Family/Spouse: Banister, N.N.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Between 1 Jun 1791 and 23 Jul 1800, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA
• Residence: 30 Aug 1800, Nelson, Kentucky, USA
• Residence: 1805, St Charles, Missouri, USA

Notes:

Sometimes listed as Christian and other times as Christopher on various documents.

There is no evidence or documentation that Christopher was born in 1750, and no evidence that I can find of his wife.

Although there are earlier and later tax lists for Bourbon County, Kentucky; Christopher only appears on the 1791 - 1800 tax lists.

On the 1791 - 1793 tax lists he appears with Jesse Yarnall in the same county lists; indicating they lived close to each other within Bourbon County, Ky.

Jesse Yarnall appears on the 1789 - 1793 tax lists for Bourbon County, Kentucky; indicating that he was in Bourbon County before Christopher Wolf.

It is my belief that sometime after Jul 1800, Christopher decided to take advantage of Spanish land grants to settle the vast Louisiana Territory. On on 04 Dec 1805 his Spanish land grant in St. Charles County had been surveyed and on 10 Jan 1806 it was approved. While Christopher could have purchased the Spanish land grant of another early pioneer; it would have been less expensive to purchase directly from the Spanish. He is also listed on the St Charles Tax list of 1805 for Section 3 and listed as a family of seven with 2 horses and 2 cattle.

Christopher's will was made on 04 Mar 1825 and proved to the court on 16 Jul 1825; indicating he died between those dates. Additionally on 04 Mar 1825 his wife Eva was alive as she is mentioned in his wife's will.

The following is taken verbatim from the Cotton and Tarbell Genealogy. The research is sound but is missing information from the Missouri online archives.
A history of Missouri : from the earliest explorations and settlements until the admission of the state into the Union
Vol II. Chapter XIII. page 99 St. Charles--Boundaries of district vaguely defined...

On the Auhaha or Salt river, Maturin Bouvet, a resident of St. Charles in 1792, had a saline, at a place called " Le Bastile, " but the Saukee Indians took away all his effects, kettles, etc., and three valuable mares. He remained on his place alone one winter, and while absent the Indians again destroyed his furnace, dwelling-house and ware-house, which latter was about thirty-five feet in length; he himself sometime later on his return was burned to death by the Indians.^' He also had a grant at Bay de Charles, on the Mississippi, for depositing his salt for shipment.^" This Bouvet came from the Dardenne in 1801 on a grant made to Don Carlos Tayon, and which included a salt spring; John McConnell (1801); Andrew Walker (1801); Michael Reybott (or Rybolt) (1802), on this stream and the Missouri; John Rouke (or Rooks) (1802) also spelled Rouke; Warner Gilbert (1803); Noel Herbert (1803); Dame Louise Langevin dit Baillette (1803), wife of Etienne Bernard, formerly widow of Joseph Violette; John Alexander Michau (1803); George Price (1803), a witness and probably a resident; Christian Dennis; Charles Denney (or Dennys) a German, and herb doctor, lived on this creek and had a water-mill, afterward had a distillery ; Micajah Baldridge ; Peter Tisne ; CHRISTIAN dit CHRISTOPHER WOLF; Laurent Derocher; Etienne Pepin (1800) had a grant at a pond called "k Bequet" four or five miles northwest of Portage des Sioux; he was a Canadian and an old resident. On this stream St. Vrain, brother of DeLassus received a grant of 10,000 arpents ; St. Vrain died insolvent, sold his grant at twelve and one half cents an acre payable in goods, and goods were sold at such a high price that according to Tesson, John Mullanphy got the land for about two cents an acre. '' American State Papers, 2 Public Lands, p. 629. " Others who were on this stream were, Louis Boure (1799); Charles Main ville(i799); John Baptiste Jeffre(i8oo) ; Jean Baptiste Bouretteor Boure (1801) Dr. Antoine Saugrain had a claim for land here on which to erect a distillery and mill and establish a stock-farm.

