page_title: Silas Dinsmoor
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Silas Dinsmoor / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Dinsmore Homestead
context_page_description: Silas Dinsmoor was an appointed U. S. Agent to the Cherokee and to the Choctaw. He later served as a surveyor in Alabama before eventually retiring to Boone County, Kentucky, where he is buried at the Dinsmore Homestead.
context_section_description: Dinsmoor moved with his wife, Mary Gordon, and children to St. Stephens, the capital of the Alabama Territory, and then to Mobile.  He served for a time as Principal Surveyor for the Land Office in New Orleans. Again, he had personal troubles with his superior, George Davis, and was let go. Suffering financially from unpaid wages and a debt he had incurred as security for a friend, he was forced to go to Washington, D. C. in 1826 to plead for money.  While he was away from Mobile, he learned of the death of a son and the burning of the bank where he had stored his valuable surveying journals, business papers, and a silver sword Washington had presented to him during a visit to Mt. Vernon in 1798.
  In 1829 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and a year later he purchased land in Boone County, Kentucky.  The approximately 100 acre purchase included an orchard, a cabin, and Loughery Island in the Ohio River.  He lived here with his wife and son, Thomas, until his death in 1847.  He was buried in the family graveyard of his nephew, James Dinsmore, which is now part of the Dinsmore Homestead.  The papers he left are housed at Dartmouth.
caption: Dinsmoor's gravestone at the Dinsmore Homestead
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