Re: Looking for Catherine Crist
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Re: Looking for Catherine Crist
Myra Evans 4/10/09
Hello distant cousin Myra,
According to info I must have picked up from the internet, Nicholas Crist Sr married 3 times.
1) Sarah Jane Cartmell died several years after their marriage on May 6, 1763. Nicholas children were born Henry T. 8/1765, Susan Catherine 9/1767, Nicholas Jr 6/1770, Rebecca 5/1773, and Jacob 12/1775. There is a gap of almost 3 years between 1767 and 1770 pointing to the time when he may have married Sarah Speers to take care of 2 motherless children. Sarah would have been 19 or 20 at the time and there were not many other available woman around in western PA in the late 1760's since the area was just opening up for settlement. Sarah would have been 20 or 25 years younger! Sarah Speers had a sister Rebecca and a brother Jacob after which she probably named those children. She did have a brother and father named Henry and a sister Susan too. If she married before Henry T. was born she would have had to be about 16 and Nicholas Sr in his 40's. Sarah's sister Christina married Samuel Frye 23 years her elder in 1767 and also move to sw PA. So this was not so unusual!
2) Sarah Speers born about 1748 died 1810 or 1814 could have married Nicholas about 1764 before Henry Thomas Crist was born 8/9/1765 or 1768 or 1769 when Nicholas Jr was born. It is an interesting question but not improbable.
3) Nicholas Sr married Sarah Doud or Dowd about 1814.
Not many records exist for that time period in Hampshire WV or sw PA. No churches existed in sw PA until the next decade.
I have another sister of Sarah Speers an Elizabeth who married a Kuykendall or Kirkendall about the same time and I have a lot of trouble finding out which one it was since she died before 1773. This marriage probably occurred in sw PA also in the late 1760's.
I think I read whee a Nicholas or Henry Crist was with Jacob Froman at Froman/Brashear Station (fort) in KY south of Louisville in 1779. Jacob is Regina Froman Speer/Spears nephew and also Sarah Speers 1st cousin. I will have to check.
Tom Speers
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