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Though they lived a brief time in Red Bluff, most of their lives were spent at Piety Hill, later known as Igo. Charles Kingsbury worked as a miner, carpenter, storekeeper, postmaster, constable, and cattle rancher--often more than one at a time. He was the chairman of the first County Republican Convention which sent a delegate to Springfield to nominate Abraham Lincoln.
Though she took the school into her own home on occasion to prevent
it from lapsing when they couldn't get a teacher, Agnes Kingsbury devoted
her life to her numerous offspring--three generations. The Kingsbury
children were:
Ruamie | 1858-1947 | cook and homemaker - married Charles Brown |
John | 1860-1926 | miner |
George | 1863-1882 | |
Annie | 1866-1935 | teacher and homemaker - married Matthew MacIlwaine |
Charlotte | 1868- 1956 | teacher - Married Charles Cunningham |
Charles | 1870- 1944 | miner, highway builder, rancher |
Mary | 1872- 1926 | homemaker, dressmaker - married Charles White |
Albert | 1874-1949 | miner, rancher |
William | 1876- 1933 | miner, rancher, County Supervisor - married May Stevens |
Adam "Trilby" | 1879-1962 | rancher, miner) baseball player |
Source: Shasta Historical Society
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