When Christoph Stoffel Reich was born on 6 August 1738, in Hohentwiel, Singen (Hohentwiel), Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, his father, Matthias Matthew Reich, was 25 and his mother, Anna Eva Schmidt, was 22. He married Veronica Lehmann in 1761, in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 14 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Wilferdingen, Durlach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany in 1738. He died in 1801, in Staunton, Augusta, Virginia, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Pennsylvania, United States.