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Obituary for Mary Ann Tate Christian.

Source: Tarkio Avalanche. 3 June 1921. p.1. col.5.

Mrs. Mary A. Christian died at her home, Wednesday morning, May 25, 1921, after several weeks illness. Mary Ann Tate was born near Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, January 13, 1828, and came to Missouri with her parents when 11 years of age. They settled on the homestead northwest of Tarkio in 1851 and this was her home for 70 years.

On February 5th, 1857, she was united in holy wedlock with James C. H. Christian, who was laid away twenty-one years ago. Mrs. Christian was well known throughout the community as a kind and hospitable neighbor; and many will feel her loss keenly. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Tarkio.

The deseased leaves five children, Columbus A. of Kansas City, Cread F. of Newman's Grove, Nebraska, Margaret M. and Thomas T. of Tarkio, and Jesse E. of Pine River, Minn., fourteen grandchildren, and twenty-seven great grandchildren. She is survived by one brother, C. L. Tate of Hulett, Wyoming and one sister, Margaret T. Davenport of Tarkio. All of Mrs. Christian's children except for Cread F. of Newman's Grove, Nebr., were present at the funeral. He was unable to come because of sickness in the family.

The funeral services were held at the home and interment took place in the Tarkio Cemetary. The services were conducted by Rev. Halsey of the Presbyterian Church.

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Mary married James Cannon Houston Christian. James was born 30 Mar 1833, Newport, Cocke Co. TN; died 17 Mar 1900, Tarkio, Atchison Co. MO; was buried , Tarkio Home Cemetery, Tarkio, Atchison Co. MO. [Group Sheet]

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Obituary of Columbus Alexander Christian.

Source: The Tarkio Avalanche. 16 Sept 1921.

C. A. Christian, formerly a resident of Tarkio, died suddenly on Wednesday evening, September 7th, just as the interurban car on which he was a passenger pulled into the station at St. Joseph.

Funeral services were held on Saturday afternoon, September 10th, at the home of the dead man's sister, Miss. Margaret Christian, north of Tarkio. Rev. J. Jay Cokeley of Centennial Church preached the funeral sermon.

Burial was delayed until the next afternoon, waiting the arrival of a son, James C. Christian, from Mountain Home, Idaho. Rev. Bentley of St. Joseph held prayer services at the home and at the grave at Tarkio Cemetary on Sunday. Among the out-of-town attendants at the funeral, in addition to the relatives, were A. L. McPherson, True Davis, and T. F. McKee of St. Joseph.

Mr. Christian lived in and near Tarkio for more than fifty years of his life and had many relatives and friends throughout the county. He had led an active and useful life and until the illness which eventually caused his death was unusually vigorous for a man of his years. Although the doctors had offered but little hope for his full recovery, his sudden death was a shock to the whole community.

Columbus Alexander Christian was born near Rock Port, Missouri January 3, 1858, son of J. C. H. and Mary Christian. He died at St. Joseph, Missouri, Wednesday, September 7, 1921, aged 63 years, 8 months, and 4 days.

When he was yet a boy, the family moved to the Christian homestead north of Tarkio where C. A. Christian grew to manhood. On September 16, 1878, he was united in marriage to Flora D. Bennett of Summit, Mississippi and to this union nine children were born, all of them now living. They are Ben F. Christian, Pine River, Minnesota; Mrs. Burton E. Wetherell, Carthage, Missouri; James C. Christian, Mountain Home, Idaho; Mrs. Chancey E. Clark, Long Beach, California; George T. Christian, South America; Mrs. Harry Ward, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Gordon Jones, St. Joseph, Missouri; Harry S. Christian, Tarkio, Missouri; Mrs. Hope Mayfield, St. Joseph, Missouri. Of the twenty one grandchildren, nineteen are still living. Three brothers and a sister also remain to mourn the loss. They are T. T. Christian, Tarkio, Missouri; Jesse E. Christian, Pine River, Minnesota; Creed F. Christian, Newman's Grove, Nebraska; and Margaret M. Christian, Tarkio, Missouri.

