Union-Marion-Delaware County OhArchives Obituaries.....Crist, Ashel Clark July 1911
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The Marysville Tribune, July 26, 1911

Rev. A. C. Crist, A Native of Union County, Died in Delaware Thursday Morning
Rev. A. C. Crist, a native of Union County, died at his home in Delaware at 
5:30 o’clock Thursday morning, from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy he 
suffered Tuesday afternoon. He was unconscious from the time of the stroke 
until the end.
Rev. Crist has been regarded as a sort of pastor at large in the Marion 
Presbytery. By reason of his long and successful pastorates at Iberia and 
Ostrander he was well, widely and most favorably known. As a teacher he had 
gained great prominence. The lives of hundreds of students have been powerfully 
impressed by his noble individuality. 
The Crist family traces back through five generations in this country to three 
brothers, Johannes, Henrichus and Stephanus Christus. They were natives of 
Alsace, Germany, and were among the large number of Huguenot refugees who came 
to America during the latter part of the seventeenth century as a result of the 
revocation of the edict of Nantes. 
They settled in New York, and in the course of time the name became anglicized, 
the “H” and “US” being dropped. Henry Crist, the grandfather, moved to the 
adjoining county of Sullivan. In religious belief they were German Lutherans. 
Here Rev. Crist’s father, the third Henry, was born January 8, 1811. He was a 
carpenter most of his life. He moved to Hocking county, Ohio, in 1838 and 
resided there until 1848 when he took up his residence in Union county.
He married Miss Marian Hollister, of New York. This union was blessed by a 
family of 11 children, one of whom was Ashel Clark Crist, who was born in 
Hocking county, April 19, 1845, the fifth child of his parents. He remained at 
home, helping to clear up the farm, until he was 19 years old, having only the 
advantages of district school during three or four months of the winter season. 
During the summer of 1864 Rev. Crist served in Company D, 186th Regiment, O. V. 
I. and entered the Marysville high school in the fall of that year. He attended 
a district school for three months during the Winter. He united with the 
Presbyterian church of Marysville in the Fall of 1865 and was taken under the 
charge of Marion Presbytery at Cardington in the Spring of 1866. That summer he 
was employed as a colporteur for the Presbytery and canvassed all that part of 
the Presbytery west of the Big Four railway. The following winter he again 
taught district school and attended Marysville High school the remainder of the 
time.
He graduated from the Vermillion Institute at Hayesville in 1870. He was tutor 
of mathematics there for two yeas. Immediately after graduating he entered the 
Western Theological Seminary. During his junior vacation he taught a select 
school in Pennsylvania for five months. He was licensed to preach at Liberty 
church in the Marion Presbytery in 1872 and supplied Brown, Kingston, and 
Porter churches that summer.
Mr. Crist was graduated at Western Theological Seminary in 1873 and immediately 
took charge of Brown, Kingston and Porter churches, living at Eden.
He was ordained at Trenton, April 23, 1874. The next year he supplied Berlin 
and Brown churches until 1876. During 1875, he also supplied Ashley.
In 1876 he was elected as professor of languages in the Ohio Central College at 
Iberia and removed there August 15. In 1877 he took up the pastorate of the 
Presbyterian church at Iberia, where he remained for twelve years. For about 
five years of time he supplied the pulpit at Caledonia. In 1889, he took charge 
of the Ostrander church and supplied at Providence and Jerome. This 
relationship was dissolved in 1897. 
On August 21, 1872, Mr. Crist was married to Lovina H., daughter of James 
Pocock. The children were born at Eden, Bessie and Harry Mickliff. The former 
died in 1894, the latter, now serving his third term in the general assembly. 
He was a member of the George B. Torrence Post No. 60, G. A. R. and was 
recognized as a man of high intellectual attainments.
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