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The following obit is here with permission of the Bristol Herald Courier, in Bristol, VA.
Lee Roy Christian
GRUNDY-Lee Roy Christian, 63, of the Wolford area of Route 3, passed away Saturday, Jan. 5, 2002, at Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Robert Earl and Carrie Edna Lester Christian. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County, a member of Knox Creek Church of God and a disabled coal miner. Mr. Christian is survived by his wife, Leona Lester Christian, Route 3, Grundy; three sons, Roy Christian Jr., Route 3, Grundy, Robert Earl and wife, Carrie Christian, Elkton, Md., and Bradley Martin Christian, Route 3, Grundy; one sister, Effie Ranies, Breaks, Va., one brother, Harvey Christian, McKinleville, Calif.; and two step-grandchildren, Aaron and Eric Biggs. He was preceded in death by one sister, Mary Christian; and two brothers, Lawrence and Willie Christian. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2002, at 1 p.m. at Knox Creek Church of God near Hurley, Va., with Revs. Henry Rowe, Donnie !
Prater and Doug Blankenship officiating with burial to follow in Wolford Cemetery, Wolford, Va. Services also will be held Monday evening at 7 p.m. Active pallbearers will be family and friends. Grundy Funeral Home of Grundy is in charge of all arrangements.
Note: I am of no relation, but my sympathies go out to those of you who are.
In my data base I have a William Skelton Christian b
1835 (TN) married to Elizabeth Armstrong and they were
not heard from after 1882/1885 when they were in Oregon.
In the 1880 Census of Washington, Lafayette County,
Missouri there is a a
William Christian, farmer, age 45 born in TN, TN, TN
Eliza, wife, keeping house, born in TN, TN, TN
John, son, age 17, born in TN, TN, TN
Mattie, daughter, age 13, born in VA, TN, TN
William F., son, age 4, born in MO, TN, TN
Mary E., daughter, age 2, born in MO, TN, TN
Does anyone know if the census is about the same William
and Eliza as in the first paragraph?
Audrey Cox Vogelpohl
Seattle, Washington
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Surnames: Christian,Thornton, Nolan, Fowler
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My grandparents are John William Christian he married Laura Oma Thornton. John parents are James Marion Christian and Pearl Nolan. Laura parents are James Andrew Thornton and Isabelle Fowler. If you have any of these names please contact me. THANKS Pam GottaGoPrice(a)aol.com
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Surnames: Christian
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I am looking for information on the children of Mose Christian and Nancy Reed of McDowell Co,Wv. I know that they had at least 10 children.I need b- d- m- dates.
Thanks Bob Christian
Does anyone have any info on Clara E. CHRISTIAN? She was born in
Slatersville, RI, 3-9-1893 and died in Oxford, MA, 10-2-1983. Married Edward
Gardner (no date).
Annie
Many of you have been following my posts concerning Professor Hagy's 1966
thesis on Castle's Woods: Frontier Virginia Settlement, 1769-1799 written
while he was a student at East Tennessee State University in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for a Degree of Master of Arts (History) I
was fortunate to secure an original copy of his thesis from a rare book
dealer and subsequently offered to make copies for interested researchers.
The thesis contained no copyright provisions but a couple of folks encouraged
me to try to locate Professor Hagy, some 37 years after he published it. The
results of my search are quite interesting, but before I tell you what
happened let me first give a brief overview of the Castle's Woods settlement
for those who are new to the list.
"This thesis is a narrative account of the frontier settlement of Castle's
Woods. The community is an interesting case study of the ideas of Frederick
Jackson Turner regarding the frontier.
Castle's Woods in many ways fits the pattern of the typical frontier
community. Apparently first settled by a long hunter, Castle's Woods, like a
magnet, drew westward the classic frontier types, hunters, farmers,
speculators, surveyors, artisans, and preachers. Even some aristocrates
settled there. The usual frontier customs and activities were observed in
the community. These included a considerable amount of lawlessness. The
greatest problem for the settlers in Castle's Woods was the Indians who were
a menace from the time of the first settlement until nearly the end of the
eighteenth century. After the Indian problem had been eliminated, the
frontier stage quickly passed away......
A large amount of primary materials were used in this study. The most
important sources were county records, state archives, national archives, and
the Draper Manuscripts."
The importance of Castle's Woods is twofold. First, it had its day of importa
nce as a stepping stone to the West. Secondly, it is important as a case
study of the American frontier. It was the first permanent settlement in
Russell County, Virginia, founded in 1769 and located on the Clinch River.
Castle's Woods was a stopping off place for folks on their way West. A
generation or two earlier many of these settlers had been in the Shenandoah
Valley around Augusta and Rockbridge Counties and before that Pennsylvania
and Ireland. Soon they would leave southwest Virginia and begin to populate
Kentucky, Tennessee and later Texas, Arkansas, and points north and west.
These were the pioneers that made Walt Disney famous; Daniel Boone, Samuel
Houston, David Crockett and many like Boone, paused briefly in Castle's Woods
before heading out into the pages of history.
