Methodist Minister per 1850 census.
When Augustus was seven years old, his parents left Adams, a town in western Massachusetts, and settled in the then unbroken wilds of Genesee County, NY, where his father built a log cabin in a clearing at the place where the town of Victor is now situated. Here Augustus grew up with all the courage and strength of those whose daily task is the subjugation of nature. He was tall, muscular, active, and genial. He had inherited from his Quaker grandfather a delicate and sensitive religious nature, which heard the words of the guiding voice of the Spirit. In 1817 he heard his first sermon at Canandaigua, NY. Although his people were Quakers, he soon became impressed with Methodism and embraced its views. He became a clergyman and was sent to Ohio where as a member of the Ohio Conference he was settled near Batavia, about twenty miles from Cincinnati. Later he was in Cincinnati for about a year and then was transferred to the Indiana Conference. He settled in Rush County where he purchased a farm. Leaving his wife, her two brothers and his two sons to carry on the work of the farm, he devoted himself wholly to his ministerial work. He was pastor of the Church in Indianapolis and presiding elder of the Indianapolis and Whitewater Districts and preacher at the Wesley Chapel in Madison and also elder of the Madison District and pastor of the Lawrenceburgh station. In 1840 he was sent as a delegate to the General Conference which met in New York. This afforded him the first opportunity to see his mother and others of his father's family since he left New York State over twenty-five years before. Augustus Eddy carried on his work for over fifty years. He was a man of unusually fine personal appearance, and with a most benevolent face, "a man without reproach, of noble character, single purpose and great piety." The children of Augustus and Martha (Thomas) Eddy are: (order of birth not known)
1. Zara Eddy
2. Mary Eliza Eddy
3. Alice Eddy
4. Elizabeth Jane Eddy
5. John Reynolds Eddy
6. Morris Riley Eddy
7. Thomas Mears Eddy
When Augustus was seven years old, his parents left Adams, a town in western Massachusetts, and settled in the then unbroken wilds of Genesee County, NY, where his father built a log cabin in a clearing at the place where the town of Victor is now situated. Here Augustus grew up with all the courage and strength of those whose daily task is the subjugation of nature. He was tall, muscular, active, and genial. He had inherited from his Quaker grandfather a delicate and sensitive religious nature, which heard the words of the guiding voice of the Spirit. In 1817 he heard his first sermon at Canandaigua, NY. Although his people were Quakers, he soon became impressed with Methodism and embraced its views. He became a clergyman and was sent to Ohio where as a member of the Ohio Conference he was settled near Batavia, about twenty miles from Cincinnati. Later he was in Cincinnati for about a year and then was transferred to the Indiana Conference. He settled in Rush County where he purchased a farm. Leaving his wife, her two brothers and his two sons to carry on the work of the farm, he devoted himself wholly to his ministerial work. He was pastor of the Church in Indianapolis and presiding elder of the Indianapolis and Whitewater Districts and preacher at the Wesley Chapel in Madison and also elder of the Madison District and pastor of the Lawrenceburgh station. In 1840 he was sent as a delegate to the General Conference which met in New York. This afforded him the first opportunity to see his mother and others of his father's family since he left New York State over twenty-five years before. Augustus Eddy carried on his work for over fifty years. He was a man of unusually fine personal appearance, and with a most benevolent face, "a man without reproach, of noble character, single purpose and great piety." The children of Augustus and Martha (Thomas) Eddy are: (order of birth not known)
1. Zara Eddy
2. Mary Eliza Eddy
3. Alice Eddy
4. Elizabeth Jane Eddy
5. John Reynolds Eddy
6. Morris Riley Eddy
7. Thomas Mears Eddy
Methodist Minister per 1850 census.
When Augustus was seven years old, his parents left Adams, a town in western Massachusetts, and settled in the then unbroken wilds of Genesee County, NY, where his father built a log cabin in a clearing at the place where the town of Victor is now situated. Here Augustus grew up with all the courage and strength of those whose daily task is the subjugation of nature. He was tall, muscular, active, and genial. He had inherited from his Quaker grandfather a delicate and sensitive religious nature, which heard the words of the guiding voice of the Spirit. In 1817 he heard his first sermon at Canandaigua, NY. Although his people were Quakers, he soon became impressed with Methodism and embraced its views. He became a clergyman and was sent to Ohio where as a member of the Ohio Conference he was settled near Batavia, about twenty miles from Cincinnati. Later he was in Cincinnati for about a year and then was transferred to the Indiana Conference. He settled in Rush County where he purchased a farm. Leaving his wife, her two brothers and his two sons to carry on the work of the farm, he devoted himself wholly to his ministerial work. He was pastor of the Church in Indianapolis and presiding elder of the Indianapolis and Whitewater Districts and preacher at the Wesley Chapel in Madison and also elder of the Madison District and pastor of the Lawrenceburgh station. In 1840 he was sent as a delegate to the General Conference which met in New York. This afforded him the first opportunity to see his mother and others of his father's family since he left New York State over twenty-five years before. Augustus Eddy carried on his work for over fifty years. He was a man of unusually fine personal appearance, and with a most benevolent face, "a man without reproach, of noble character, single purpose and great piety." The children of Augustus and Martha (Thomas) Eddy are: (order of birth not known)
1. Zara Eddy
2. Mary Eliza Eddy
3. Alice Eddy
4. Elizabeth Jane Eddy
5. John Reynolds Eddy
6. Morris Riley Eddy
7. Thomas Mears Eddy
When Augustus was seven years old, his parents left Adams, a town in western Massachusetts, and settled in the then unbroken wilds of Genesee County, NY, where his father built a log cabin in a clearing at the place where the town of Victor is now situated. Here Augustus grew up with all the courage and strength of those whose daily task is the subjugation of nature. He was tall, muscular, active, and genial. He had inherited from his Quaker grandfather a delicate and sensitive religious nature, which heard the words of the guiding voice of the Spirit. In 1817 he heard his first sermon at Canandaigua, NY. Although his people were Quakers, he soon became impressed with Methodism and embraced its views. He became a clergyman and was sent to Ohio where as a member of the Ohio Conference he was settled near Batavia, about twenty miles from Cincinnati. Later he was in Cincinnati for about a year and then was transferred to the Indiana Conference. He settled in Rush County where he purchased a farm. Leaving his wife, her two brothers and his two sons to carry on the work of the farm, he devoted himself wholly to his ministerial work. He was pastor of the Church in Indianapolis and presiding elder of the Indianapolis and Whitewater Districts and preacher at the Wesley Chapel in Madison and also elder of the Madison District and pastor of the Lawrenceburgh station. In 1840 he was sent as a delegate to the General Conference which met in New York. This afforded him the first opportunity to see his mother and others of his father's family since he left New York State over twenty-five years before. Augustus Eddy carried on his work for over fifty years. He was a man of unusually fine personal appearance, and with a most benevolent face, "a man without reproach, of noble character, single purpose and great piety." The children of Augustus and Martha (Thomas) Eddy are: (order of birth not known)
1. Zara Eddy
2. Mary Eliza Eddy
3. Alice Eddy
4. Elizabeth Jane Eddy
5. John Reynolds Eddy
6. Morris Riley Eddy
7. Thomas Mears Eddy
Gravesite Details
Burial Date: Feb 11, 1870
Family Members
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