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 1764 - 1847 (83 years)
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| Name |
Richard Christmas |
| Birth |
4 Jan 1764 |
Warren (formerly Bute) County, North Carolina  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
22 Sep 1847 |
Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia |
| Person ID |
I102 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
15 May 2007 |
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| Notes |
- Richard Christmas and Mary Robertson had to wait to get married until after the Revolutionary War. There was a saying "Dicky Christmas and Robertson finally got married". In 1792 Christmas moved to the Edgefield District, South Carolina where he applied for a received a pension. He won lottery land in Georgia, and on Dec. 4, 1834 he was living in Muscogee County, Georgia. Tradition indicates that the Christms and Huff families moved together from NC through SC to Georgia as inseparable families and friends, both settling in Muscogee County. Two of the Christmas daughters married Huff sons. Richard Christmas died in 1847 at the age of 86. His wife, Mary, died the previous year at age 78. Both are buried in the family cemetery said to be in the garden of their home. The house was located NE of the cemetery across County Line road.
- Children of the second marriage were Nathaniel Green, Martha, Temperance, and Mary. Descendants are living in Columbus, Atlanta, Texas and elsewhere.
- In 1840 he was one of two Revolutionary pensioners living in Muscogee County, Georgia.
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