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Rev. George Badger Wetmore

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Rev. George Badger Wetmore

Birth
New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, USA
Death
10 Jun 1888 (aged 65)
Banner Elk, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Banner Elk, Avery County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Rev. G.B. Wetmore, a prominent Episcopal Clergyman, well known in Cabarrus county, died at Banner Elk, Watauga County, on June 10th. He was 65 years old. For thirty years he was in charge of Episcopal Churches in our neighboring county of Rowan. He was a prominent and effective temperance worker in the State.

(The Standard - Concord, North Carolina - Friday, June 15, 1888 - Page 3)

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GEORGE BADGER, Rev., b. in Newbern, Feb. 16, 1823; m. in Fayetteville, N.C., June, 1850, Rose Hall; had William Hall, George Badger, Annie Troy, Samuel Hinsdale.

He graduated at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, June, 1844; studied law under his uncle, the Hon. George E. Badger; was admitted an attorney in 1847; practiced his profession a few years, when he turned his attention to divinity; was ordained deacon in Christ Church, Raleigh, Jan., 1855, by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of North Carolina, and priest at Salisbury, N.C., and adjacent Episcopal parishes and missionary stations.

The Wetmore Family of America, and Its Collateral Branches: With Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Notices by James Carnahan Wetmore (1861) - Page 481
Rev. G.B. Wetmore, a prominent Episcopal Clergyman, well known in Cabarrus county, died at Banner Elk, Watauga County, on June 10th. He was 65 years old. For thirty years he was in charge of Episcopal Churches in our neighboring county of Rowan. He was a prominent and effective temperance worker in the State.

(The Standard - Concord, North Carolina - Friday, June 15, 1888 - Page 3)

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GEORGE BADGER, Rev., b. in Newbern, Feb. 16, 1823; m. in Fayetteville, N.C., June, 1850, Rose Hall; had William Hall, George Badger, Annie Troy, Samuel Hinsdale.

He graduated at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, June, 1844; studied law under his uncle, the Hon. George E. Badger; was admitted an attorney in 1847; practiced his profession a few years, when he turned his attention to divinity; was ordained deacon in Christ Church, Raleigh, Jan., 1855, by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of North Carolina, and priest at Salisbury, N.C., and adjacent Episcopal parishes and missionary stations.

The Wetmore Family of America, and Its Collateral Branches: With Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Notices by James Carnahan Wetmore (1861) - Page 481


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