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Christian Y Wyant
CHRISTIAN YERTY WYANT, late of Washington township, was one of the
successful farmer citizens of that section of Armstrong county in his day. He
was born in that township Oct. 19, 1834, son of Adam and Sarah (Yerty) Wyant.Martin Wyant, his grandfather, was from Bedford county, Pa. He and his wife
Christina (Bokher) had the following children: Adam, Bartholomew, John,
Martin, Henry, Fred, Jacob, Catherine, Julia Ann, Susan, Christina and
Elizabeth.Adam Wyant, father of Christian Y. Wyant, was born in Westmoreland county,
Pa. He was twice married, his first union being with Sarah Yerty, by whom he
had seven children: Christian Yerty, born Oct. 19, 1834; Martin, born Feb. 29,
1836; Andrew, born in 1839; Archibald, born in 1843; Elizabeth, born in 1845;
and Rachel and George, who died in infancy. The only survivor of this family
is Elizabeth, who married Henry Frick. For his second wife Adam Wyant married,
on March 25, 1845, Sophia Bowser, who was born May 29, 1828 in Franklin
township, Armstrong county, and still lives on the old farm in Washington
township. Ten children were born to this marriage, their names and dates of
birth being as follows: Mary, March 2, 1848; Delilah, Sept. 23, 1849; Eli,
Aug. 9, 1851; Teney, April 13, 1853; Benjamin W., Sept. 4, 1855; Emma, Feb. 4,
1858; Catherine, March 13, 1860; John B. F., Aug. 7, 1863; Margaret, Sept. 4,
1866; and Susanette, June 3, 1869.Christian Yerty Wyant was a lifelong farmer. Shortly after his marriage he
moved onto the tract of 160 acres in Washington township which has ever since
been the home of his family. At that time there was only one old log building
on the place, but he carried on the work of improvement steadily to the end of
his days, converting it into a valuable property, with handsome modern
buildings. He took a public-spirited interest in the welfare of the community,
and served his fellow citizens as township assessor and overseer of the poor.
In political sentiment he was a Republican. His church connection was with the
Brethren in Christ. Mr. Wyant died March 24, 1910, aged seventy-five years,
five months, five days.On Feb. 25, 1858, Mr. Wyant married Elizabeth John, who was born Oct. 6,
1834, a half mile from the farm where she now lives in Washington township,
daughter of Martin and Mary (Christman) John. Eight children were born to
their union: One died in infancy unnamed; Mary Ann, born March 20, 1860,
married C. Phillip and resides in Butler county, Pa.; Rosa Elvira, born April
1, 1862, married Cash Cramer, a resident of Oil City, Pa.; Sarah Margaret,
born Sept. 4, 1864, died June 4, 1865; Andrew Robert Elmer, born May 20, 1867,
is a minister and physician of Chicago; Adam Martin, born Sept. 15, 1869, is
an attorney, located at Greensburg, Pa.; William Whitfield, born May 20, 1873,
is a physician of Farrel, Pa.; Florence Bell, born July 15, 1876, a physician
of Sharon, Pa., married John Matta.Martin John, grandfather of Mrs. Christian Y. Wyant, was from Bedford
county, Pa. It was he who hewed the logs for and built the Jonas Bowser cabin
in Washington township still standing, and illustrated elsewhere in this work.
He and his wife Esther had children as follows: John, Peter, Martin,
Elizabeth, Esther, Catherine and Christina.Martin John, son of Martin and Esther, was well known in his section as
“Red Martin.” He was born in 1797 in Bedford county, and coming to
this region with his family passed the rest of his life engaged in farming in
what is now Washington township. He was prominent in politics as a member of
the Republican party, and took an active part in local affairs, serving as
president of the township board when his portion of Washington township was
included in Sugar Creek township. He belonged to the Brethren Church. His
death occurred in 1856, and his wife Mary (Christman), born in 1799, died in
September, 1871, aged seventy-four. They had children: Jacob, who died when
one year, nine months old; Christina, who died aged eighteen years; Esther;
Ann; Michel; Elizabeth, Mrs. Wyant; Catherine; and Christman.Source: Pages 668-669, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed September 1998 by James R Hindman for the Armstrong County Beers
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