Caldwell County MO Archives History .....DAVID CHRIST [CRIST] FAMILY OF NEW YORK TWP 
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THE DAVID CHRIST [CRIST] FAMILY OF NEW YORK TWP.
	Narrator:  Mrs. Ada Smith, Hamilton

     The first settler of this family, David Christ, came with his wife and 
children in a wagon with oxen in the early fifties, and entered land in New 
York township (not then called by this name).  He came into a settlement of 
Virginians, as he was.  His farm was near the old Cox cemetery, and there he 
and his wife are buried.  He died shortly before the Civil War and his estate 
was settled up 1864 by his eldest son, James Christ who was a farmer in the 
same district.  This James had a son Walter who now at age 72 lives near 
Bonanza.  Then there was another son William who died very shortly after his 
father and his estate was administered by James M. Bowers a neighbor; these 
were of his older children; he had one son Renick Christ who was born 1855 at 
the Christ home in New York township, who was very much younger than the 
brothers mentioned.  He died 1934 in Hamilton at the home of his daughter Mrs. 
Smith.  His boyhood was passed in a very pioneer atmosphere.  He often spoke 
of the tall prairie grass everywhere in his boyhood.  No roads, just trails, 
no bridges, just fords over the numerous creeks of that township.  No schools, 
no churches to go to , few neighbors, and no father after his fifth year.  Of 
course, by the 70s, there were roads laid off by the section lines, but there 
was no law to make you go by roads rather than by the open prairie.  Renick 
Christ in 1883, married Nancy Elizabeth Floyd of this county and she died 
1900.  He spent all his life in this county except 12, when he tried living in 
Kentucky, having family relations there.  He came back to Caldwell county 
satisfied to finish here.  He belonged to Hopewell Baptist church and he is 
buried in that cemetery.  His brother James A. Christ (1838-1811) [1901] and 
his wife also rests there.
     Interview  August 1935.


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