This is the interment card on file in the Evergreen Memorial Cemetery office in Bloomington, Illinois.
There have been a number of questions about Philip. The interment card is obviously incorrect because Philip shows up in the 1870 Census. His sister, Elsie, was taking care of his two children in Wenona, Illinois at that time. There is also a marriage in Bloomington that same year following his wifes death. On October 11, 1870, a Philip A Crist was married to Mary A. Fowler. It is unknown when he died but no record of Philip or his two children have been found in the 1880 census in Illinois.
Some new information has been recently found in an autograph book of Hattie (Crist) Hrdlicka. There is an entry in 1883 from Philip and has Washington D.C. by it. There is a signature in 1889 by his son, Eugene, and he was in Washington D.C. at that time.
Hattie Crist
This is the interment card on file in the Evergreen Memorial Cemetery office in Bloomington, Illinois.
Mrs. Hattie Crist, wife of Rev,. P. A. Crist; died at Wenona, IL., Dec 12,1869. Interred at Bloomington.
-Central Illinois Obit Vol 1 (1848-1870).
