Henry Cunningham (minister)

Cunningham was born in 1759. He served as the first minister of the Second African Baptist Church in Greene Square, Savannah, Georgia,^[1][2] between 1802 and 1833.^[3][4][5] He established the church with 25 other Baptists.^[6]

In 1810,^[7] he had built today's home at 117–119 Houston Street in Savannah, today known as the Henry Cunningham House.^[8][9]

Cunningham died in 1842, aged 82 or 83. His wife, Betsey, preceded him in death by four years. They are both interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery South in Savannah,^[10] having been removed from their initial resting place, a Negro burial ground near Whitefield Square.^[11][12]