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About the Author: Greg Cunningham

Home » Articles From The Community » About the Author: Greg Cunningham

Greg Cunningham spent the greatest moments of his life in Chicago, IL.  He was born and 6 months later he moved.  See I have a good sense of humor.  Yes that was the first of over 20 moves.  When my dad took a promotion it was not in the same building, but in a different state.  My life and job’s have also taken me up and down the east coast. 

I started life February 21, 1966 in Chicago, IL and then moved to Cincinnati, OH, Pittsfield, MA, Newark, DE, Schenectady, NY, North and South Daytona Beach, FL, St. Cloud, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Gainesville, FL (BA at the University of Florida), Alexandria, VA, Woodbridge, VA, Fredericksburg, VA, Locust Grove, VA, Winchester, VA and as of today I live in Capon Bridge, WV with my beautiful wife Trisha Ann (Brooks) Cunningham.  We celebrated our 1st year wedding anniversary April 23, 2010 (been together for 3), and she makes everyday worth waking up to.  I work for the dreaded over paid federal government, and I got the genealogy bug from my father (Robert Lee Cunningham).  Google my name on the internet and you will see many Cunningham stories including The Life of Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Cunningham, published in 3 installments by Sea Classics, Corporal Michael Hayes Branninger Cunningham of the 18th Wisconsin Volunteers, published in America’s Civil War and American Apostles John Cunningham and Henry Harrison Deam.  All three were recently published in three issues of the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society’s newsletter.  Many of my ancestors (my wife too) came from Wisconsin. 

Thirteen American generations of the Wakelee/Wakeleys started with James Wakelee of Hartford, and Wethersfield, CT.  Stratford and Trumbull, CT were also home to 6 generations of Wakelees including David Wakelee, an Ensign of the Ninth Company of the Alarm List, 4th Regiment of the State of CT.  He received his commission in 1778 from Captain General Jonathan Trumbull.  I’m a member of the Sons of the American Revolution from my being descendant from David Wakelee.  David Wakelee was also a Sergeant in the Fourth Company, 2nd Regiment under Colonel Nathan Whiting in 1762.  I recently became inducted into the Sons of the American Colonists.  Ebenezer Wakeley, Jr. (Private in the First CT Light Artillery, wounded at Chester Station, VA), would be the first generation to move West.  He moved to Chicago, IL after the Civil War.  My first Wakeley story was Ebenezer Wakeley’s eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, published in the newsletter of the Genealogical Society of Chicago.  His son Ebenezer Stone Wakeley, would have a son named, Ryland Stone Wakeley, who would in turn raise my wonderful mother Marilynn Viola Wakeley.  I hope you enjoy my newest attempt at trying to tell a story from the cobwebs left over by 13 generations of Wakeleys.  God Bless.

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Articles from the Community

  • Articles from the Community
    • 284 Brimfield Road
    • A Birds-eye View of Wethersfield's History
    • A Boyhood Visit to G. Fox & Company
    • A Brief History of Wethersfield United Methodist Church
    • A History of Franklin Avenue
    • A History of Temple Beth Torah
    • A Life of William Beadle
    • A Shepard and his Flock: Counting Chairs and Tracking Down Apprentices at the Wethersfield Historical Society
    • A Whaling Family
    • About the Authors
    • Black History in Wethersfield
    • Childhood Memories of the Wethersfield Homefront
    • Colonel John Chester
    • Connecticut at War: 1634 – 1781
    • Connecticut's Black Governors
    • Connecticut's Witch Trials
    • Dividend
    • Fairway 6
    • Foodways
    • Francesco A. Lentini – Three-Legged Wonder
    • Frank and Lou
    • George Whitefield – The Billy Graham of Colonial America
    • Governor Thomas Welles
    • Griswoldville Connecticut (1680-1987)
    • History of Public Libraries in Wethersfield
    • History of the Church of the Incarnation
    • History of Trinity Parish (Episcopal)
    • History of Wethersfield Library
    • Horribles Parade
    • Horseradish King
    • Houses of Worship
    • Irish Immigrants in Wethersfield 1860 to 1900: Outcasts to Neighbors
    • Issacson's Field Plane Crash
    • Jared Butler Standish
    • Meet Mr. Wethersfield: Alfred W. Hanmer
    • Mill Woods Park: A History
    • One Branch of the Josiah Willard Family of Wethersfield
    • Rediscovering Benjamin Lee Whorf
    • Religion in Glastonbury: the Congregationalists
    • Reverend and Colonel Elisha Williams
    • Rocky Hill: A History
    • Sgt. Maj. Robert H. Kellogg
    • Slavery and Wethersfield
    • Sophia Woodhouse's Grass Bonnets
    • Still Fighting Fires After All These Years
    • Table of Contents
    • The "Conference State"
    • The Blue Violet
    • The Chesters of Blaby Leicestershire England
    • The Contentious Life of James Wakelee
    • The Eel-Catcher’s Travels: Robert Seeley 1602-1667
    • The First Church of Christ
    • The Undoing of Silas Deane
    • The Welles Family and the Establishment of Newington
    • The Wethersfield Elms
    • The Wethersfield Meteorites
    • The Woman Came To Do Laundry
    • They Even Survived Rocks on the Track
    • Thomas Hickey: George Washington's Wethersfield Kidnapper
    • Town's Biggest Fire
    • Twentieth-Century Wethersfield
    • Wethersfield Almshouse 1843-44
    • Wethersfield Enters the Revolution
    • Wethersfield Evangelical Free Church
    • Wethersfield Illinois
    • Wethersfield in the Civil War by Wes Christensen
    • Wethersfield Prison Blues
    • Wethersfield Street Life 1634-1995
    • Wethersfield Summers
    • Wethersfield: A History
    • Wethersfield: The Cradle of American Seed Companies
    • Wethersfield's "Other" Plane Accidents
    • Wethersfield's Homebuilders: 1634 – 1900
    • Wethersfield's Homebuilders: 1900 – 1930
    • Wethersfield's Homebuilders: 1940s and Beyond
    • Wethersfield's Top 10 Natural Disasters
    • Wethersfield’s Dinosaur Footprints
    • Wethersfield's Glorious Baseball History
    • Who was Charles Wright?
    • William W. Anderson Veteran of the Allied Invasion of Normandy June 6
    • Wintergreen Woods: A History
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