION Of Carolina. When John No..
VINO was collector OF customs ~, -
port or Philadelphia. died he
hurled In Christ Church. thai cir.
winch ne was vestryman He ,..,sa
lay IN st Peters Church. Cbes,er
The eldest son of Hon. John Moore
o. o. rh.ilsdelphia. was John Moore of
Moore Foliy- on the Hudson. nesr
West Point. and white Hal, N Wa,a
fork city, member of the KINGS
councll and vestryman of TrinI,,.
church. His wife. Frances 1smbar;
was of Huguenot descent. and these
Two were the grandparents of Bishon
n, ms parents being Thomas
Moo'e IT, OF White Hail. and Eliza
Channins' of Middleton n. J. White
nan the home of Thomas Moore II
had oeen acquired by purchase from
the Corporation of New York HAVING
neen built before 1861 for his own
use by Peter Stuyvesant.
The seventh Son.
Richard Charming Moore was the
g. 'c"'H Soh IN q idHily That included
eleven sons and daughters. He was
ordained priest. September. 1851. in
st. Georges Church. New York city.
and Immediately became rector OF
Grace Church, Rye New York From
Grace Church he went to st. Andrews.
staten Island, thence for FIVE years
to st. Stephens New York and
thence to Monumental Church, Rich
n'tnG.
~ lot
After the burning of the theatre on
December 26. 1871. the municipality
OF Richmond, cooperating with a COM
mittee of citizens. Chief Justice John
Marshall being chairman. decreed that.
an proper memorial OF the dread