Cyrus F. Carter

Cyrus F. Carter

Reverend Cyrus Franklin Carter was born enslaved in 1815 in Port-as-Prince, Haiti. When he was a young child, his family was relocated to Lancaster County, Virginia, where he resided until enslaved people were emancipated during the Civil War. Along with his family, he moved to Northern Virginia, and drove a Union wagon throughout the remainder of the war. When he became a reverend is unclear, but he founded four churches in Northern Virginia before his death in 1891: First Baptist Church Chesterbrook, First Baptist Church Vienna, Shiloh Baptist Church, and Mount Salvation Baptist Church, Arlington. He is buried in the cemetery adjoining First Baptist Church Chesterbrook

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1891

Reverend

Dranesville