Caldwell County MO Archives History .....CHRISTIAN SCHNEITER, SWISS SETTLER IN CALDWELL COUNTY 1867 
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CHRISTIAN SCHNEITER, SWISS SETTLER IN CALDWELL COUNTY 1867
	Narrator:  Mrs. Sam Teegarden of Nettleton, Missouri

     Christian Schneiter, father of Mrs. Sam Teegarden was born in Canton 
Berne Switzerland 1831.  He came to the United States 1867, with a Swiss 
colony and settled in New York Township in Caldwell County, Missouri.  The 
next year he sent for his wife and five children.  He soon found out that 
there was good money to be made digging wells for the settlers who were 
flocking into the prairie land.  He laid money and bought at first twenty 
acres and finally owned one hundred sixty acres.  With much well digging on 
hand, he was gone quite a bit, leaving the farm work largely to the wife and 
nine children.  Mrs. Teegarden recalls how her mother would work in the fields 
day by day and then go out on the prairies after the cows in the afternoon to 
milk.
     Reminiscent of the 1934 drought, she recalls the 1874 drought when the 
farmers instead of digging wells to water their stock, as farmers do now, 
would turn them loose to find their own water in water holes and creeks 
scattered over the prairies.  She could recall hearing the cows low in their 
great desire for water.  Her sister Mary married John Shaney; both Mrs. Shaney 
and Mrs. Teegarden married farmers and settled in Gomer township.
     Interviewed  August 1934.


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