Christian Wurster Jr.

     Christian Wurster Jr. was born on 13 May 1848 possibly in Untermusbach, Oberamt Freudenstadt, Schwarzwaldkreis, Württemberg. He was the son of Christian Wurster and Eva Rosina Leix. Christian Wurster Jr. married, at age 25, Martha Marquardt, age 23, daughter of Frederick Marquardt and Rosanna Kiess, on Monday, 25 August 1873. Christian Wurster Jr. died on 5 April 1918 at Dawson, Richardson County, Nebraska, at age 69 years, 10 months and 23 days. He was buried in the Heim Cemetery, located in Dawson, Richardson County, Nebraska.
     He and Martha Marquardt with their family in tow, went to Nebraska in September of 1880. Of all the Wurster families only Chris and Martha moved to Nebraska. Chris decided that would be the time to change his name, so he and his children all spell the name as Wuster instead of Wurster, removing the middle "R." His parents and all the brothers and sisters were known as the family of giants. The next generation surrendered that claim; some of them are even a little under-sized. Chris weighed 235 pounds while Martha must have never weighed over ninety pounds. One morning as she did her kitchen she stopped long enough to give birth to David right there in the kitchen.