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     Elizabeth Richardson was born on 20 May 1763 at Attleboro, Bristol County, MA, USA. She married Obadiah Thatcher at MA, USA, on 6 February 1783. Elizabeth Richardson died on 24 November 1825 at Harford, Susquehanna County, PA, USA, at age 62. Lillian DuLaney gives a death date of 24 Apr 1825 in Harford, PA.. She was buried at Hartford Cemetery, at Hartford, Susquehanna County, PA, USA.

     Moses Thatcher was born on 14 November 1795 at Princeton, Worcester County, MA, USA. He was the son of Obadiah Thatcher and Elizabeth Richardson. Moses Thatcher died on 21 January 1878 at Cambridge, Henry County, IL, USA, at age 82. He was buried at Munson Township Cemetery, at Cambridge, Henry County, IL, USA.

     Moses was a graduate of Brown University and a Presbyterian Minister. He edited a religious and anti-masonic paper and was a author and State Senator of MA.

     Hannah Thatcher was born on 31 July 1799 at Princeton, Worcester County, MA, USA. She was the daughter of Obadiah Thatcher and Elizabeth Richardson. Hannah Thatcher died on 8 August 1861 at Middletown, Middlesex County, CT, USA, at age 62. She was buried at Mortimer Cemetery, at Middletown, Middlesex County, CT, USA. Wife of William Wells Pride..

     Hannah married William Wells Pride and was with her sister Philene in Mississippi.

     Tyler Thatcher was born on 11 September 1801 at MA, USA. He was the son of Obadiah Thatcher and Elizabeth Richardson. Tyler Thatcher died on 4 December 1869 at Cache Creek, Yolo County, CA, USA, at age 68.
he was married to Fidelia Thompson, then to Nancy W. Newton. His parents were Elizabeth (Richardson) & Obadiah Thacher. He had 7 siblings: Elizabeth, Peter, Stephen Richardson, Thomas, Moses, Hannah & Philencia. He had 2 children with Fidelia: Lucias T. and Otis Obediah.. He was buried at Cottonwood Cemetery, at Winters, Yolo County, CA, USA.

     The foregoing referencing the "Discussion" between Dr. Charles Knowlton (1800-1850) of Ashfield, Mass., writer of the obituary, and the Rev. Tyler Thatcher, of Hawley, and Origen Bachelor sheds additional light on the following often recounted interchange between Hezekiah Warriner and Rev. Thatcher, which interchange finds its most recent publication in the History of Hawley, Mass., compiled by Louise Hale Johnson, pub. 1953, pgs 12-13: Rev. Tyler Thatcher, born in Princeton, Mass., in 1801, graduated Brown University, 1824, was installed in East Hawley in 1834 as a colleague of Rev. Jonathan Grout in the First Congregational Church. Rev. Grout died the following year and Rev. Thatcher continued as the settled pastor until January 31, 1843 [coincidently the same month in which the death of Hezekiah Warriner occurred]. By 1850 Rev. Thatcher left the East coast for California where he preached the reminder of his life. He died there December 4, 1869. He [Rev. Thatcher] had a strong, logical mind, and was a great reasoner. Among his hearers was Hezekiah Warriner, who was somewhat skeptical, and many were the discussions they had on points wherein they differed, and many were the sermons with special reference to Mr. Warriner, Still Mr. Warriner paid liberally for the minister, at which some expressed surprise, "But" he said, "it was no more than fair, for he had more than his share of the preaching!".
He Sailed from Boston Nov 1850, arrived by Cape Horn at San Francisco Sep 1851. Detained 1 mos on the way at Rio de Janeiro, located at Marysville and preached at different points. Installed 6 Dec 1866 Pastor of the Cong'l Church at Cache Creek.

     Deman Charles Delzell was born circa 1874. He married Fannie (Fay) Hotchkin circa 1900.¹ Deman Charles Delzell died before 1910 at Durant, Bryan County, OK, USA. Mary Semple Hotchkin and son Ebenezer say that Dalzell died the same year that they were married..

     Alfred L. Moore was born on 12 April 1848 at KY, USA. He married Elizabeth Jane Litton at Davis County, MO, USA, on 20 October 1872. Alfred L. Moore died on 7 February 1909 at Globe, Gila County, AZ, USA, at age 60. He was buried at Globe Cemetery, at Globe, Gila County, AZ, USA.

