The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-20

ficiaces in Calvary church. Hen
derson county, and st. James
parish. Hendersonville." Mr.
t,verhart's postoffice address wa.
.sShufordsy!lle, via Greenville.
Shufordsville IS now Fletcher
the name having been changed
in me late eighties. GreenvIll'
was for a long time the nearest
railway point. II Mr.. Everhart
actually lived in Buncombe, hi:
home must have been close TO the
county line. as his postOffice wa:
in Henderson county. In his re-
port 70 the 1861 convention MI
Everhart said:
st. James. HendersonvIl!e:
have found not one commun-
icanC belonging to this parish.
Two or three persons at one
tine in their lives did COM
mune. but tney decline nov 70
avail themselves Of this Holy
Sacrament. The prospect for
building up the church in this
place is not encouraging,
though NY congregations are
usually very good. COnCriou-
tons: diocesan missions So;
bishops salary SO; relief fund
50; total SO. G. NJ. Ever
hart
In the 1858 convention an in
vesc!gation was made OF the sta
tus Of the various parishes of
the diocese. and a resolution was
adopted stating that certain par
isles named in the resolution
haze ceased TO maintain their
as parishes and are
no longer entitled 20 represen-
tacion in the convention In
this list Of lapsed parishes were
Included all three Of the Episco-
pal churches in Henderson cOuE-
". ST. James 81. John s-in-the-
and Calvary. Mr..
Everharc had left the diocese and
had gone to Kentucky. ST.
James church. having already
lost is pastor. now lost its status
a q parish. status which it did
not regain until twenty-eight
years later. Bishop Atkinson
continued to pay his annual Wis
.catio2S: again and again his con-
addresses contain the
statement. Il preached at Hen
Jacksonville" But for a number
Of years there is no record Of
other services, though it is pos
sible that Mr.. Drayton of Flat
Rock may have come occasion
ally.
In the late seventies and early
eighties the Rev. +. 4. Osborne
was minister in charge Of Cal
vary church. During the last
two years of his stay there he
held occasional services at St.
James, but never oftener than
one Sunday in the month. One
IF the members OF Calvary
church, Miss Matte Fletcher, of
Shufordsyille, a daughter Of DR..
G. W. Fletcher. married young
of Henderson county,
Dr.. James l.. Egerton, son of DR.:
Thomas L. Egerton, and moved
with her husband TO Henderson
Vile. Their home was on the the
east side of Main street, between
College and Academy streets
now known as Third and Fourth
avenues). Mrs. Egerton was a
oval and active member Of St.
James church. Two Of her
daughters. Mrs. W. r. Kirk and
Mrs. ErSkine Ehringhaus. are
now living in Hendersonville.
In 1883 occurred the first par
.ition Of the old diocese of North
Carolina. The eastern counties
IF the state were erected into the
diocese Of East Carolina, DR..
Watson being elected bishop. The
Of the state retained
The old diocesan name and the
I'D bishop, DR.. T. B. Lyman.
Shortly after Mr.. Osborne left
county the Rev. Ric'-
ard Wainwright came to Bow
mans Bluff, where a few Eng
ish families were then living.
Their presence. there has given
rise to the legend of an English
colony" The word colony was
quite inaccurate; the group can
best be described by the phrase
which a pessimistic Greek philo-
Sopher coined to describe the
genesis of the universe, "a for
,uitous concourSe of atoms" One
family happened to settle there
n 1881, and other families or in
lividuals accidentally trickled in
during the next seven years, aft
er which time they began to scat
ter. Most of them were Episco-
palians, and it was their custom
to meet every Sunday morning
when one of their number said
the office of morning prayer.
Mr.. Wainwright was an English
man who had been a missionary
in various fields, including Lab
rador and Honolulu. Arrange
ments were made for him to act
as minister in charge at both