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Greg Cunningham
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Date Posted: 14:23:46 08/23/01 Thu
Dear Scott,
Feel free to place the story on your website and place my e-mail address for anyone wishing to contact me with questions or if they have information to share. Our family unfortunately does not have a picture of John Cunningham. We have a picture of Michael Cunningham, but he never became involved like his parents. After the death of John Cunningham, we have no records of any family members continuing with the RLDS. We have not confirmed the location of John Cunningham's burial, but he died in Blanchardville and we believe he was probaly buried in a local LDS burial cemetery. Ask the visitors to your site if they might be able to find out where in Blanchardville he might be buried.
We have traced by father's genealogy (see my family tree) up to John Cunningham in Huntingdon County, PA, but we have not been able to confirm any further. Please forward any information if you locate information on John and Susan (Deam) Cunningham's parents.
Thanks.
Greg Cunningham, 5347 Harbor Court Drive, Alexandria, VA 22315.
From: "Scott Norwood"
To: "Gregory Cunningham"
Subject: Re: Cunninghams and Deams
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:00:08 -0500
Dear Greg,
Thank-you for sending your articles on John Cunningham and his son. I found it very interesting. Would their be any possibility of my placing it on my website as part of the page on John Cunningham? Does a photograph of him exist?
Again thank-you for responding to my previous inquiry. Unlike the LDS (Salt Lake City) the RLDS do not have a mechanism in place for restoring membership for the deceased, but I would like to document his participation, leadership, and courage that led to the formation of the RLDS church on my website.
sincerely, Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory Cunningham
To: norwood@libserv.cmsu.edu
Cc: bobhrd@fair.net
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Cunninghams and Deams
Dear Mr. Norwood,
I believe you will find the attached story I wrote concerning John Cunningham and his family very interesting. I have quite a bit of source material and the Web provides alot of information on the Reorganized Latter Day Saints. Write back if interested. Greg.
From: "Scott Norwood"
To:
Subject: Cunninghams and Deams
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:27:20 -0500
I found the entry below on Richland County, Wisconsin Inquiries page
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wirichla/richlanq.htm
Tue Jun 12 17:51:45 2001
My great-great-great grandparents were John and Susan
DEAM) CUNNINGHAM. They were from Huntingdon County, PA and settled in Grant County, WI from 1846-1852 (Potosi and Wingville) and then to Lafayette County (Blanchardville) from 1853-1861.. John CUNNINGHAM died on April 28, 1861, but his wife Susan continued to live there until March 1867 when she moved to Richland County to live with her son Michael Hayes Brannigan CUNNINGHAM. Michael CUNNINGHAM opened a store in Rockbridge and later a mill in 1883. At his death he had 610 arces in and around Rockbridge. Let me know if you are related to this CUNNINGHAM family.
I am researching biographical information about the people influential in the history of the RLDS page. I believe that your great-great-great grandfather was one of the early apostles of the Latter-Day saints that did not follow Brigham Young to Utah. Blanchardville was an area where a number of the 1850s leadership came from.
I would be interested in any information that you could provide. What little bit I have is at
www.geocities.com/scott_norwood/CunninghamJ.html
Do you have any information other than the above concerning him or of the Deams? Susan Deam's brother was also one of the early leaders of what became the RLDS church (now called the Community of Christ). Did any of their descendants join the Mormon church or any of its splinter groups?
Sincerely, Scott
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