Washington County News | 1938-07-07 | Page 9 | 8-Year-Old Minster Performs Marriage Ceremony

8 -Year-Old Minister Performs Marriage Ceremony 1 4 x x , - 1 XX X L . X I X 1 t ?xf -V s x4X 1 I x . i 1 x A 1 l x " x " I x it ; f J N I v - x i Vs K , x ' v . 1 7 "iff I i s. 4 ' x Sul m Aa..oufafcv.. ...vXxsvX i I y Charles E. Jaynes N Is World's Youngest Ordained Clergyman The world's youngest ordained minister, an eight-year-old Cleveland Cleve-land boy, Reverend Charles E. Jaynes Jr., performed his first marriage mar-riage ceremony at the wedding of Miss Florence Brinkman, twenty-one, twenty-one, and Clifton Hoffman, twenty-three. twenty-three. The young clergyman is pastor pas-tor of the Foursquare Gospel church and was ordained last July at the International Ministerial Federation conference at Peoria, 111. His parents par-ents have been active in the work of the church for a number of years.