My Christian County ancestors were in MO pretty early-Jonathon RENO, my 5th great-grandpa was stabbed to death in Springfield in 1838. His daughter Mary "Polly Ann" Reno married Avenant HOLLINGSWORTH, who was an early Sheriff and Marshal in Springfield and Greene County. He also owned land in what would become Christian County. Their son Harbin married Elizabeth Minerva REESE (her father James Harvey REESE came to what would become Christian County, and died in Nixa in 1863) and Harbin and Elizabeth's son James Alva Hollingsworth married Missouri Tennessee WEST in Nixa in 1880. Missouri's grandpa Ananias WEST owned land in what would become Christian County near Nixa, and died there in 1878. The WEST family married into many of the other Christian County names, including JOHNSON, MOBLEY, KELTNER, and SAMUEL. I am always looking for kin to share info with! My gg-grandma Missouri Tennessee West Hollingsworth left Christian County after she married in 1880, but until her death in 1927 in Independence KS called Nixa Mo HOME. Meg Gentry Bookout in CA