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 ELLIOTT

ELLIOTT

the services of the Episcopal church and comhict- ing. with the assistance of his family, a large Sunday school which was attended by the chil- dren of iHJtIi races. He died at Beaufort, S.C, Marcli i:}. l%(i.

ELLIOTT, Stephen, first hishopof Georgia and 37th in succession in the American episcopate, was lH)rn in Beaufort. S.C. Aug. 31. 180G; son of Prof. Stephen and Esther (Hal)ersham) Elliott. He was graduated at Harvard. A.B., 1«4. A.M., 1827. He was a lawyer in Cliarlestou and Beaufort. S.C, 1827-33. He then became a candidate for holy orders in the Protestant Episcopal church and was ordained a deivcon in 183.5 and a priest in 1836. He was professor of sacred liter.iture and revealed religion in South Carolina college, 1835-41. In 1840 he was elected the first bishop of Georgia and was consecrated Feb. 28, 1841. The diocese at its formation in 1823 mcludeil the entire state, and the three lumdred communicants were min- istered to by seven clergymen. Bishop Elliott ailded to his duties the rectorship of St. John's cliurch, Savannah. In 184.5 he resigned the rector- sliip to take charge of the Female institute at !Monti>elier. Ga. He assumed the management ami with it a large debt, a nd resided in Montpelier, 184.5-.53. In 1844 he was made provincial bisho[) of Florida, being succeeded in 1851 bj' Bishop Rutledge. the first his lop of the diocese. He assmued the rectorship of Christ church, Savan- nali. in 1853. and was one of the projectors in 1856 of the University of the South to be placed under charge of the Protestant Episcopal church. With Bishop Polk of Louisiana he canvassed the south- em states in its interest, which resulted in secur- ing a subscription of §500.000 and a charter from the state of Tennessee with a gift of 10.000 acres of lanil. He laid the corner stone of the institution at Sewanee, Tenn., in 1861, but the civil war put an end to the subscription. He was also a prime mover in the organization of the general council of the church in the southern states, signing with Bisliop Polk the letter simimoning the southern diocese to meet by their deputies, and at the meeting of the bureau guiding their deliberations. He succeedeil Bishoj* Meade as the senior bishop of the general council in 18G2 and in 1865 took an active part in bringing about the reunion of the two branches of the church severed by the war. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Columbia and Trinity in 1840 and that of D.D. from the University of Georgia in 1841. He was married Nov. 18. 1828, to his cou.sin. Mary Gibbes, daugh- ter of Col. Robert W. Barnwell. LL.D.. and after her decea.*^. to his cousin. Charlotte Bull, daugh- ter of John G. Barnwell and granddaughter of Gen. John Barnwell and of Gen. Steplien Bull, both of the Revolutionary army. He died in Savannal). Ga., Dec. 21, 1866.

ELLIOTT, Stephen, soldier, was born in Beau- fort. S.C. Oct. 20. 1830; son of the Rev. Ste- phen and Ann Hutson (Habersliam) Elliott; grand.son of William and Phoebe (Waiglit) Elliott, and of John and Ann (Barnwell) Habers- ham; and great-grandson of William and Mary Gibbes (Barnwell) Elliott. He went to Harvard in 1846 and thence to the South Carolina college, from which he was grad- uated in 1850. He en- gaged in planting with marked success. At the outbreak of the civil war he en- tered the Confederate service as captain of artillery; was in com- mand of Fort Beaure- gard at the battle of Port Royal. Nov. 7, 1861; was activelj- en- gaged in service on the coast of South Carolina; commanded the at- tack on Pinckney's Island in August, 1862, captur- ing many i^risoners; commanded the Confederate artillery at the fight at Pocataligo, Oct. 22, 1862; and was promoted to the rank of major. He was selected by General Beauregard to hold Fort Sum- ter which had been battered into a mass of almost shapeless ruin, and was the first to demonstrate that the fort could still be held. Entering upon his command on the night of Sept. 4, 1863. he repulsed the naval attack on the night of Sept. 7, taking one hundred and thirty prisoners, many of whom became his firm friends after the war. He was rapidly promoted through the several grades to that of brigadier general; was in com- mand in 1864 of that part of the Confederate line at Petersburg that was blown up by the explosion of the mine, and while rallying his men to the bloody repulse which followed he was shot through the body and Ins left arm was paralyzed. He was afterward in command of James Island, S.C, and commanded a brigade in the battle of Bentonville, in which he was severely injured. At the close of the war he returned to his home to find it in the possession of the Federal army. He took up his residence with his family in a small building on the seashore which had formerly found use as a rough shelter in his fishing expeditions, and for a time earneil his living as a fisherman. After the war, at his own request, he was pardoned by President Johnson, and in 1865 he was an unsuc- cessful candidate for representative in congress, his opponent being ex-Governor Aiken. He re- moved to Aiken. S.C, where he died Feb. 21, 1866.