Person:Cyrus Kingsbury (4)

  • F.  Cyrus Kingsbury (add)
  • M.  Annis Taynter (add)
  1. Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury1786 - 1870
  • HRev. Cyrus Kingsbury1786 - 1870
  • WSarah Varnum - 1822
Facts and Events
Name Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury
Gender Male
Birth[3] 22 Nov 1786 Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
Marriage to Sarah Varnum
Marriage to Electra May _____
Death[3] 27 Jun 1870 Oktibbeha, Mississippi, United StatesMemorial Stone, Mayhew Mission Cemetery
Burial[2] 28 Jun 1870 Boggy Depot Cemetery, Atoka, Atoka, Oklahoma, United States
References
  1.   KINGSBURY, CYRUS (1786-1870), in Webpage: Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
  2. Rev Cyrus Kingsbury, in Find A Grave.

    83 yrs 7 months 4 days at time of death.
    Inscription on the stone says "Live for Christ" was his Living and Dying theme.
    The D.D. at the end of his name means:
    Doctor of Divinity (D.D., Divinitatis Doctor in Latin) is an academic degree in divinity. Historically, it identified one who had been licensed by a university to teach Christian theology or related religious subjects.
    C. Kingsbury was a Minister of Gospel.

    He had been lame on his feet from a youth, and the name by which the Indians knew him was "Limping Wolf".

  3. 3.0 3.1 INSTRUCTORS, in Biographical Catalogue of the Trustees, Teachers and Students of Phillips Academy Andover 1778-1830. (Andover, Massachusetts: The Andover Press, 1903)
    17.

    1813 Cyrus Kingsbury Teacher of Penmanship 1814
    Son of Col. Cyrus Kingsbury and Annis Taynter;
    born, Alstead, N.H., Nov. 22, 1786;
    Brown University, 1812;
    Andover Seminary, 1815;
    missionary among Cherokees (at Missionary Ridge) and Choctaws fifty-three years;
    died in the Indian Territory, June 27, 1870.

  4.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Everett Family and the Choctaw Trading Post, the (Factory).