Background
Chisholm was born in Salem, Massachusetts and moved to Virginia to teach.
Chisholm was born in Salem, Massachusetts and moved to Virginia to teach.
About 20 people turned out for his funeral, conducted by a Baptist minister. Review Chisholm is buried in Portsmouth"s Cedar Grove cemetery. His memoirs of that epidemic, edited shortly after his death to emphasize the Christian values which prompted the somewhat delicate and retiring (if not bashful) cleric to exhibit fortitude through that epidemic are available at various sources.