     The Moore family were farmers and originally from Missouri.

     Elizabeth Jane Litton was born on 26 November 1852 at Livingston, Livingston County, MO, USA. She married Alfred L. Moore at Davis County, MO, USA, on 20 October 1872.

     Patrick Henry Littlepage was born on 8 June 1854 at Choctaw County, AL, USA. He married Emma G. Dunn circa 1879 at Indian Territory, USA. He married Lucy Elizabeth Kingsbury at Indian Territory in 1888. 1930 census says that she was married at age 28. The 1900 census says married 12 years.. Patrick Henry Littlepage appeared on the census of 1900 at Twp 1, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, USA. The census lists the family as: Patrick H. Littlepage, jun 1854, 45, married 12 years, born AL, father born KY, mother born AL; wife Lucy, Nov 1861, 38, married 12 years, no children, born Indian Territory, parents born MS; Cyrus Kingsbury, brother-in-law, may 1859, 41, widowed.. He died in 1917 at Grady County, OK, USA.¹ He was buried at Evergreen Cemetery, at Minco, Grady County, OK, USA.

     History of Indian Territory by D.C. Gideon 1901 - Page 955 & 956
"Among the residents of the Choctaw nation who are numbered among the native sons of Alabama is Patrick H. Littlepage, who was born in 1854, in Choctaw county in that state, his parents being Robert and Mary (Graham) Littlepage. Reared in the state of his nativity, Mr. Littlepage enjoyed excellent privileges in his youth. He spent his boyhood amid the refining influences of a good home and received mental training in the public schools and attended Cumberland University, of Lebanon, Tennessee. The father left the family in very comfortable circumstances and after putting aside his text-books, Mr. Littlepage turned his attention to farming and the raising of cattle, which lines of endeavor proved to him a profitable source of income. They have been his life work and he is now the owner of a valuable tract of land in the Choctaw nation, whither he came in 1879. He is thoroughly conversant with the business of cattle-raising, keeps a large herd, and, as he has only good grades of stock, he finds no trouble in disposing of them in the market.Mr. Littlepage has been twice married. He first wedded Emma Dunn, who was a member of a Choctaw family, and died in 1885. The only living child of this marriage is now Mrs. Mary (Littlepage) Owens. There was also one son, Patrick, who died in his sixth year. After the death of his first wife Mr. Littlepage was again married, his second union being with Lucy E. Kingsbury, a white woman, who was born and reared in the Indian Territory, her birthplace being Doaksville. She was a daughter of Rev. John P. and Hannah M. (Hotchkin) Kingsbury, who were natives of Mississippi, but died in the Indian Territory. Her father was a prominent missionary and one of the noted influential men of the Choctaw Nation. He was a loyal friend and wise counselor of the Indians, whom he often defended against the wily schemes of unscrupulous white men. He was therefore greatly beloved by the Indians.Pat Littlepage was a rancher.

     Cyrus Kingsbury Rev. was born on 23 November 1786 at NH, USA. 1860 census gives 1785. Calculations with tombstone information died at 83 years, 7 months, and 4 days gives a birth date of 23 Nov 1786. He married Sarah Bowdoin Varnum on 2 February 1819 at New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA, USA. Rhode Island Vital Extracts 1636 to 1899.. He married Electa May Child at Mayhew, Lowndes County, MS, USA, in 1824. Cyrus Kingsbury Rev. married Priscilla Grifffin Child on 20 October 1867 at Boggy Depot, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, USA. Cyrus Kingsbury Rev. died on 27 June 1870 at Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, USA, at age 83.

     KINGSBURY, CYRUS (1786-1870)

Born in Alstead, New Hampshire, on November 22, 1786, Cyrus Kingsbury is remembered as "the Father of the Missions" in Indian Territory. Reared by an aunt and uncle in Worcester, Massachusetts, he earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1812 and studied at Andover Theological Seminary. Congregational ministers in Ipswich, Massachusetts, ordained him in 1815. His mission field: The Indians. He first served Cherokee in the Southeast, founding Brainerd Mission near Chickamauga, Tennessee, in 1817.

