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Episcopalian minister.
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Clarence Henry Jordan was an Episcopal minister, serving in South Carolina, and at some time moving to Tarpon Springs, Florida. He was in Tarpon Springs by 1932. According to the book, "A Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopa1 Church in South Carolina, 1820-1957", by Albert Sidney Thomas (R.L. Bryan Company: Columbia, S.C., 1957), Rev. Jordan served in the following churches in South Carolina as rector:
- St. John’s Parish in Berkeley from the spring of 1904 to September, 1906
- Trinity in Pinopolis from 1905 to October, 1906
- Church of the Nativity in Union from September, 1906 to about 1913
- Calvary Church in Glenn Springs from October, 1906 to 1912
- All Saints’ in Calhoun Falls (now extinct) from 1912 to ab;out 1917
- Church of the Resurrection in Greenwood from 1912 to 1916
- Saint Stephen’s in Willington from 1912 to 1916
- All Saints’ in Clintonin 1916
- Trinity Church in Abbeville in 1916
Richard G. Lynes, who knew him, wrote "He believed that all children should be raised in a barrel and fed through the bung hole (still referring to the barrel)."
