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Historic Markers Across South CarolinaHenry McNeal Turner
Text: Historical Bicentennial marker In memory of Henry McNeal Turner 1834-1915 Birthplace: Newberry, South Carolina - Boyhood home: Abbeville, South Carolina Missionary Pioneer to South Africa, Liberation Theologian, Social and Political Activist, First Black United States Military Chaplain, Consecrated Twelfth Bishop, African Methodist Episcopal Church -- 1880 -- Senior Bishop Henry Wendell Murph Active Bishops John Hurst Adams, Richard Allen Hildebrand, Samuel Solomon Morris, Jr., Frederick Hilborn Talbot, Manel Hartford Brooking, Vinton Randolph Anderson Frederick Calhoun James, Frank Madison Reid, Jr., Frank Curtis Cummings, Philip Robert Cousin, Donald George Ring, Reuben Edwards Stokes Cornelius Egbert Thomas, James Haskell Mayo, Harold Benjamin Senatll, Robert Lee Pruitt, Henry Allen Bestin, Jr., Vernon Randolph Byrd Retired Bishops Decatur ward Nichols, Howard Thomas Primm, Ernest Laerence Mc????, Harrison James Bryant, Harold Irvin Deakden, Robert Nelson Robinson Marker Dedicated at Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church Abbeville, South Carolina April 5, 1987 |