Biographical Sketch of Christian Flutsch, Gasconade County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Christian Flutsch, farmer, is the son of John and Elizabeth (Fausch)
Flutsch, both natives of Switzerland.  The father was a farmer by
occupation.  Both parents died in the old country, the father in 1865,
and the mother a few years later. In their family were seven children,
four sons and three daughters.  Two sons and one daughter came to this
country.  The eldest child, Christian, was born in Switzerland, in 
1830, was reared on a farm, and in 1858 came to America, locating in
Gasconade County, where, in the same year, he married Miss Mary Felix,
also a native of Switzerland, born in 1826.  She came to this country
on the same ship that he did. Four children were born to Mr. Flutsch's
marriage, three sons and one daughter. In 1865 Mr. Flutsch was drafted
in Company K, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry,
United States army, and was transferred to the Eleventh Missouri Infan-
try.  He was in the battle of Spanish Fort, and was discharged in 
January, 1866.  He is a Republican in politics, and both he and Mrs.
Flutsch are of the Evangelical faith.  He is a good farmer, owning 140
acres, and although he came to this country in debt, is now in very
comfortable circumstances, all the result of his own efforts.

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