George C. Cunningham was the brother of O. H. Perry Cunningham and Robert F. Cunningham all of Hamburg, Edgefield District, South Carolina.
On February 14, 1856, Dr. George C. Cunningham married Caroline Martha Gray at the residence of John Lyon in Edgefield, Edgefield District South Carolina by the Reverend E.L. Watley.
George C. and Caroline were both from Hamburg, Edgefield District, South Carolina. They had a son named George W. Cunningham.
When Dr. G.C. Cunningham passed away in 1859, Caroline and her son George W. eventually moved to Greenville, SC to live with her brother, James Walter Gray and his family. (Her brother, J.W. Gray was a lawyer and proprietor of a boarding house in Greenville.)
George W. Cunningham became a cotton buyer in Greenville.
Tribute of Respect.
At a recent communication of Harmony Lodge, No. 67, A.F. M. the following Preamble and Resolutions were adopted.
Again has unpitying death, with its remorseless scythe, entered our sanctuary and claimed for its victim the head of our Lodge, taking from our midst a good man and a true Mason, upon whose brow age had not yet stamped his furrowed seal. Could the hand of brotherly regard and friendship have rescued him from the unrelenting tyrant, GEORGE C. CUNNINGHAM would not now be absent from his place in the East. Upright in his deportment, and devoted to his Masonic duties, he set a bright example while living for us to follow. Now the angel of death, by the inscrutable dispensation of Almighty God has taken him to the Grand Lodge on high. Patient and resigned, under a consciousness of his approaching end, while he was cheered and sustained to the last moment by the promises of Him that died for all, he bore with manly fortitude the pangs of dissolution.
Ist Resolved, That as a man and a mason our departed brother CUNNINGHAM held a high place in our affections as well as in our Lodge, being at the time of his death our Worshipful Master.
2nd Resolved, That as this is the first time our Lodge has been called on to mourn the death of their first officer, that a blank leaf be left by the Secretary in his book of records, whereupon the name of GEORGE C. CUNNINGHAM shall be inscribed, with the date of this death and his official relation to the Lodge; that the members wear the usual badge of mourning, and the jewels be draped in the same badge for three months.
3rd Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathies of this Lodge be tendered to the bereaved widow and the relations of our deceased brother.
4th Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be furnished to the widow, and that they be published in the Edgefield Advertiser, and entered on the minutes of the Lodge.
HENRY SOLOMON, Sec'ry.
Harmony Lodge, No. 67
BENJAMIN BAIRD,}
HENRY SOLOMON,} Committee.
ALEXANDER SIMON,}
Hamburg, June 7th 1859
June 15, 1859
p. 2, col. 5, Wed,
Edgefield Advertiser
Vol. XXIV No. 23
On February 14, 1856, Dr. George C. Cunningham married Caroline Martha Gray at the residence of John Lyon in Edgefield, Edgefield District South Carolina by the Reverend E.L. Watley.
George C. and Caroline were both from Hamburg, Edgefield District, South Carolina. They had a son named George W. Cunningham.
When Dr. G.C. Cunningham passed away in 1859, Caroline and her son George W. eventually moved to Greenville, SC to live with her brother, James Walter Gray and his family. (Her brother, J.W. Gray was a lawyer and proprietor of a boarding house in Greenville.)
George W. Cunningham became a cotton buyer in Greenville.
Tribute of Respect.
At a recent communication of Harmony Lodge, No. 67, A.F. M. the following Preamble and Resolutions were adopted.
Again has unpitying death, with its remorseless scythe, entered our sanctuary and claimed for its victim the head of our Lodge, taking from our midst a good man and a true Mason, upon whose brow age had not yet stamped his furrowed seal. Could the hand of brotherly regard and friendship have rescued him from the unrelenting tyrant, GEORGE C. CUNNINGHAM would not now be absent from his place in the East. Upright in his deportment, and devoted to his Masonic duties, he set a bright example while living for us to follow. Now the angel of death, by the inscrutable dispensation of Almighty God has taken him to the Grand Lodge on high. Patient and resigned, under a consciousness of his approaching end, while he was cheered and sustained to the last moment by the promises of Him that died for all, he bore with manly fortitude the pangs of dissolution.
Ist Resolved, That as a man and a mason our departed brother CUNNINGHAM held a high place in our affections as well as in our Lodge, being at the time of his death our Worshipful Master.
2nd Resolved, That as this is the first time our Lodge has been called on to mourn the death of their first officer, that a blank leaf be left by the Secretary in his book of records, whereupon the name of GEORGE C. CUNNINGHAM shall be inscribed, with the date of this death and his official relation to the Lodge; that the members wear the usual badge of mourning, and the jewels be draped in the same badge for three months.
3rd Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathies of this Lodge be tendered to the bereaved widow and the relations of our deceased brother.
4th Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be furnished to the widow, and that they be published in the Edgefield Advertiser, and entered on the minutes of the Lodge.
HENRY SOLOMON, Sec'ry.
Harmony Lodge, No. 67
BENJAMIN BAIRD,}
HENRY SOLOMON,} Committee.
ALEXANDER SIMON,}
Hamburg, June 7th 1859
June 15, 1859
p. 2, col. 5, Wed,
Edgefield Advertiser
Vol. XXIV No. 23
George C. Cunningham was the brother of O. H. Perry Cunningham and Robert F. Cunningham all of Hamburg, Edgefield District, South Carolina.
