Chattahoochee-Harris-Lincoln County GaArchives Biographies.....Christian, Thomas (Sr.) 1791 - 1863 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 November 4, 2004, 6:35 pm Author: N. K. Rogers CHRISTIAN Arranged from data furnished by T. W. Christian's Daughters. Mr. Thomas Wynn Christian, one of the most honorable, upright men who has lived in Chattahoochee County, came here with his parents in 1836. They came from Edgefield Dist., S. C. when they moved into. Ga., but they had originally lived in Virginia, where Thomas Chrstian Sr. was born in Winwiddie Co., March 7, 1791. He died in Chattahoochee Co., March 25, 1863. His wife, Lucy Williams Christian, was born in Lunenburg Co. Va., Sept. 9, 1794 and died in Chattahochee Co., Jan. 11, 1876. They had two daughters, Emily and Elizabeth, and five sons all of whom were in the Civil War at the same time, but only one of them, Chappell, was killed (at Rosaca). Thomas Wynn Christian was named for a neighbor of the Christian family in Edgefield, S. C., where he was born, Oct. 4, 1821. This neighbor Thomas Wynn gave his namesake when he was an infant a negro mammy for his nurse whom he called "granny”. When Mr. Christian was quite old and had fallen and broken his ankle at the beginning of a long illness, his daughters recall his talking to "Granny" in his delirum. He recovered from this illness and lived for seven years; these seven years with all the other years of his long and useful life being a benefaction to his family and community, for he lived by the Golden Rule. Thomas Wynn Christian married first Mary Jane Greer Sept. 8, 1847 and second Elizabeth Brown, who was from Lincoln Co., but was living in Harris Co. at the time of their marriage June 30, 1863. She died July 23, 1899. She had one son, Robert W. Christian, and one daughter, Sallie (Mrs. John Dillard). Mr. Christian and his first wife had one son, Thomas Richard (Dick) Christian (dec'd) and three daughters, Misses Lucy (dec'd) Emma and Ella Christian, (Mrs. Geo. W. Cargill). All the negroes and many white people called Mr. Christian "Old Master." Everybody loved him and the preachers made his house their home. His nephew, Dr. Jas. Van Horn, said, "When Mr. Fentress (M. E. preacher) starts to Heaven, he will go by Uncle Tom Christian's." When Mr. Christian was old and could not hear, he continued to attend services at his church regularly, following the habit so long established. People always spoke of his goodness and believed his life was guided by Christian principles. When the middle-aged men were needed during the War Between the States, he joined the 39th Ga. Cavalry. Two of his brothers went with Captain A. H. Flewellen's Company in 1861. They were Pinckney Whit and Stephen C. Christian. Names of the other two brothers were Abner and Joseph. Children of James Richard and Mary Emma McBride Christian, are Thomas William, Charles Ralph and Ida (Mrs. George F. Kunze). Thomas William m. Helen Sullivan of Rhode Island. Three children, Thomas Richard, Ralph, and Arthur. Ralph m. Cordelle Morgan. Two children Ralph Jr. and Agnes Marguerite. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA By N. K. Rogers Dedicated to KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C. and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers. Copyright 1933 by N. K. ROGERS PRINTED BY COLUMBUS OFFICE SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/chattahoochee/bios/gbs560christia.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb