eGGSA Graves - Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape, FORT BEAUFORT, Urban area / Eastern Cape, FORT BEAUFORT, Main cemetery / D - Vanne :: Surnames - D / (15 of 83 images)

on 22.09.1953 Rev Percy William Ernest WOODWARD, aged 55, drove a car that collided with a train. Desmond Charles Joseph DEACON, aged 13, was injured and died at Port Elizabeth hospital. Rev WOODWARD died 26.09.1953. Letter by Andrew Hunter, Dean at Grahamstown Cathedral wrote in 2018: "We recently received an old Bible which used to belong to Fr Percy William Ernest Woodward. He was ordained to the priesthood here in the Cathedral on 24 February 1929, by Bishop Francis Phelps, who later became Archbishop of Cape Town. Fr Woodward was serving at St John’s Fort Beaufort when he was tragically killed at a railway level crossing on Cape Road, in 1953. His Bible was found in the wreckage of his car and was passed onto the Ramsay family. The family have now given it to us. The Bible has clearly been well used. Its flyleaves are full of notes, verses, thoughts." "South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W5GM-HLT2 : 10 March 2021), Desmond Charles Joseph Deacon, 22 Sep 1953, Cape Province, South Africa; citing National Archives, Pretoria; FHL microfilm .

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