Frederic / Frederick AYER was an ordained Congregational Church minister, ordained by Rev. Chas. Finney in 1842-43.
Frederick [Frederic] AYER and Elizabeth [Elisabeth] TAYLOR were married 1833 in Mackinaw, Michigan Territory. Both had been teachers at Mackinaw Mission boarding school and he had spent two years in Ojibwe villages 1830-1832 before their marriage. They lived among the Ojibwe until 1848, then retired to a farm at Belle Prairie, Minn. Territory but also ran an independent school that Ojibwe and whites attended and conducted an unaffiliated mission at Belle Prairie. Frederic Ayer was a member of the "Chippewa Embassy" that defused the potential Ojibwe violence at Crow Wing in Sept 1862 during the Dakota Uprising. In 1865 Frederic and Elisabeth went back into mission work at Atlanta under the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau. He superintended the mission schools and orphanage, taught, preached, and did community outreach. She taught. He died there of his lifelong lung trouble and in the spring Elisabeth returned to Minnesota.
Rev. AYER is buried in Oakland cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. Grave site has not been identified. Please report to [email protected] and the cemetery if you locate this grave. It very much needs to be recognized.
Grave may be unmarked. There is one likely grave in typed listing that has "New Jersey" as birthplace and is essentially a code name like Mr. Nobody to camouflage from KKK haters. Let me know if you find this particular grave. It may be in 1860s smallpox victim group, or in grave group of black people.
Frederick [Frederic] AYER and Elizabeth [Elisabeth] TAYLOR were married 1833 in Mackinaw, Michigan Territory. Both had been teachers at Mackinaw Mission boarding school and he had spent two years in Ojibwe villages 1830-1832 before their marriage. They lived among the Ojibwe until 1848, then retired to a farm at Belle Prairie, Minn. Territory but also ran an independent school that Ojibwe and whites attended and conducted an unaffiliated mission at Belle Prairie. Frederic Ayer was a member of the "Chippewa Embassy" that defused the potential Ojibwe violence at Crow Wing in Sept 1862 during the Dakota Uprising. In 1865 Frederic and Elisabeth went back into mission work at Atlanta under the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau. He superintended the mission schools and orphanage, taught, preached, and did community outreach. She taught. He died there of his lifelong lung trouble and in the spring Elisabeth returned to Minnesota.
Rev. AYER is buried in Oakland cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. Grave site has not been identified. Please report to [email protected] and the cemetery if you locate this grave. It very much needs to be recognized.
Grave may be unmarked. There is one likely grave in typed listing that has "New Jersey" as birthplace and is essentially a code name like Mr. Nobody to camouflage from KKK haters. Let me know if you find this particular grave. It may be in 1860s smallpox victim group, or in grave group of black people.
Frederic / Frederick AYER was an ordained Congregational Church minister, ordained by Rev. Chas. Finney in 1842-43.
Frederick [Frederic] AYER and Elizabeth [Elisabeth] TAYLOR were married 1833 in Mackinaw, Michigan Territory. Both had been teachers at Mackinaw Mission boarding school and he had spent two years in Ojibwe villages 1830-1832 before their marriage. They lived among the Ojibwe until 1848, then retired to a farm at Belle Prairie, Minn. Territory but also ran an independent school that Ojibwe and whites attended and conducted an unaffiliated mission at Belle Prairie. Frederic Ayer was a member of the "Chippewa Embassy" that defused the potential Ojibwe violence at Crow Wing in Sept 1862 during the Dakota Uprising. In 1865 Frederic and Elisabeth went back into mission work at Atlanta under the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau. He superintended the mission schools and orphanage, taught, preached, and did community outreach. She taught. He died there of his lifelong lung trouble and in the spring Elisabeth returned to Minnesota.
Rev. AYER is buried in Oakland cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. Grave site has not been identified. Please report to [email protected] and the cemetery if you locate this grave. It very much needs to be recognized.
Grave may be unmarked. There is one likely grave in typed listing that has "New Jersey" as birthplace and is essentially a code name like Mr. Nobody to camouflage from KKK haters. Let me know if you find this particular grave. It may be in 1860s smallpox victim group, or in grave group of black people.
Frederick [Frederic] AYER and Elizabeth [Elisabeth] TAYLOR were married 1833 in Mackinaw, Michigan Territory. Both had been teachers at Mackinaw Mission boarding school and he had spent two years in Ojibwe villages 1830-1832 before their marriage. They lived among the Ojibwe until 1848, then retired to a farm at Belle Prairie, Minn. Territory but also ran an independent school that Ojibwe and whites attended and conducted an unaffiliated mission at Belle Prairie. Frederic Ayer was a member of the "Chippewa Embassy" that defused the potential Ojibwe violence at Crow Wing in Sept 1862 during the Dakota Uprising. In 1865 Frederic and Elisabeth went back into mission work at Atlanta under the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau. He superintended the mission schools and orphanage, taught, preached, and did community outreach. She taught. He died there of his lifelong lung trouble and in the spring Elisabeth returned to Minnesota.
Rev. AYER is buried in Oakland cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. Grave site has not been identified. Please report to [email protected] and the cemetery if you locate this grave. It very much needs to be recognized.
Grave may be unmarked. There is one likely grave in typed listing that has "New Jersey" as birthplace and is essentially a code name like Mr. Nobody to camouflage from KKK haters. Let me know if you find this particular grave. It may be in 1860s smallpox victim group, or in grave group of black people.
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