George C. Abbitt This is Me

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   GEORGE C. ABBITT was born at Appomattox, Virginia, five years before the surrender of General Lee. He was a son of Dr. William H. and Sarah Plunkett Abbitt.
   
   He was educated at the Richmond College, where he secured his M.A. degree, and was a member of the Phi Delta Fraternity. In 1886, he was a full graduate of the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Ky., after which he taught Latin and Greek in the Rugby School. His first pastorate was of the Baptist Church at Bedford City, Virginia.
   
   Then he was made assistant principal of the Southwest Virginia Institute, now Intermont College, at Bristol, Virginia.
   
   In 1892, he became a postulant for orders in the Episcopal Church, and was ordained by Bishop Whittle, of Virginia, in 1893. His first rectorship was of St. Mark's Church, at Richmond, Virginia. Later he was rector of the Church of the Ascension at Mount Sterling, Ky., and was later principal of the Eversley Seminary. On June 5, 1902, he accepted the call, and took charge as rector of Grace Episcopal Church at Hopkinsville. For fifteen years he was an examining chaplain of the Diocese of Kentucky.
   
   As a deputy from Kentucky he was a member of the House of Deputies at the Triennial Conventions of the Episcopal Church for the years of 1913, 1916, 1919 and 1925. In 1922, he was first alternate to the Triennial Convention at Portland, Oregon.
   
   In 1889. he was married to Miss Emma Josephine Auguste, of Richmond, Virginia, a member of an old Virginia family.