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Rev Reuben Post
Birth 	17 Jan 1792
Cornwall, Addison County, Vermont, USA
Death 	24 Sep 1858 (aged 66)
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Burial 	
Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Memorial ID 	10467228 · View Source

In Memoriam.

Post, Reuben—Was born in Cornwall, Vermont, in 1792. His parents were
blessed with a son who loved the Lord in his youth; as soon as his academical
studies were completed, he entered Middleburg College, Vermont, and graduated
with honor in 1814. He studied Theology at the Seminary at Princeton, and
completed his course in 1818. On leaving the Seminary, he spent some time
as missionary in Virginia, having been licensed by Presbytery. He received
and accepted a call from the First Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C.,
and was ordained in 1819, and installed by the Presbytery of District of
Columbia, here he laboured with success; during two sessions he was chaplain
to the Senate of the United States.

In 1836 he received a call from the Circular Church, Charleston, S. C., which
he accepted, and became a member of Charleston Union Presbytery. Here he
laboured faithfully and zealously for twenty-three years, when he was taken
ill, during the prevalence of yellow fever, and died Sept. 24, 1858. He
left one son and a daughter.

He was a very attentive pastor, visiting all the members and families of
his congregation once a year, and always on hand to soothe the widow and
fatherless. Although absent from the city when the yellow fever broke out,
he hastened home to relieve the sick and dying, and attend to his other
pastoral duties; during these labours he was himself stricken down. He was
a noted man in the community of Charleston. His funeral sermon was preached
by J. L. Kirkpatrick, D.D., pastor of Glebe Street Church, and published.

--Published in Joseph M. Wilson, The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and
Annual Remembrances of the Church, for 1860, Philadelphia: Joseph M. Wilson,
1860, p. 77.

Family Members
Parents

    Roswell Post
    1753–1827

    Martha Mead Post
    1756–1807

Spouse

    Harriott Lee Maffitt Post
    1805–1857 (m. 1823)

Siblings

    Martin Post
    1778–1811

    Elizabeth Post Sanford
    1781–1853

    Mehetable Post Foot
    1783–1872

    Clarinda Post Greene
    1794–1837

    Truman Post
    1796–1847

Children

    Frances A. Post
    1833–1852

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