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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and is buried at Switzer’s Chapel at Switzerville</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ontario</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Canada.  He married about 1792 </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''408. Darius-5 Dunham''' was born about March 1762; died in Fredericksburg, 13 September 1825 and is buried at Switzer’s Chapel at Switzerville, Ontario, Canada, Find A Grave Memorial # [https://www.findagrave.com//memorial/189657963 189657963]. He married about 1792 Elizabeth Detlor. She was the daughter of Valentine Detlor (1726-1798 (from Ireland) and Catherine Hill and Elizabeth died near Napanee at the home of her son Enoch Fletcher-6 Dunham on March 1, 1848. She is buried in the Riverside Cemetery at Napanee, Find A Grave Memorial # [https://www.findagrave.com//memorial/189635758 189635758].</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::Darius Dunham (1762-1825) was one of these young men, age about 26 years old in 1788. He had been training to become a physician, but the allure of ministering to the people of the </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Methodist faith appealed to him.  </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">::From: Abby L. Heningway, Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. 3, p. 470 under the History of Methodism in Brandon, Vermont: “In 1788 Darius Dunham was appointed to the Shoreham circuit, and Samuel Wigton to Lake Champlain.”  On page 1194 under the Methodist Episcopal Church: “Rev. Darius Dunham came to Wells, Rutland Co., VT to preach in 1789.”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Quinte; under the First Wesleyan Methodists in Canada, p. 290: </ins></div></td></tr>
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'''408. Darius-5 Dunham''' was born about March 1762; died in Fredericksburg, 13 September 1825 <br />
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