Christian, Thomas N.

CHRISTIAN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/12/2008 at 13:45:48

Thomas N. Christian

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.255, Waveland Twp.)
Thomas N. Christian, farmer, P. O. Griswold, Cass County, was born in Indiana February 2, 1836, son of Lewis and Levina (Frazier) Christian; he, born in Tennessee in 1811, is a farmer by occupation; she, born in Tennessee in 1812, is the mother of ten children, two of whom are dead. Mr. Christian came to Missouri with his parents in 1849, received a common-school education, and afterward taught. In August, 1862, he elisted in Comapny F, Thirty-fifth Missouri Infantry, and was mustered out at St. Louis in 1863. After returning from the army, Mr. Christian came to Cass County, Iowa, in 1866, and engaged in teaming till 1867,when he moved to Pottawattamie County and rented land. In 1869, he bought 124 acres at $5 an acre. he now has 244 acres, valued at $30 an acre. He has a fine young orchard of 100 trees, and small fruits, besides twenty acres of grove. He raises considerable stock, now having forty head of cattle and fifty hogs. Mr. Christian was married, in Missouri, May 23, 1861, to Rebecca Cranor, born in Indiana November 24, 1841, daughter of Joshua and Deborah (Potter) Cranor, natives of New Jersey; her mother died in July, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Christian have had ten children - Weltha, Ida, Newton, Alner, Lewis, Manlove B., Melcina, Belle, Alice and Flora; the last two died in Missouri; the rest of the children were born in Iowa. Mr. Christian has held some township offices; he belongs to the Masonic fraternity; is a Baptist in religion, and a Republican in politics.