Rev. Charles Fay

1808 - 1888  (80 years)

• Name	Charles Fay  [1]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	21 Jul 1808	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Nov 1888	New York, New York   [2, 3, 5, 6]
  Burial	Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [5]
  Person ID	I21000	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay,   b. 10 Jan 1778, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 18 May 1856, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Harriet Howard,   b. 27 Mar 1782, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 27 Jul 1847, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	Aft 31 Jul 1803	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [7]
  Family ID	F12491	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charlotte Emily Hopkins,   b. 4 May 1817, Ligonier, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania d. 23 Sep 1856, St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont (Age 39 years)
  Children	+ 1. Katherine Maria Fay,   b. 6 Jul 1847, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana d. 29 May 1928, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F12492	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "The Rev. Charles Fay, D.D., of Vermont, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 21, 1808. He was graduated from Harvard College with honor 1829; in 1832 he became assistant teacher in the school established by Bishop Hopkins at Burlington, Vt., and was ordained Deacon in 1833. He organized St. Paul's Church, Vergennes, Vt., in 1838; he took charge of St John's, Highgate; in 1841, established a school for young ladies near Macon, Ga.; thence he removed in 1844 to Louisiana, and engaged in missionary work at Bayou Goula, then at New Orleans. In 1848, he was called to St Luke's, at St Albans, Vt. From 1857 to 1870, he was in charge of St. Paul's Church at Marquette, when he returned to Vermont, making his home at Grand Isle. He died in New York on the 6th of November, 1888, at the age of eighty." ["The Report on the Committee on Memorials of Deceased Members", citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1809] Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917 by J. Gardner Bartlett. Boston: Stone Family Association, 1918. [S2955] "Biographical Sketches," Fay-Mixter Family Papers., year only. [S2956] "The Report on the Committee on Memorials of Deceased Members." Journal of the Proceedings of the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Assembled in a General Convention, Held in the City of New York, from October 2 to October 24, Inclusive, in the Year of Our Lord 1889. New York, 1890. [S2959] Arthur Wilmot Ackerman and Harold Clark Durrell, "Memoirs of Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 83:330, Jul 1929. [S2957] Find a Grave page for Rev Charles Fay. [S2959] Arthur Wilmot Ackerman and Harold Clark Durrell, "Memoirs of Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 83:330, Jul 1929., date only. [S2304] Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts. 2009 edition, 2012 reprint with 2015 corrigenda. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.