Cambria County PA Archives Obituaries.....Criste, John  December 14, 1868
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The Cambria freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938: December 24, 1868
At his residence in Munster township, Cambria county, on Monday, the 14th inst., Mr.
John Criste, in the 86th year of his age. The deceased was born at McSherrystown,
Adams county, on the 17th July, 1783, and emigrated to Cambria county in the Spring
of 1802. He belonged in his old home to what was known as the Conewago congregation,
and was one of those who followed the "Pilgrim of the Alleghenies" to the Mountain.
He became a pious and useful member of Father Gallitzin's congregation, and was an
ardent admirer of that great and good man as long a he lived. Mr. Criste was the
father of sixteen children, fifty-eight grandchildren, and twenty-one great
grandchildren.  Eight of his immediate descendants attended his funeral, the oldest
and youngest of his children among them. His life was long and eventful, and he
lived and died a good citizen and good Christian. May he rest in peace.

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