In 1818 his spiritual parentage shifted to the Choctaw of Mississippi. As tribal leaders embraced white culture, he preached and ran churches and schools first for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and then for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and Southern Presbyterian Church. Kingsbury founded Elliot Mission for the Choctaws in 1818 and married Sarah B. Varnum that Christmas Eve. He founded Mayhew Mission in 1820 and led expansion of the mission system in Mississippi. Sarah died in 1822, leaving two small sons, Cyrus, Jr., and John Parker; the latter's interests would include editing the Choctaw Intelligencer at Doaksville, in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, in 1850-52. The senior Kingsbury married Electa May in 1824. Accompanying the Choctaw on their removal west, he supervised the founding of Spencer Academy and Armstrong Academy in 1844 and other schools and churches in Indian Territory.

Kingsbury served during momentous events in nineteenth-century Choctaw history. He witnessed land-hungry Mississippians push for the tribe's removal at the 1820 Treaty of Doak's Stand. He persevered through the abolition movement, personally opposing slavery but seeing his mission to preach to all, slave and free, as the higher calling. His stance caught him between his northern religious patrons and slaveholding Choctaws. During the Civil War he suspended his work when virtually every other nonmilitary enterprise stopped in Indian Territory. After the war he resumed his activities. After six decades of service Kingsbury died on June 27, 1870, at age eighty-three, as the lone missionary in the Choctaw Nation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Arthur H. DeRosier, Jr., "Cyrus Kingsbury—Missionary to the Choctaws," The Journal of Presbyterian History 50 (Winter 1972). Robert Elliott Flickinger, The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, Valliant, McCurtain County Oklahoma (1914; reprint, Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2002). Clara Sue Kidwell, "The Language of Christian Conversion among the Choctaws," The Journal of Presbyterian History 77 (Fall 1999). W. B. Morrison, "Diary of Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 3 (June 1925). Arminta Scott Spalding, "Cyrus Kingsbury: Missionary to the Choctaws" (Ph.D. diss, University of Oklahoma, 1974).

     Electa May Child was born on 11 March 1784 at MA, USA. 1860 census. She married Cyrus Kingsbury Rev. at Mayhew, Lowndes County, MS, USA, in 1824. Electa May Child died on 30 April 1864 at Pine Ridge, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, USA, at age 80. She was buried at Boggy Depot Cemetery, at Atoka, Atoka County, OK, USA. Electra Kingsbury.

     Electa was at least the second wife of Cyrus and some say the third.

     Wendy Beth Bartholomew was born on 11 September 1960 at Windham, Windham County, CT, USA.¹ She married Gary Lee Hotchkin at West Hartford, Hartford County, CT, USA, on 11 August 1984.² Wendy Beth Bartholomew died on 3 September 2011 at Concord, Jackson County, MI, USA, at age 50. HOTCHKIN, WENDY - Of Concord, passed away suddenly at her home Saturday September 3, 2011. She was born to Benjamin and Glendora Bartholomew in Windham, Connecticut. Wendy was a graduate of Ellington High School and had held many jobs over the years, most recently working as a customer service rep for JCPenney. She is survived by her husband, Gary Hotchkin of Concord. According to her wishes, cremation has taken place and no services will be held at this time. Arrangements by J. Kevin Tidd Funeral Home, 811 Finley Drive, Albion, Michigan 49224. www.kevintiddfuneralhome.com www.Mlive.com/obits
Published in Jackson Citizen Patriot on Sept. 9, 2011.¹

     HOTCHKIN, WENDY - Of Concord, passed away suddenly at her home Saturday September 3, 2011. She was born to Benjamin and Glendora Bartholomew in Windham, Connecticut. Wendy was a graduate of Ellington High School and had held many jobs over the years, most recently working as a customer service rep for JCPenney. She is survived by her husband, Gary Hotchkin of Concord. According to her wishes, cremation has taken place and no services will be held at this time. Arrangements by J. Kevin Tidd Funeral Home, 811 Finley Drive, Albion, Michigan 49224. Published in Jackson Citizen Patriot on September 9, 2011.

     William Baptist Hammer was born on 6 August 1883 at OH, USA. . He married Grace Finton at OH in 1911. William Baptist Hammer appeared on the census of 1920 at Youngstown, Mahoning County, OH, USA. The census lists the family as: William B. Hammer, 36, born in OH, father born Scotland, mother in Ireland, living at the YMCA.. He died on 15 July 1938 at Cuyahoga County, OH, USA, at age 54. He was buried at Lake View Cemetery, at Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH, USA.

