The earliest mention of Christmas found in our Archives collections dates from December 23, 1756. The Rev. Thomas Bacon, rector of St. Peter’s Parish in Oxford, Talbot County, wrote to Henry Callister, an Oxford merchant.
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But the person who pushed hardest and longest for Thanksgiving to become a national holiday is unknown to most Americans. Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of Godey’s Ladies’ Book, and author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, began her one-woman crusade in 1827, saying, “We have too few holidays. Thanksgiving, like the Fourth of July, should be considered a national festival and observed by all our people.”
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The bell tower was completed in January of 1893, and contained the well which supplied water for the rectory. The water was pumped up into the rectory attic and ran down by gravity. Inscribed on the tower are these words, “This bell was cast august 1885. ‘God, I praise the living, I call the dead, I lament.’
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The Rev. Alice Moore Bassett-Jellema, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Guardian Angel in the Remington neighborhood of Baltimore, died at home November 2 from a glioblastoma. The Baltimore resident was 62.
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As Bishop Curry said in his sermon at Ron’s memorial service, “Ron and Mary were so bound together by powerful love, that they gave their lives for their family, and for their church family. Now they are in the hands of God whose powerful love will never let them go.”
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