272, 273, The following statistics of St. Luke’s Parish may prove of interest to the curious. Under Mr. Davis, confirmations, 33; baptisms, 90. Under Mr. Parker, confirmations, 35; baptisms, 105. Under Mr. Haughton, confirmations, 29; baptisms, 110. Under Mr. Tillinghast, confirmations, 86; baptisms, 53. Under Mr. Murdock, confirmations, 132; baptisms, 128. During Mr. Murdock’s rectorship of eight years, the communicants have increased more than one hundred per cent. The number of communicants in the county is 224; of which there are at St. Luke’s, 118; at Christ Church, 72; and at St. Andrew’s, 34. The whole number of Episcopal Church people is about seven hundred. The largest confirmation class under Mr. Davis-May 16, 1840-numbered nine, including John B. Lord, Mrs. Ann Lord, Misses Julia Beard, Christian Howard, and others. Some of the names in the other classes are William Chambers, Charles Wheeler, William Locke, William Murphy, Marcus Beard, Samuel R Harrison, Eliza Miller, Jane Wheeler, Ellen Woolworth, Ellen Howard, Rose Howard, Mary S. Henderson, and Augusta M. Locke. Mr. Parker’s largest class numbered 12 March 28, 1858-including John Willis Ellis, Louisa M. Shober, Julia Ann Blackmer, Alice Jones, Sarah H. Mitchel, Ann Macay, and Ellen Sumner. Some of the names in the other classes are Mary Murphy, Julia Long, Helen B. Bryce, Sophie Pearson, Mary McRorie, Laura Hend erson, Jane A. Howard, Luke Blackmer, Nathaniel Boyden, James Murphy. Mr. Haughton0s largest class numbered eleven-January 29, 1860-including Archibald Henderson, John M. Coffin, Fanny Miller, H. C. Jones, Jr., Frances C. Fisher. Some of the names in the other classes are Mary Locke, J. M. Jones, Elizabeth Vanderford, Henrietta Hall, Annie McB. Fisher, Alice L. Pearson. Mr. Tillinghast’s largest class-November 21, 1869-numbered eight, including Laura C. Murphy, John R. Ide, Julia Ide. Some of the names in the other classes are Robert Murphy, Jr., Charlotte C. Mock, Anna May Shober, Lewis Hanes, Mary E. Murphy, Leonora Beard, May F. Henderson. Mr. Murdock’s largest class-October 6, 1873-numbered thirty-four, including Francis E. Shober, Jr., William C. Blackmer, William Howard, A. J. Mock, and Fanny Kelly. Some of the names in the other classes are Walter H. Holt, Charles F. Baker, Peter A. Frercks, Belle Boyden, Joseph O. White, Annie Rowzee, Caroline McNeely, Penelope Bailey, Clarence W. Murphy, Annie Cuthrell, George A. Kluttz, and Lillian Warner. Some of the most influential and distinguished names which have adorned the annals of Rowan County have been communicants or 273 HISTORY OF ROWAN COUNTY adherents of the Episcopal Church. I have already spoken of the ante-Revolutionary period. Between that period and the year 1823, when Bishop Ravencroft made his first visitation to Salisbury, the following may be confidently claimed as friendly to Episcopacy, to wit: Maxwell Chambers, Matthew Tray, Anthony and John Newnan, Thomas Frohock, Lewis Beard, Spruce Mac ay, Alfred Macay, Matthew and Francis Locke, Joseph and Jesse A. Pearson, John L. and Archibald Henderson, John Steele, William C. Love, and many others. 338 FORTY-NINTH REGIMENT COMPANY C Officers P. B. Chambers, Capt.; pr. to Major; resigned. 339 FORTY-NINTH REGIMENT COMPANY C Private Chambers, R. M.; en. March 19, 1862; a. 22; d. of d. April 23, 1863.