So, where does one begin to look for someone 37 years after he writes a nice
research paper? My 16 year old son looked up from his computer, said
"whitepages.com" and in less than five minutes I was speaking with Professor
Hagy who is now almost 67 and living the good life in central Florida. We
had a nice chat and I thanked him for the work he had done and told him I was
making copies of his thesis for genealogists on the internet and he said that
he had no plans to reprint the thesis and to "copy away." We talked mostly
about how important it was to preserve obscure source materials and what a
great value the internet was to accomplishing that task.
I have enjoyed seeing this project grow from finding a single copy of an
important, somewhat obscure document to a situation where enough people have
copies that it should always be available. As in the past I make the same
offer again. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of Professor Hagy's
thesis please contact me privately at cscunc(a)aol.com for details.
Regards,
Robert Cowan
525 Harrogate Rd.
Matthews, North Carolina 28105
If I send this post to your list it means one of two things. Your surname is
in the document OR there is a very high probability your county was settled
by some of the people who lived in Castle's Woods. (On your Virginia map
find Abingdon and look a little to the west. You see the small community of
Castlewood which is how the named evolved.)
Some of the surnames are: Cowan, Walker, Russell, Montgomery, Porter, Moore,
Campbell, Stuart/Stewart, Houston, Shelby, Anderson, Smith, Gist, Pitman,
Robinson, Boles, Stapelton, Thompson, Fleming, Floyd, Kincaid, Knox, Woods,
Fraley, Castle, Snoddy, Stoner, Dickenson, Bickley, Boone, Scott, Bryan,
Preston, Christian, Crockett, Estill, Bledsoe, Lynch, Hamlin, Lewis, Harman,
Bell, Gillespie, Cunningham, Osbourne, English, Kilgore, Green, Brown,
Duncan, King, Johnson, Black, Davis, Wier, Kerr, McCorkle, Hill, Phillips,
Best, Asbury, Alley, Walls, Jones, Barnett, Calhoun, Beavers, Ward, Price,
Bowen, Carter, Logan, Kennedy and others.....
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No done of these names ring a bell. must be another line of Christians. There are allot of them. Annie
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Hi Lori, I am beging to think, she was form no were. Christian was her married name. But thank you. They lived in New Hampshire. If you need anything form Boston, just let me know. ok.
Julie
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My Clara was born in 1870. Her father was Isadore Christian and her step mother was Martha Hubbard. I think her siblings were Mary, Francis(Frank), William, Adelia and a brother who's name starts with an E but is unreadable on the census sheet. Only one of her sisters was not from Martha and all the boys were hers. I don't have her biological mothers name yet. Clara married Gustavius Zapfe in 1890 in Caro, Michigan. Does any of this work?
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Hi, My greatgrandmother's name was Clara and she was from Canada. She moved to New Hampshire. Were is your grandmother from. My grandmother 's name was Julia Rita Christian. She has two sisters. Rose and Catherine. And a few brother. Frank, Eugene and Emile. Clara was married to a Eugene Christian. Hope that helps.
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Surnames: Christian, Frazier
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I am interested in obtaining Rit Christian's correct email or snail mail address. He, too, is related to my Andrew Sr and Jr. of Virginia and Kentucky. Thanks for any help. Linda J Fleming momkkbj(a)aol.com
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I would like to correct my query. Thomas Christian that married Margaret Vandike and Thomas V. Christian that married Sallie Altizer is two different Thomas's. Thomas Christian was my grandfather. Thomas V. Christian was my uncle. Sorry for the wrong information. Annie
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Clara I'm sorry I can't help you. My Christians are in Virginia and W. Virginia. Keep looking and hopefully someone will turn up. Annie
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Surnames: CONLEY-DEEL- WILLS
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or CONLEYS OF RUSHCREEK KANAWHA COUNTY OR CLENDENIN OR FAYETTE COUNTY OR PUTNEY OR MONTGOMERYCARBONDALE WVA. SOME NAMES --William MCKINLEY CONLEY-1856-1935----MARY ANN DEEL CONLEY--1885--1930-----GEORGE FLOYD CONLEY--1876---1954-----MELISSA FRANCES WILLS CONLEY--1890--1963 COALFORK. KANAWHA COUNTY WVA. IF YOU HAVE THESE PEOPLE PLAESE E-MAIL ME AT bunkhouse(a)hctc.net Judy
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My Great grandmother's name was Clara Vallee, Great grandfather Eugene Christian, Children--Julia, Rose,Catherine,Frank, Eugene. Clare Vallee was from Canada, she died in NH. Julia was born in Canada, she died in Boston. She has one son Carl D. Goss. He has also past away. Catherine married name is Fisher, Rose 's is Middleston. And Frank married twice , both wife's were named Rose.. from what I was told. If anyone can help, please email me. Just want to me family and get to know about my greadmother, Julia Christian.
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My greatgrandmother's name was Clara and she was from Canada, my greadmother was born in Canada. They moved to Nasha NH. Will they ended up there. My greadmother's name was Julia, she had sister's name: Rose and Catherine. She also had brother's Eugene and Frank. My greatfather's name was Eugene.