Milestones
Records of early church services, baptisms, weddings, and funerals are sketchy at best due to the absence of detailed records.
There are no baptisms listed in the records for 1938. Church records indicate that the first baptism held in the rebuilt church may have been on August 10, 1939 when Roy and Esther Northup had six of their children baptized: Marguerite, Claude, Harold, Geraldine, Eric and Irving. The next baptism recorded for St. Stephen's was on November 1, 1939 when Gordon and Alice Campbell's twin daughters, Lulu and Leona, were baptized.
Not many marriage licenses of the day indicated church weddings. Most weddings seem to have been performed in private homes. Early records indicate that Grover Beazley and Ellen Smith were married in the original church on August 8, 1922 as were Roderick Dorman and Villa Campbell on June 29, 1927. There were no marriages recorded in the 1930s which specifically indicate that they occured in the church.
The first funeral held in the rebuilt church was that of C. S. (Stanley) Clark on December 16, 1938. Stanley Clark was Warden during the rebuilding of the church and a tribute to him appears in the 1939 minutes of the Annual Meeting of St. Paul's Parish of Rawdon:
"The following resolution was moved by the members of Rawdon annual meeting to express their hearty appreciation of services rendered this Parish by their late Warden C. S. Clark and in particular his untiring zeal in the rebuilding of St. Stephen's Church. It is the earnest prayer of the meeting that Mrs. Clark and her family may find in (the) Chruch true and lasting consolation."
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