Charles N. Kingsbury	Agnes Parker Kingsbury
1831-1923	1840-1924

 
Charles Nelson Kingsbury, grandson and great-grandson of revolutionary war veterans was born February 8, 1831, in Utica, New York. Agnes Parker was born July 4, 1840, in Pictou, Nova Scotia, but she spent most of her childhood in Oakham, Mass.  Charles came to California in 1852 with Leland Stanford, then mined his way to Shasta County. In 1857 Agnes came with her brother, Adam, on muleback across the Isthmus of Panama to teach at Piety Hill. They met and were married December 4, 1857.

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

 
The Kingsburys had eight grandchildren. They lived to celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary and to know three of their ten great-grandchildren. Charles died July 7, 1923, at the age of 92 and Agnes died the following March at the age of 83.

Source:  Shasta Historical Society