Mr. Christian was engaged in farming and stockraising near Tarkio until 1908, where he removed to St. Joseph, Missouri. Mrs. Christian died in 1917, since when he has made his home for the most part in Kansas City and St. Joseph.

Hundreds of people, of three generations in this community, regarded 'Lum' Christian as a real friend. Few men have been held in such high esteem and by so many people for so long a time. The sincerity of his nature and the honesty of his whole life will be remembered always by everyone who called him friend and to all of these his going is a real loss.

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Obituary for Creed F. Christian.

Source: Tarkio Avalanche 11 Dec 1942.

Creed F. Fulton, a resident of Newman Grove, Neb., died Saturday, December 5. He was 83 years old and had formerly lived in Tarkio.

Funeral services were conducted yesterday by the Rev. T. Grimmett at the Tucker funeral home in Westboro.

A son of James and Mary Christian, he was born September 20, 1859 south of Rock Port. He was one of a family of six children. At the age of three years, he moved with his parents to Tarkio, where he lived until a young man. In 1855, he was married to Mary Caroline Clark.

Mr. and Mrs. Christian moved from Tarkio to Newman Grove, Nebraska in 1919. Mr. Christian remained there with the exception of a short time with his daughters until his death. Mrs. Christian died October 14, 1939. When a young man, he became a member of the First Baptist Church of Tarkio.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Charles Custard of Pueblo, Colorado and Mrs. Glenn Scott of Tarkio; a brother, J. E. Christian of Pine River, Minnesota; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A son, Lee R. Christian, died four years ago.

Burial was in Center Grove Cemetary. Pallbearers were: Ferrell McNaughton, Frank Currie, Elmer Ross, Charles Hurst, Robert Currie, and Clayton Scott.

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Obituary for Margaret Christian.

Source: Tarkio Avalanche. 7 Nov. 1941. p.1, col.5.

Funeral services will be conducted for Miss Margaret Christian, 80, this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Federated Church by Dr. J. A. Thompson and the Rev. John Currie. Miss Christian died Tuesday evening at the Sisters' Hospital in St. Joseph after a lingering illness.

Margaret May Christian, oldest daughter of James and Mary Ann Christian, pioneer settlers in Atchison County, was born on the home farm northwest of Tarkio, September 4, 1861. She attended school at Rock Port after completing the course offered in the rural school near home. She united with the Presbyterian Church in Tarkio at an early age and remained in its membership all her life.

She spent all of her life in and near Tarkio. After the death of her mother, she lived with relatives and friends, making a home for some of these and always making herself useful wherever she was.

There were six children in the Christian family, all of whom reached maturity. Columbus, Thomas and Sophia preceeded their sister in death. Creed of Tarkio and Jesse of Pine River, Minn. survive her. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Nellie Christian, lives with her daughter, Mrs. Kyle Peterson in Kahoka. A number of nephews and nieces living in various parts of the United States also survive.

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Obituary for Thomas Tate Christian.

Source: Tarkio Avalanche. 4 May 1923. p.1. col. 1-2.

Funeral services for T. T. Christian, until last summer a resident of this community, were held Tuesday afternoon, May 1st, the remains having arrived in Tarkio Monday morning.

Mr. Christian was born in Atchison County on October 29, 1863 and had lived all his life until last year, when he sold the old homestead four and one-half miles northwest of Tarkio and removed with his family to Monte Vista, Colorado, near which place he engaged again in farming and the raising of fine hogs. An attack of influenza last fall considerably weakened his physical condition, and a later attack of intestinal influenza resulted in his death after an illness of about a week.

