Christina F <I>Scharnhorst</I> Jost

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Christina F Scharnhorst Jost

Birth
Hanover, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Death
23 Aug 1912 (aged 69)
Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas, USA
Plot
Section 14 Lot 78
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ANOTHER LEAVENWORTH PIONEER WOMAN GONE.

Mrs. Christine Jost Was Married at Kickapoo Fifty Years Ago--Funeral From Residence Sunday.

Another gap was made in the ranks of Leavenworth's pioneed women when Mrs. Catherine [sic: Christina] Jost, widow of Rudolph Jost, died at the family home at 840 Pottawatomie street early yesterday morning. Mrs. Jost had been an invalid for twelve years but she bore her suffering with fortitude and uncomplainingly. Funeral services will be held from the home at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon and burial will be in Mt. Muncie cemetery beside her life companion who died in 1906.

Mrs. Jost was born in Hanover, Germany, on June 11, 1846 [sic: 1843]. With her parents she came to this country and the family settled in Leavenworth county. In 1862 she was married to Rudolph Yost [sic: Jost] at Kickapoo and to the union were born eleven children, nine of whom survive. They are: H[enry] C[onrad] Jost of San Antonio, Texas, and John F., William R., Fred., and Rudolph of this city; also, Mrs. Henry [Clara] Hoins, Mrs. Daniel [Annie] Chapman, Mrs. George [Dorothea] Chapman and Mrs. James [Otillie] Forsyth of Leavenworth. Mrs. Jost is also survived by nineteen grandchildren and one great grandchild.

During her long residence here, Mrs. Jost made many friends, some of whom she had known since before her marriage fifty years ago. Throgh the years of her invalidism these friends came often to sit with her and from them she took much comfort.

From The Leavenworth Times, Saturday Morning, August 24, 1912.

ANOTHER LEAVENWORTH PIONEER WOMAN GONE.

Mrs. Christine Jost Was Married at Kickapoo Fifty Years Ago--Funeral From Residence Sunday.

Another gap was made in the ranks of Leavenworth's pioneed women when Mrs. Catherine [sic: Christina] Jost, widow of Rudolph Jost, died at the family home at 840 Pottawatomie street early yesterday morning. Mrs. Jost had been an invalid for twelve years but she bore her suffering with fortitude and uncomplainingly. Funeral services will be held from the home at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon and burial will be in Mt. Muncie cemetery beside her life companion who died in 1906.

Mrs. Jost was born in Hanover, Germany, on June 11, 1846 [sic: 1843]. With her parents she came to this country and the family settled in Leavenworth county. In 1862 she was married to Rudolph Yost [sic: Jost] at Kickapoo and to the union were born eleven children, nine of whom survive. They are: H[enry] C[onrad] Jost of San Antonio, Texas, and John F., William R., Fred., and Rudolph of this city; also, Mrs. Henry [Clara] Hoins, Mrs. Daniel [Annie] Chapman, Mrs. George [Dorothea] Chapman and Mrs. James [Otillie] Forsyth of Leavenworth. Mrs. Jost is also survived by nineteen grandchildren and one great grandchild.

During her long residence here, Mrs. Jost made many friends, some of whom she had known since before her marriage fifty years ago. Throgh the years of her invalidism these friends came often to sit with her and from them she took much comfort.

From The Leavenworth Times, Saturday Morning, August 24, 1912.

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