When Sophia Christman was born on 5 June 1792, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Rev. Johann Jacob Christman, was 47 and her mother, Maria Barbara Summers, was 41. She married Amos Gray on 14 March 1811, in Clearcreek Township, Warren, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Springcreek Township, Miami, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Piqua, Miami, Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 21 April 1881, at the age of 88, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Piqua, Miami, Ohio, United States.
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In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow ""rock"" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the ""rock"" was a gold nugget.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
Americanized form of German Christmann . Compare Chrestman .
English: occupational name meaning ‘servant of someone named Christ’, a pet form of Christian , Christine , or Christopher , + man.
English: from a Middle English pet form of the personal names Christopher or Christian + the hypocoristic suffix -man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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