Biography: Christian Shade, Tulpehocken Twp, Berks Co, PA

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While Christian's birthdate is not verified, his gravestone lists his date of 
death as January 19 1837 and gives age as "69 years 9 months" which would 
make his dob: April 19, 1767. It is believed that he was born in Berks Co PA.

In 1789 at the age of 23 he married 21 year old Catherine Riegel and began a 
family.  Then in early 1801 the family moved to Carlisle PA. where on May 26, 
1801,  with seven children under, all under 12 years of age he purchased town 
lot #360 in the Borough of Carlisle, Cumberland Co. PA.  for $1800 and on 
August 5, 1801 he there bought an additional lot (#61) containing one acre 
and one hundred and twenty perchas.  On April 12 1813 he sold 95 acres 142 
perches of this land to Peter Blosser for 1420 "pounds" and moved his family  
to Ohio, 

It is possible that his three oldest children remained in Carlisle (they 
would have been ages 19, 21, and 24 at the time he moved to Ohio) I have no 
information on them. I do believe that his other children went with him to 
Ohio.  


On June 15, 1813 he purchased 160 acres in Butler Twp, Columbiana Co.  His 
wife Catherine Riegel died there in 1817 at age 49, and is there buried.

Seven years later, On June 5, 1824 he sold 120 acres to George Brantingham, 
and  In 1831 he sold the remaining 40 acres (pt of SW 1/4 Sec 26 T16 Range 4) 
to his son John Shade for $800. (Ohio Deeds Book 13 pg 699 - copy in my 
possession)  This Deed signed by Christian and his wife Mary (this is the 
only known record that Christian re-married after the death of his first 
wife, Catherine Riegel)

Christian died in Seneca Co. OH  on January 19 , 1837 and is there buried in 
Smith Cemetery, Venice Twp. Seneca Co OH., a small abandoned cemetery located 
on land that was once owned by his son John. His obituary appeared in the 
Tiffin Gazette - Seneca Advertiser on Feb 18, 1837.