Born in St. James Santee.
Tribute-Elizabeth Catherine Porcher
During the past summer, Christ Church parish has sustained the loss of one of her most consecrated Church-women, in the death of Elizabeth Catherine, wife of Philip Edward Porcher of Oakland Plantation, in the 85th year of her age.
Mrs. Porcher was the daughter of Dr. John S. Palmer, and his wife, Esther Simons Palmer; and was born at Springfield Plantation, St. James’ Santee, April 19, 1833. From earliest childhood she was deeply religious, and throughout her long life, gentleness, unselfishness and piety were her unvarying characteristics.
Mrs. Porcher possessed to the end the full powers of a gifted mind and typified the highest culture of the ante bellum lady. She was sent to Charleston in 1847 to attend the school kept by Mrs. Murden and her daughters, and remained there three years.
In 1851 she married and remained for almost sixty-six years the stay and comfort of her husband. She may almost be said to have been the only teacher her children ever had. Her whole life was filled with deeds of love and self-forgetfulness. Everything that was hard or unpleasant she took eagerly upon herself.
But it is her work for the Church that will be longest remembered. During more than fifty years of plantation life she conducted in her home the services of the Church for her children, and as time went on, for her neighbors, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It was a striking and beautiful picture, recalling the days of the patriarchs, to see this venerable lady, with her husband beside her, surrounded by their descendants, leading them in the ways of their fathers. It was this faithful voice “crying in the wilderness” that kept alive the Church in the rural district and made possible the restoration and reopening of the Parish Church in recent years.
The end came suddenly on July 24, 1917, and she was laid to rest just before sunset in the yard of the old church she had loved and served so long.
The world is better that she lived.
“The Diocese”, Columbia, SC, December 1917
Copied by David J. Rutledge
Tribute-Elizabeth Catherine Porcher
During the past summer, Christ Church parish has sustained the loss of one of her most consecrated Church-women, in the death of Elizabeth Catherine, wife of Philip Edward Porcher of Oakland Plantation, in the 85th year of her age.
Mrs. Porcher was the daughter of Dr. John S. Palmer, and his wife, Esther Simons Palmer; and was born at Springfield Plantation, St. James’ Santee, April 19, 1833. From earliest childhood she was deeply religious, and throughout her long life, gentleness, unselfishness and piety were her unvarying characteristics.
Mrs. Porcher possessed to the end the full powers of a gifted mind and typified the highest culture of the ante bellum lady. She was sent to Charleston in 1847 to attend the school kept by Mrs. Murden and her daughters, and remained there three years.
In 1851 she married and remained for almost sixty-six years the stay and comfort of her husband. She may almost be said to have been the only teacher her children ever had. Her whole life was filled with deeds of love and self-forgetfulness. Everything that was hard or unpleasant she took eagerly upon herself.
But it is her work for the Church that will be longest remembered. During more than fifty years of plantation life she conducted in her home the services of the Church for her children, and as time went on, for her neighbors, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It was a striking and beautiful picture, recalling the days of the patriarchs, to see this venerable lady, with her husband beside her, surrounded by their descendants, leading them in the ways of their fathers. It was this faithful voice “crying in the wilderness” that kept alive the Church in the rural district and made possible the restoration and reopening of the Parish Church in recent years.
The end came suddenly on July 24, 1917, and she was laid to rest just before sunset in the yard of the old church she had loved and served so long.
The world is better that she lived.
“The Diocese”, Columbia, SC, December 1917
Copied by David J. Rutledge
Born in St. James Santee.
Tribute-Elizabeth Catherine Porcher
During the past summer, Christ Church parish has sustained the loss of one of her most consecrated Church-women, in the death of Elizabeth Catherine, wife of Philip Edward Porcher of Oakland Plantation, in the 85th year of her age.
Mrs. Porcher was the daughter of Dr. John S. Palmer, and his wife, Esther Simons Palmer; and was born at Springfield Plantation, St. James’ Santee, April 19, 1833. From earliest childhood she was deeply religious, and throughout her long life, gentleness, unselfishness and piety were her unvarying characteristics.
Mrs. Porcher possessed to the end the full powers of a gifted mind and typified the highest culture of the ante bellum lady. She was sent to Charleston in 1847 to attend the school kept by Mrs. Murden and her daughters, and remained there three years.
In 1851 she married and remained for almost sixty-six years the stay and comfort of her husband. She may almost be said to have been the only teacher her children ever had. Her whole life was filled with deeds of love and self-forgetfulness. Everything that was hard or unpleasant she took eagerly upon herself.
But it is her work for the Church that will be longest remembered. During more than fifty years of plantation life she conducted in her home the services of the Church for her children, and as time went on, for her neighbors, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It was a striking and beautiful picture, recalling the days of the patriarchs, to see this venerable lady, with her husband beside her, surrounded by their descendants, leading them in the ways of their fathers. It was this faithful voice “crying in the wilderness” that kept alive the Church in the rural district and made possible the restoration and reopening of the Parish Church in recent years.
The end came suddenly on July 24, 1917, and she was laid to rest just before sunset in the yard of the old church she had loved and served so long.
The world is better that she lived.
“The Diocese”, Columbia, SC, December 1917
Copied by David J. Rutledge
Tribute-Elizabeth Catherine Porcher
During the past summer, Christ Church parish has sustained the loss of one of her most consecrated Church-women, in the death of Elizabeth Catherine, wife of Philip Edward Porcher of Oakland Plantation, in the 85th year of her age.
Mrs. Porcher was the daughter of Dr. John S. Palmer, and his wife, Esther Simons Palmer; and was born at Springfield Plantation, St. James’ Santee, April 19, 1833. From earliest childhood she was deeply religious, and throughout her long life, gentleness, unselfishness and piety were her unvarying characteristics.
Mrs. Porcher possessed to the end the full powers of a gifted mind and typified the highest culture of the ante bellum lady. She was sent to Charleston in 1847 to attend the school kept by Mrs. Murden and her daughters, and remained there three years.
In 1851 she married and remained for almost sixty-six years the stay and comfort of her husband. She may almost be said to have been the only teacher her children ever had. Her whole life was filled with deeds of love and self-forgetfulness. Everything that was hard or unpleasant she took eagerly upon herself.
But it is her work for the Church that will be longest remembered. During more than fifty years of plantation life she conducted in her home the services of the Church for her children, and as time went on, for her neighbors, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It was a striking and beautiful picture, recalling the days of the patriarchs, to see this venerable lady, with her husband beside her, surrounded by their descendants, leading them in the ways of their fathers. It was this faithful voice “crying in the wilderness” that kept alive the Church in the rural district and made possible the restoration and reopening of the Parish Church in recent years.
The end came suddenly on July 24, 1917, and she was laid to rest just before sunset in the yard of the old church she had loved and served so long.
The world is better that she lived.
“The Diocese”, Columbia, SC, December 1917
Copied by David J. Rutledge
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