A HISTORICAL RESUME Of ALL SAINTS PARISH, ST. PETERS, MO.
This Country Parish, whose origin and progress, according to statistics, will be given, lies in St. Charles Co., one of the most fruitful districts of the State of Missouri, on the Wabash Line, about 32 miles west of St. Louis.
The name Dardenne is arrived from the Dardenne family, early pioneers of the Mississippi Valley. Toussaint Dardenne was married at Ste.-Anne-du-Fort-Chartress, November 21, 1747. One of these Dardennes may have first camped and hunted on this creek and thus given it his name. One of the first pioneers on the Dardenne was Jean Baptiste Blandeau, 1796. His land came into the hands of John Mullanphy.
About 1800 the first settler, Francis Howell, established his home about ten miles from St. Charles, at Howell’s Prairie, on the Dardenne. Others attracted by the rich game and fertile soil soon followed. Among them French-Canadians and a few settlers from Virginia and Kentucky. Among them were Jean Genereux, Joseph Langlois, John Parquette, Joseph Boshaut, John Lewis, Perry Brown, Warren Cottle, Lorenzo Cottle in 1840 founded Cottleville; George Hufmann, Pennsylvania Dutch and his sons Peter and George; Louis Janetot, 1799; Thomas Johnson, and Irish Catholic, 1799; Charles Dennys, a German herb doctor; CHRISTIAN WOLF, Etienne Pepin, John Adam Smith, Milton Lewis, John McConnell and Arend Rutgers, who built a mill. Amidst the cares and struggles for living, the brave Canadians did not abandon their faith. Their first aim was to erect a house for the worship of their God.

Christian Wolf
LAND CERTIFICATE FOR MISSOURI BETWEEN 1808 AND 1812
06/11/1811 CERTIFICATE NUMBER 948
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Circuit Court Records
1811 A 8 30 United States Jimmerson, William Larceny Defendant allegedly took 50 pounds of flour belonging to Christian Wolf from mill of Warren Cottle; defendant also spelled "Jamison"

1814 -1816 Circuit Court Records
Year Group Box Folder Plaintiff Defendant Title Action
CaseSummary
1816 A 15 73 Lingo, James et al Account
Account for James Lingo, Henry Haverstick, Christopher Wolf, John Wolf, John Tate, George Huffmann and John Yarnel for services as militia guarding the jail
Source: Saint Charles County Historical Society

(Note: This Christopher may be the brother, and not the father, of John Wolf. George Huffmann and John Yarnel were brothers-in-law of John Wolf (BJC)
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1817 census Dardenne Tw. St Charles Co. Mo.
Christopher Wolf
Christopher Wolf Jr
Benj. Teter
George Hofman Jr.
George Hofman Sr.
Henry Haverstickall next door to one another
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1819 census Dardenne Twp. St Charles Co. Mo.
Christopher Wolf
Peter Hofman
George Hofman
George Hofman
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St. Charles Co., Missouri Will Book 1 1822-1833 Page 62
In the name of God amen. I Christopher Woolf of Dardenne Township in the County of St. Charles and state of Missouri being in a low and ill state of health but of perfect sound and disposing mind do hereby make and bequeath unto my son John Woolf all my stock of horses cattle and hogs of which I am possessed and also all right title benefit or profet that might arise or accrew from the stock he has heretofour driven away and disposed of with this condition that he the said John Woolf shall pay or cause to be paid or delivered to my daughter Eve Woolf a good horse and side saddle. I also hereby will and bequeath to my daughter Eve Woolf all my household furniture, bedding, wheels and loom and also the spun yarn cloth, flax and cottons. Provided all and every of the above name articles and things shall be and remain with my beloved wife Eve for and during her natural life for her own use and benefit. My two sons William and Christopher have each received their share and portion of my estate in lands and fitting out. My five other daughters to wit Susannah Yarnell, Mary Teters, Betsey Yarnell, Caty Huffman and Nancy Banister have all received their shares in their marriage fiting out. And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my son John Woolf to execute this my last will and testament and to pay all my just debts and demands due from me of right, signed and sealed in presence of us this fourth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Twenty Fiv
His
Test Christopher x Woolf
Evin Bruin Mark
John Hufman
Stephen Yarnall
State of Missouri } William G. Petters Judge
County of St Charles
Of the Probate court within and for the County aforesaid do certify that on this seventeenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and Twenty Five the within and foregoing will of Christopher Woolf deceased was presented to me at my office in the Town of St Charles by John Woolf.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and assigned the seal of my office at St Charles this twenty third day of April AD One Thousand weight hundred and twenty five and of the independence of the United States the forty ninth.

Wm G. Petters Judge PC
Recorded 23 April 1825
Wm G Petters JPC
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In Will Christopher Woolf names daughters Susannah Yarnell and Betsey Yarnell
Name: Christopher Woolf
Will Written: 4 Mar 1825
Recorded Date: 23 April 1825
Probate Date: 16 Jul 1825
Probate Place: St Charles, Missouri, USA
Item Description:
Wills, Letters of Administration and Letters Testamentary, Vol 1-2, 1822-1852, p 62

Christopher married Wolf, Mrs Eve. Eve was born in 1755; died after 1825 in Dardenne Township, St Charles, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]