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Preferred Citation

Henry Wall Journal, 1862-1887. Accession 50926. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Donation received from Kristina Deluise, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 17 April 2013, with thanks to Judy Riggs, Barbara Eisenberg, and Margaret Ann McChesney.

Biographical Information

Henry Wall was born on 6 May 1818 in Ireland. He earned an A.B. degree from Trinity College in Dublin, 1850, graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, 1852, and was ordained as a deacon in 1853. Over the course of his career in the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Wall served in the Diocese of Virginia, Diocese of Maryland, Diocese of Easton (Maryland), and for a time in the Diocese of Huron (Ontario, Canada). He married first, Jane Ferrar (d. 1854) in 1849, with whom he had two children; second, Judith Woodford Hansford (d. 1866) in 1856, with whom he had five children; and third, Julia Hansford in 1866. Henry Wall died in Kent County, Maryland, on 19 August 1889.

Scope and Content

Journal, 1862-1887, kept by Reverend Henry Wall (1818-1889), includes a record of "Ministrations performed in Alexandria, Virginia" (Sunday services at Grace Church, Christ Church Rectory, and Odd Fellows' Hall), 1862-1863; "Skeletons of Sermons" given by Wall in Alexandria; baptisms, marriages, and funerals performed, and communicants added, 1862-1863; account of salary as rector of Christ Church, West River, Maryland, 1867-1868; account of salary as rector of St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, and disposition of communions alms, 1868-1875; account of salary and collections while heading up the Goderich Township Mission, Diocese of Huron, Ontario, Canada, 1875-1876; distribution of communion alms and account of salary as rector of Bruton Parish, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1877-1880; amount of collections for missionaries and communion alms, and account of salary as rector of St. Thomas's Church, Hancock, Maryland, 1880-1882; and an account of collections, of disbursement of the offertory, and Henry's salary while rector of St. Paul's Parish, Kent County, Maryland, 1882-1887. The volume also includes family Bible records (copies filed separately as Library of Virginia Accession 50927), and typed notes pasted in by Margaret Ann McChesney Riggs (1932-1985), Wall's great-granddaughter, giving some background on the volume and Wall's career. Also included are two undated photographic portraits, identified by the donor as being of Rev. Wall and his wife (presumably his third wife, Julia Hansford Wall).