FRANCIS HUGER RUTTLEDGE died at Tallahassee, Florida, Nov. 6, 1866, in the 68th year of his age. He was the son of Chancellor Hugh Rutledge, of Charleston, S.C. and Mary, daughter of Benjamin Huger.
His early studies were pursued at the Charleston College, and at Abbeville, S.C. After graduation he remained in New Haven as a student in the General Theological Seminary of the Prot. Episc. Church. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Bowen of S. C, in 1823, and was ordained Priest by the same, at Charleston, Nov. 20, 1825. His first work was performed in the parish of St. Thomas and St. Dennis, and at Moultrieville, Sullivan's Island, S. C. His labors in his native State were most untiring, until his health, never robust, and his delicate constitution forced him to seek the more genial climate of Florida. In 1839, he became Rector of Trinity Church, St. Augustine, and in 1845, of St John's Church, Tallahassee. In 1844, he received the degree of D. D. from Hobart College. On the 15th of Oct., 1851, he was consecrated the first Bishop of the Diocese of Florida, in St. Paul's Church, Augusta, Ga. His health was feeble during the whole period of his Episcopate, and his retiring nature rendered him less known than his abilities and character deserved.
He was never married.
