Theodore DuBose Bratton

The Right Reverend

Theodore DuBose Bratton

D.D.
Bishop of Mississippi
ProvinceEpiscopal Church
DioceseMississippi
Elected1903
In office1903–1938
PredecessorHugh Miller Thompson
SuccessorWilliam Mercer Green
Orders
OrdinationSeptember 23, 1888
by William B. W. Howe
ConsecrationSeptember 29, 1903
by Thomas Underwood Dudley
Personal details
BornNovember 11, 1862
Winnsboro, South Carolina, Confederate States
DiedJune 26, 1944(1944-06-26) (aged 81)
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
BuriedCedar Lawn Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi)
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican
ParentsJohn Simpson Bratton & Elizabeth Porcher DuBose
SpouseLucy Beverly Randolph (m. 1888, d. 1905)
Ivy Wardlaw Perrin (m. 1906, d. 1938)
Children2
Alma materSewanee: The University of the South

Theodore DuBose Bratton (November 11, 1862 – June 26, 1944) was a bishop of Mississippi in The Episcopal Church and the chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans.

Early life

Bratton was born on November 11, 1862, near Winnsboro, South Carolina.[1][2] He graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1887 and a bachelor of divinity in 1889.[1]

Career

Bratton was the rector of the Church of the Advent in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1892.[2] He was founder of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Greenwood, South Carolina, in 1892–1897.[2] He was a teacher at St Mary's School for Girls in Raleigh, North Carolina, until 1903.[1][2]

Bratton was appointed as a bishop of Mississippi in The Episcopal Church in 1903.[1][2] In 1929, he was appointed as the chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans.[3]

Personal life and death

Bratton resided in Jackson, Mississippi, where he died on June 26, 1944, at 82.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Bratton, Theodore DuBose". The Episcopal Church. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Was Known Here". The Index-Journal. Greenwood, South Carolina. July 1, 1944. p. 3. Retrieved May 1, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Rev. Theodore D. Bratton Is Given U. C. V. Post". The Owensboro Messenger. December 10, 1929. p. 5. Retrieved May 1, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.