On February 14, 1856, Dr. George C. Cunningham married Caroline Martha Gray at the residence of John Lyon in Edgefield, Edgefield District South Carolina by the Reverend E.L. Watley.
George C. and Caroline were both from Hamburg, Edgefield District, South Carolina. They had a son named George W. Cunningham.
When Dr. G.C. Cunningham passed away in 1859, Caroline and her son George W. eventually moved to Greenville, SC to live with her brother, James Walter Gray and his family. (Her brother, J.W. Gray was a lawyer and proprietor of a boarding house in Greenville.)
George W. Cunningham became a cotton buyer in Greenville.
Tribute of Respect.
At a recent communication of Harmony Lodge, No. 67, A.F. M. the following Preamble and Resolutions were adopted.
Again has unpitying death, with its remorseless scythe, entered our sanctuary and claimed for its victim the head of our Lodge, taking from our midst a good man and a true Mason, upon whose brow age had not yet stamped his furrowed seal. Could the hand of brotherly regard and friendship have rescued him from the unrelenting tyrant, GEORGE C. CUNNINGHAM would not now be absent from his place in the East. Upright in his deportment, and devoted to his Masonic duties, he set a bright example while living for us to follow. Now the angel of death, by the inscrutable dispensation of Almighty God has taken him to the Grand Lodge on high. Patient and resigned, under a consciousness of his approaching end, while he was cheered and sustained to the last moment by the promises of Him that died for all, he bore with manly fortitude the pangs of dissolution.
Ist Resolved, That as a man and a mason our departed brother CUNNINGHAM held a high place in our affections as well as in our Lodge, being at the time of his death our Worshipful Master.
2nd Resolved, That as this is the first time our Lodge has been called on to mourn the death of their first officer, that a blank leaf be left by the Secretary in his book of records, whereupon the name of GEORGE C. CUNNINGHAM shall be inscribed, with the date of this death and his official relation to the Lodge; that the members wear the usual badge of mourning, and the jewels be draped in the same badge for three months.
3rd Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathies of this Lodge be tendered to the bereaved widow and the relations of our deceased brother.
4th Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be furnished to the widow, and that they be published in the Edgefield Advertiser, and entered on the minutes of the Lodge.
HENRY SOLOMON, Sec'ry.
Harmony Lodge, No. 67
BENJAMIN BAIRD,}
HENRY SOLOMON,} Committee.
ALEXANDER SIMON,}
Hamburg, June 7th 1859
June 15, 1859
p. 2, col. 5, Wed,
Edgefield Advertiser
Vol. XXIV No. 23
On February 14, 1856, Dr. George C. Cunningham married Caroline Martha Gray at the residence of John Lyon in Edgefield, Edgefield District South Carolina by the Reverend E.L. Watley.
George C. and Caroline were both from Hamburg, Edgefield District, South Carolina. They had a son named George W. Cunningham.
When Dr. G.C. Cunningham passed away in 1859, Caroline and her son George W. eventually moved to Greenville, SC to live with her brother, James Walter Gray and his family. (Her brother, J.W. Gray was a lawyer and proprietor of a boarding house in Greenville.)
George W. Cunningham became a cotton buyer in Greenville.
Tribute of Respect.
At a recent communication of Harmony Lodge, No. 67, A.F. M. the following Preamble and Resolutions were adopted.
Again has unpitying death, with its remorseless scythe, entered our sanctuary and claimed for its victim the head of our Lodge, taking from our midst a good man and a true Mason, upon whose brow age had not yet stamped his furrowed seal. Could the hand of brotherly regard and friendship have rescued him from the unrelenting tyrant, GEORGE C. CUNNINGHAM would not now be absent from his place in the East. Upright in his deportment, and devoted to his Masonic duties, he set a bright example while living for us to follow. Now the angel of death, by the inscrutable dispensation of Almighty God has taken him to the Grand Lodge on high. Patient and resigned, under a consciousness of his approaching end, while he was cheered and sustained to the last moment by the promises of Him that died for all, he bore with manly fortitude the pangs of dissolution.
Ist Resolved, That as a man and a mason our departed brother CUNNINGHAM held a high place in our affections as well as in our Lodge, being at the time of his death our Worshipful Master.
2nd Resolved, That as this is the first time our Lodge has been called on to mourn the death of their first officer, that a blank leaf be left by the Secretary in his book of records, whereupon the name of GEORGE C. CUNNINGHAM shall be inscribed, with the date of this death and his official relation to the Lodge; that the members wear the usual badge of mourning, and the jewels be draped in the same badge for three months.
3rd Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathies of this Lodge be tendered to the bereaved widow and the relations of our deceased brother.
4th Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be furnished to the widow, and that they be published in the Edgefield Advertiser, and entered on the minutes of the Lodge.
HENRY SOLOMON, Sec'ry.
Harmony Lodge, No. 67
BENJAMIN BAIRD,}
HENRY SOLOMON,} Committee.
ALEXANDER SIMON,}
Hamburg, June 7th 1859
June 15, 1859
p. 2, col. 5, Wed,
Edgefield Advertiser
Vol. XXIV No. 23
Inscription
In Memory of
Dr. George C. Cunningham
who died
May 30th 1859
In the 39th year of his age
Masonic emblem on tombstone
Gravesite Details
marble slab in 3 pieces; box tomb not there; grave has sunk in; bad condition
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