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Baptisms 1858-1914, St. George’s Records
This is Trip’s research into our Parish records from 1858-1913
St. George’s Church Records
Trip Wiggins is our archivist, tour guide of the graveyard, researcher and archivist of the church as well as Sunday morning Christian education teacher. Here is a story about St. George’s Church records. We will feature his research on baptisms, marriages and burials starting on Oct. 10.
Lighting the Ascension Window 1947-2007
On December 8, 1947, a young Rev. Thomas Faulkner in his second year at St. George’s completed a letter to attorney (and future federal judge) John Butzner and prepared that an affidavit that explained an embarrassing situation that had surfaced involving the Ascension stained glass windows. The Ascension Windows are the oldest stained glass windows … Read more
Getting Started in St. George's History - 6 essential resources
Selections from several categories of our history.
McGuire served all 3 churches over the course of 45 years. He is probably the most influential of all our rectors in all phases of ministry from preaching, teaching, and outreach. Trip Wiggins, our archivist, wrote this for a Sunday school class and has been teaching classes for years
6. Tom Faulkner confronts the Vestry on race
Faulkner served St. George's for 30 years from 1946-1976. During these years racial policies were paramount, especially 1954, in the year of Brown vs. Board of Education, Faulkner was challenged by the Vestry on the role of Blacks in our service. He was able to move St. George's toward racial justice that other rectors would further
