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| Enoch CYRUS, Sr.
Rebecca COOK |
| Husband: Enoch CYRUS, Sr.
Birth: 18 Feb 1795/6, TN Death (smallpox): 3 Feb 1853, Calistoga, Napa Co., CA Father: Nimrod CYRUS Mother: Frances __?__ |
| Marriage: 31 Aug 1816, Grainger Co., TN
Transhumance: 1846, to Yountville, Napa Co., CA, by wagon train Transhumance: 1850, to Calistoga, Napa Co., CA |
| Wife: Rebecca COOK
Birth: 1795/6, NC Death: 1873, near Calistoga, Napa Co., CA |
| Children: |
| 1. Mary CYRUS; m. 10 Oct 1858, William H. NASH
2. Anna CYRUS 3. Frances CYRUS 4. William CYRUS 5. James CYRUS 6. Nancy CYRUS 7. Enoch CYRUS, Jr. 8. Pleasant CYRUS, b. 1828/9, IL 9. John CYRUS, b. 20 Mar 1831, Hancock Co., IL 10. Rachel CYRUS, b. 1832/3, IL 11. Jesse CYRUS, b. 1836/7, MO |
| Sources:
1. 1850 Census. Napa Valley, Napa Co., CA, p. 133A, 109/109, enumerated 15 Oct 1850 (online in the USGenWeb Archives):
2. J.M. Guinn. 1904. History of the State of California and Biographical Record of Coast Counties, California. Chapman Publ. Co., Chicago. Biographical sketch of William LaFayette McCray, son-in-law of Rachel Cyrus. 3. Hubert Howe Bancroft. 1884-1890. California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542-1848. History Co., San Francisco, CA (online at Ancestry.com). On p. 113:
4. Descendants of John Sires by John A. Mahey. [link died] 5. At the Donner Party web site, see entry for Lovina Graves. [link died] The Cyrus family was in a wagon train just days ahead of the ill-fated Donner Party. The Cyruses made it safely over the summit. Tradition holds that the Cyrus's eldest son, Pleasant, rode back to the Donner wagon train to urge them to hurry on. 6. Broderbund. World Family Trees. Vol. 2, Pedigree #5730. Citing Patricia Boland Cartwright, 18 Dec 1961:
7. Broderbund. World Family Trees. Vol. 14, Pedigree #179. 8. For more on the Nashes, see Descendants of John Nash by George E. Nash. [link died] He gives members of wagon train:
9. Messages in the Cyrus Family Genealogy Forum (online at GenForum.com). |
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