Christian Lichtenwalter was born March 31, 1835 and was baptized on May 3, 1835 at St. Jacob Evangelical Lutheran Church, Massillion (sic), Ohio. He was the son of Solomon & Catharina Lichtenwalter. (Source: St. Jacob Evangelical Lutheran Church, Massillion (sic), OH)
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Christian Lichtenwalter and Sarah Jane Gardner were married September 20, 1859 at Will County, Illinois. (Source: Illinois Marriage Index)
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The Register-Champion (Hebron, NE), Thursday, November 8, 1928; pg. 1

Passing of a Pioneer

Christian Lichtenwalter died at his home in Hebron, Nebraska on Friday evening, November 2, 1928 at the age of 93 years, 7 months, and 1 day. He was born near Canton, Ohio on March 31, 1835. He spent his early childhood and youth on his father's farm near that city. In early manhood he taught school near Canton. He later went to Wills County, Illinois where he again engaged in teaching school. In the early part of 1859 he, in company with several other young men, started for Pike's Peak driving a team of oxen. They came throgh (sic) what is now Omaha, but after proceeding several hundred miles west from Omaha they met so many people returning from the West that they became discouraged and turned back. Upon arriving in Omaha they loaded their outfit on a boat and went down the Missouri river (sic) as far as Fort Leavensworth (sic), Kansas where they sold their outfit and went back to their homes in Illinois. He then engaged in farming.

In the latter part of 1859, he was united in marriage with Sarah Jane Gardner of Easton, Ohio. To them were given six children all of whom are living. On account of ill health in 1870 he with his family moved from Illinois to Missouri, locatino (sic) on a farm north of Hebron. He resided upon this farm until the year 1909 when he retired from the activities of farm life and came, with his daughter, Ella, to Hebron where he has made his home until his death.

During the last few years of his life, while the shadows of failing vision grew deeper and deeper about him, his sense of hearing had lost its acuteness, and his limbs had grown feeble with long march of the years; he has been most faithfully and loving cared for and ministered to by his deaughter.

His wife having preceeded (sic) him in death on April 5, 1907; of his immediate family he leaves to mourn his taking from them by death his six children; Mrs. J.P. Eggelston (sic) of Campaign (sic), Illinois; Viola C. of Boulder, Colorado; John S. of Hubbell, Nebraska; Ella E. of Hebron, Nebraska; Mrs. Rayburn Edwards of Portland, Oregon; and Willis E. of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with these a large company of friends and neighbors, by whom he was held in high esteem, unite their sorrow.

He had united with the Presbyterian Church of Hebron, Nebraska a number of years ago. He was a faithful attendant at the services of his church until failing health would no longer permit.

The funeral services were conducted from the Presbyterian Church of Hebron, Nebraska at 2:00 o'clock on Monday afternoon, November 5, 1928 by his pastor, The Rev. George E. Chapman, assisted by The Rev. E.E. Carter pastor of the local Methodist Church. The interment was held in the Chester Cemetery, at Chester, Nebraska. His body resting by the side of his wife, who, at the time of his death, had journed (sic) with him upon life's way for nearly half a century.