He had an unusually wide acquaintance throughout Atchison County and an enviable number of friends to whom his unfailing good humor and jovial disposition typified the character of this man. Possessed of definite convictions on any subject in which he was interested and a willingness to express them on occasion, he was always a force for good in any worthwhile community project. He served as a member of the Council of Defense during the World War and gave much of his time in the interest of good roads, serving as Road Supervisor of his district for many years.

To the scores of Atchison County folks who were his friends, the news of his going was real cause for sadness, introducing as it did upon their rememberance of him as a vigorous, active personage in the life of the community during all the years of his residence here. The esteem and affection in which he was universally held was witnessed by the many floral tributes which banked the altar of the Church, draped the bier, and make beautiful the last resting place in the Home Cemetary. That he was held in the same esteem in the Colorado home was evidenced by the many flowers sent with the body by friends there and by the large audience at the short funeral service held there before bringing the remains to Tarkio.

It was typical of the man and in accordance with his wishes that the friends remain at the cemetary until the grave had been filled and the mound covered with evergreens and flowers for he had never been willing to leave those last rites to be performed for his own friends by strangers.

Following a short prayer service at the home of Mr. Christian's life long friend and neighbor, H. R. Prather, where the body was taken in its arrival here, the casket was removed to the Presbyterian Church where the funeral services were conducted by Dr. J. A. Thompson, assisted by Rev. C. W. Halsey. The church auditorium and the Sunday school rooms were filled by those seeking to do honor to the memory of one whom they had known and respected. The pallbearers, all friends and business associates, were J. E. Travis, E. N. Raines, F. S. Travis, H. R. Prather, James McCollister, and W. L. Salmon. A quartette composed of Mrs. B.O. Dobler, Mrs. C.E. Munn, Glenn Crosen, and Henry Hey sang, "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go" and "Thy Will Be Done". Mr. Hey sang, "The Lord is my Shepherd", an arrangement of the 23rd Psalm.

Thomas Tate Christian was born October 29th, 1863 in Atchison County. He died April 27th, 1923 near Monte Vista, Colorado. He was a student in Tarkio College during its first year, 1883-1884. He married Nellie A. Robertson of Tarkio on November 30th, 1892. Into the home came two children, Helen, now Mrs. Kyle Peterson of Unionville, Missouri and Thomas Ralph, who had been in the Colorado home with his parents. In addition to his wife and two children, Mr. Christian left behind two little grandsons, the children of his daughter, two brothers, C.F. Christian, of Newman's Grove, Nebraska and J.E. of Pine River, Minnesota and one sister, Margaret, in Tarkio.

While still young, Mr. Christian united with the First Presbyterian Church of Tarkio and continued in its active membership for thirty-five years.

It was the regret of Mr. Christian's life that he did not remain in college in accordance with his father's expressed desire to complete the course of studies. His daughter fulfilled her father's desire but the son was prevented as so many other young men by the part he was called upon by the World War.

Mr. Christian's life was in the home and with his neighbors. In his home, he was always distinguished for the love and kindness which he radiated. His children say they have no memory of an unkind work spoken in the home. His neighbors are here to indicate their appreciation of what he was to them. Little children were his dearest friends. A young girl who had known him as Uncle Tom from babyhood said when she heard of his death, "I have lost the best friend I ever had."

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Obituary for Jesse Christian

Source: Tarkio Avalanche. 19 Sept 1958.

Graveside services for Jesse Christian, 86 year old former Tarkio resident who has been in St. Joseph the past 15 years were conducted here at Home Cemetary on Monday afternoon. He died Saturday in a St. Joseph nursing home.

The officiating minister was the Rev. Robert Stahmer, United Presbyterian Church, pastor.

Born near Tarkio, Mr. Christian was the son of James Christian and Mary Ann Tate Christian, youngest in a family of five children. His date of birth was 4 July 1872.

He engaged in farming and later moved to Minnesota where he was a partner in a hardware business with a nephew. He never married.

In addition to his parents, there brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. There are no immediate survivors. Will Tate, of Tarkio, is a cousin of Mr. Christian.


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