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[Grace Cangialosi]

Clarissa, Coleman McGehee was Bishop of the Diocese of Michigan; I don’t believe he was ever in Alaska. Before he was elected Bishop, he was rector of a church across from Virginia Seminary in Alexandria. He was originally from Virginia.

> On May 11, 2019, at 12:47 AM, Clarissa Canning <canplum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> well that Bishops name rings bad memories for me . My Dad started with him
> the under the other who did Alaska .  I am sure hated my Dad . AHy keast I
> got listened to my Mehgee but he had no jurisdiction at the time to help .
> So glad that’s long in the past and it doesn’t matter now .
> 
>> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 3:25 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I know! I just could never figure out the extra letters!
>> 
>>> On May 2, 2019, at 6:02 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sounded like McGee.
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:56 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I loved Coleman McGehee!
>>>> (Never could make sense of the spelling of his last name, though!)
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 2, 2019, at 5:40 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> At the Great Vigil of Easter in 1986 in Detroit Cathedral, it was quite
>>>> the
>>>>> display of accents between Bp. H. Coleman McGehee's Tidewater and Dean
>>>>> Bertram Nelson Herlong's Florida-but-just-below-Georgia accent. I
>>>>> distinctly recall the collect of the day, in which the Dean prayed that
>>>> we
>>>>> would "dah daily to see-in." He had a quite stately way of reading a
>> text
>>>>> and very deeply southern accent. At any rate, neither of them sounded
>>>> like
>>>>> Detroit! :)
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:32 PM Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We had Priest from Virginia who read the gospel “my hoose is a hoose
>> of
>>>>>> preyeur.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 2, 2019, at 4:25 PM, Allan Carr via Magdalen <
>>>>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Similarly, I doubt I ever used such a pronunciation. At Jarvis
>>>> Collegiate
>>>>>> in Toronto, Bible readings at assemblies were read by the student
>>>> assigned
>>>>>> with a proper British accent as prescribed by King James (true, as
>>>> silly as
>>>>>> it sounds).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Allan Carr
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On May 2, 2019, at 9:13 AM, Marion Thompson <
>> marionwhitevale at gmail.com
>>>>> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Had I ever said ‘oot’ and ‘a-boot’  my mother would have smacked me
>>>>>> silly.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Scott R. Knitter
>>>>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Scott R. Knitter
>>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>