Chapter IV: Election to the Episcopate

24. Cheshire to Nannie C. Hoke, February 16, 1891, Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire Papers, North Carolina Historical Commission.

25. Rev. Robert B. Owens to L. F. London, July 8, 1938. Mr. Owens was a member of the adjourned convention of 1893. This letter contains a description of the proceedings of that convention.

26. Dr. Stephen B. Weeks was the friend Cheshire referred to. The wedding took place in Randolph County.

27. Cheshire to Dr. Joseph B. Cheshire, Sr., June 29, 1893, Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire Papers, North Carolina Historical Commission.

28. Cheshire to Sallie Badger Hoke, July 3, 1893, Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire Papers, North Carolina Historical Commission.

29. Rev. Francis J. Murdoch in an open letter to Rev. E. A. Osborne, 1893, Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire Papers, North Carolina Historical Commission.