Cyrus was born in 1772 the son of Johnathan and Submit Sumners. He married Mary Bell in 1803 in Roxbury, NJ. They moved to Canada and settled in Clinton, Ontario where they raised their ten children. Cyrus was a surgeon in the British Army in 1812 and was Assistant Surgeon to Major Sir Isaac Brock at Queenston Heights and also was commissioned Surgeon for the 4th Lincoln Regiment Militia in 1822. He passed away in 1832 and is buried with his wife in Grimsby Cemetery in Grimsby, Ontario.
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Source: S1 Title: The Hosmer Heritage: Ancestors and Descendants of the Emigrant Thomas Hosmer Author: Ronald Longaker Roberts. Publication: South Lake Tahoe, CA: 1984 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
Nellis–Nelles, Immigrants From the Palatinate, 1710, Vol. 1, published in 1997 by The Nellis and Nelles Family Associations and the Herkimer County Historical Society #1376, page 245
Find A Grave: Memorial #149139309 Beamsville Baptist Church - Beamsville. Niagara Municipality, Ontario
Grimsby Museum - Grimsby, Ontario
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Cyrus by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cyrus: