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Rev Ephraim Peabody Jr.

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Rev Ephraim Peabody Jr.

Birth
Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
Death
28 Nov 1856 (aged 49)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Woodbine Path Lot 467
Memorial ID
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s/o Ephraim Peabody [Sr.] / Rhoda Abbot

Rev. Ephraim Peabody D. D. [Jr.]

He was tutored by the Rev. Thomas Beede who had guided a number of young men into the Unitarian ministry. After graduation from the Divinity School in 1830, Peabody first went to Meadville, PA where he preached and tutored the family of Harm Jan Huidekoper. In 1832 Peabody accepted a call to the First Congregational Church of Cincinnati. Here began his long association with Rev. James Freeman Clarke, then minister in Louisville, with whom he worked in editing a new Unitarian periodical, the Western Messenger.
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Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1827. Settled as a Minster in Cincinnati, OH in 1831. Pastor of the First Congregational Society [Unitarian] of New Bedford in 1838, and of King's Chapel in Boston 1846. D.D. at Bowdoin 1848. "A man of sound judgment and self-sacrificing benevolence, combining with great practical wisdom the upmost simplicity and purity of character."

m 5 Aug 1833 Salem, Essex Co, MA Mary Jane Derby d/o John Derby / Eleanor Coffin

They had 8 children - Samuel A., Ellen Derby, Anna Huidekoper, George Derby, Emily Morrison, Robert Swain, Francis Greenwood, Sarah L. d/y

ref: The Peabody Genealogy by Selim Hobart Peabody 1909 - The only son of Ephriam & Rhoda, Ephriam [Sr.] was a blacksmith; *Note death date/burial date re-interred from another cemetery
s/o Ephraim Peabody [Sr.] / Rhoda Abbot

Rev. Ephraim Peabody D. D. [Jr.]

He was tutored by the Rev. Thomas Beede who had guided a number of young men into the Unitarian ministry. After graduation from the Divinity School in 1830, Peabody first went to Meadville, PA where he preached and tutored the family of Harm Jan Huidekoper. In 1832 Peabody accepted a call to the First Congregational Church of Cincinnati. Here began his long association with Rev. James Freeman Clarke, then minister in Louisville, with whom he worked in editing a new Unitarian periodical, the Western Messenger.
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Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1827. Settled as a Minster in Cincinnati, OH in 1831. Pastor of the First Congregational Society [Unitarian] of New Bedford in 1838, and of King's Chapel in Boston 1846. D.D. at Bowdoin 1848. "A man of sound judgment and self-sacrificing benevolence, combining with great practical wisdom the upmost simplicity and purity of character."

m 5 Aug 1833 Salem, Essex Co, MA Mary Jane Derby d/o John Derby / Eleanor Coffin

They had 8 children - Samuel A., Ellen Derby, Anna Huidekoper, George Derby, Emily Morrison, Robert Swain, Francis Greenwood, Sarah L. d/y

ref: The Peabody Genealogy by Selim Hobart Peabody 1909 - The only son of Ephriam & Rhoda, Ephriam [Sr.] was a blacksmith; *Note death date/burial date re-interred from another cemetery

Inscription

Blessed are the Dead in the Lord

Rev. Ephraim Peabody, D.D.
Minister Of Kings Chapel Boston.
Born At Wilton, N.H.
March 22, 1807,
Died In Boston,
Nov. 28, 1856
Æ. 49.

Gravesite Details

burial 23 May 1857



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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133743513/ephraim-peabody: accessed ), memorial page for Rev Ephraim Peabody Jr. (22 Mar 1807–28 Nov 1856), Find a Grave Memorial ID 133743513, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by BluMoKitty (contributor 46830270).