     Grace Finton was born on 28 May 1888 at Lyon, Oakland County, MI, USA.¹ She married William Baptist Hammer at OH, USA, in 1911. Grace Finton and William Baptist Bullard Hammer were divorced at Cuyahoga County, OH, USA. Grace Finton appeared on the census of 1920 at Canton, Wayne County, MI, USA. The census lists the family as: Isaac Tillotson, 47, born MI, father born CT, mother born MI; wife Connie, 52, born MI, father born NY, mother born MI; son Irving B., 21, born MI; son Frank, 17, born MI; dau Margaret J., 14, born MI; son Bert, 12, born MI; son Hary F., 7, born MI; niece Grace F. Hammer, 31, married or widowed ??, born MI, parents born MI; daughter Harriet E. Hammer, 1 5/12, born OH, father born OH, mother born MI.. She married Irving B. Tillotson, son of Isaac Corwin Tillotson and Rose Birch, in 1920 at Canton, Wayne County, MI. Grace Finton died in 1937 at Plymouth, Wayne County, MI, USA.² She was buried at Riverside Cemetery, at Plymouth, Wayne County, MI, USA.

     Sarah Sutliff was born on 23 April 1754 at Durham, Middlesex County, CT, USA.¹ She was the daughter of John Sutliff II and Lucy Hodgkin. Sarah Sutliff died in 1755.

     Gad Sutliff was born on 1 January 1756 at Durham, Middlesex County, CT, USA. Revolutionary Pension records give this date and location.¹ He was the son of John Sutliff II and Lucy Hodgkin. Gad Sutliff was a Private, andserved in Capt. Buckley, Col. Wolcott's Reg. of the CT Line, during the Revolutionary War. The file gives a sister Elizabeth Bernard, wife Katherine, and children, Olive, Sarah, Salmon, Aaron, Lucinda, Norman, Permelia, Clarissa, Jesse. No other family details are given. He married Catherine Squires in 1777 at CT, USA. Gad Sutliff died on 4 March 1842 at Bennington, Wyoming County, NY, USA, at age 86.

     John Hodgkin Sutliff was born on 16 October 1757 at CT, USA. He was the son of John Sutliff II and Lucy Hodgkin. John Hodgkin Sutliffserved during the Revolutionary War. He died circa 1832 at Ingham County, MI, USA.

     Naomi Sutliff was born on 9 December 1759 at Killingworth, Middlesex County, CT, USA. She was the daughter of John Sutliff II and Lucy Hodgkin. Naomi Sutliff died on 23 January 1857 at Governeur, St Lawrence County, NY, USA, at age 97.

     Janner (Jonah) Sutliff was born on 11 March 1762 at Killingworth, Middlesex County, CT, USA. Sutliff Bible Record according to Revolutionary War Pension application. Only the year 1762 was readable according to the Pension File. He was the son of John Sutliff II and Lucy Hodgkin. Janner (Jonah) Sutliffserved during the Revolutionary War. He died before pension was filed by family and record is not clear except children say that he served under Col Baldwin. He married Hapzibah Beulah Story on 12 October 1786 at Norwich Landing, New London County, CT, USA. Sutliff Bible Record according to Revolutionary War Pension application. Janner (Jonah) Sutliff died on 28 December 1826 at Sacketts Harbor, Jefferson County, NY, USA, at age 64. Sutliff Bible Record according to Revolutionary War Pension application.

     The Revolutionary War Pension records have a good copy of a family bible recording births for a number of this family. Revolutionary War records refer to him as either Janner or Jonah.

     Lucy Sutliff was born in July 1764 at Higganum, Middlesex County, CT, USA.¹ She was the daughter of John Sutliff II and Lucy Hodgkin. Lucy Sutliff died in 1765 at Higganum, Middlesex County, CT.

     Thomas Edward Sutliff was born in 1768 at Higganum, Middlesex County, CT, USA. He was the son of John Sutliff II and Lucy Hodgkin. Thomas Edward Sutliff died on 8 June 1851 at Johnstown, Fulton County, NY, USA.¹

     Elizabeth Sutliff was born circa 1770 at Higganum, Middlesex County, CT, USA.¹ She was the daughter of John Sutliff II and Lucy Hodgkin. She resided at Burns, Allegany County, NY, USA, circa 1830. Elizabeth Sutliff died in 1870 at NY, USA.