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Seth S Crist

4 Aug 1861 – 1928

Birth4 Aug 1861
Death1928
CemeteryLiberty Cemetery
Custer County , Nebraska , USA
Added byDiane (Wonch) Stunkel on 28 Aug 2011
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75576526

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SETH S. CRIST The Crist family were among the very early settlers of Saunders County, Nebraska and have always stood for the best interest of every community where they have lived. Seth S. Crist was born in Mercer County, Illinois, August 4, 1861, fourth of six children born to Andrew and Catherine (Wagner) Crist. He has a brother at Thedford, Nebraska, a sister at Ansley, Nebraska, and a sister at Ashland, Nebraska, a brother at Kirk, Colorado, and a sister deceased. The father, Andrew Crist, was born in Carroll County, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish parentage, and died in Custer County, Nebraska, January 23, 1907, and the mother, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, is now living with her son, Seth, although she still owns the home place. Andrew Crist was married in Hancock County, Ohio in 1849, and in 1869 homesteads in Saunders County, Nebraska? When a small child of about eight years of age, Seth S. Crist accompanied his parents to Saunders County, where the family lived eleven years, and then went to Custer County, where they made their permanent home. He received his education in Nebraska and engaged in farming after he reached manhood. On September 25, 1880, he was married in Saunders County, to Eliza A. Masterson, who was born on the line between Monroe and Appanoose Counties, Iowa, and in childhood came to Nebraska with her grandfather, Clark Masterson, who migrated to the west after his wife's death. The parents, John Wesley and Martha Jane (Louder) Masterson, were both natives of Indiana. The young couple began housekeeping on their present home place in Custer County, on sections ten, fourteen and fifteen, township sixteen, range seventeen, where he homesteads one hundred and sixty acres of land. Their first dwelling was a dugout found on the place in section fifteen, when they first came, and in this they lived until 1890, and their present frame home was erected on section fourteen. We give a view of the home and it's surroundings, besides the one of the dugout elsewhere in this work. The place now comprises one hundred and twenty acres in section fourteen, and adjoining eighty acres in section fifteen. Mr. Crist and his wife had ten children, namely: Isaac M. married and living in Custer County, has two children; Ivan B. died in infancy; Susie R. , wife of John E Bray, of Sherman County, has six children; Amy S., wife of Fred Carmody, of Custer County, has three children; Andrew W., married and living in Custer County, has two children; Love to, wife of Jesse Carmody, of Valley County, has one child; H. Otis, Oscar William, Fern., and Emery R. , at home. Mr. Crist was identified with much of the early history of Nebraska, and is a patriotic and public-spirited citizen, whose integrity and uprightness have won him many friends. He served as director of school district number fourteen for five years, and in all measures affecting the public welfare endeavors to wield his influence on the side of progress and right. He has been in hiring in his efforts to bring his farm to a high state of productiveness, being recognized as one of the most progressive farmers of the county. Among the hardships of the early days was the dry year, 1894, when he, more fortunate than most neighbors, raised corn in the draws. He mowed his wheat and fed it like hay, thus wintering his stock quite comfortably. The hail the following year damaged only the corner of their farm. During the blizzard of April 12 to the 14, 1873, Mr. Crist and his father startedhome with some hogs, which the father had purchased. The boy, finding the storm too severe, returned to his uncle's and remained there until the storm abated; he remembers the fierce wind shook the house and gave them no little uneasiness. In the best known blizzard, that of January 12, 1888, Mr Crist started a neighborhood sale, and the when the storm broke made his way home. The children were kept in the school house until morning, when they were safely brought home, a very hungry lot. Please note that a distant family member had only a photocopy of this, apparently taken from the history of Custer County, NE. If anyone can identify that book, please add to this bio. Most likely the book is out of print. 2018 Contributor: Linda Armstrong John - [email protected]

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