Christena M (Huffman) (Newell) Reddick
Sep 12, 1874 - Oct 9, 1901
Submitted by: Barb Winterfield

Christena M Huffman was born on 12 Sep 1874 in Fulton County, Indiana to George Washington Huffman and Sarah Jane (Goltry) Huffman.  She was the fifth of six children.   In May of 1876 the family moved to Sumner County, Kansas with several of her father’s siblings.   There they met up with her widowed grandmother, Sarah (Barnes) Huffman, and two more uncles who had arrived a year earlier.  

Her mother died after giving birth to a son who did not survive when Christena was 4.  Her Grandmother Huffman moved into the home to help care for the children.   

In March of 1882 her father married widow Catherine Jane (Vian) Stetler.   They would have two children together before getting divorced sometime after 1885. 

In 1886 the family moved to Lane County, Kansas.   

Christena married Charles H “Tiny” Newell in 1892 and they had a daughter, Charlotte “Lottie”.  The couple was divorced in June of 1899.  Christena and her daughter then moved to nearby Grigsby, Scott, Kansas with her brother, James Huffman.  

Christena worked at the “Commercial Hotel” in Dighton, Lane, Kansas.  She gave birth to a set of twin boys (names unknown) on 17 Jan 1901 in Scott City, Scott, Kansas.  She moved into a home on her father’s property in Grigsby in Jun 1901 but soon after moved to Paris, Kingfisher, Oklahoma.

On 22 Sep 1901 she married William M. Reddick of Dover, Oklahoma.   Mrs. Florence Reddick and her grandmother, Sarah Huffman, were witnesses.  Sarah was living in Hennessey, Kingfisher, Oklahoma with her son John.    

Two weeks later, one of the twin boys became ill and died, about 7 Oct 1901.  She too was ill and after two or three days, a doctor was called.  The doctor administered some medicine which immediately stopped her heart.  She died at five o’clock in the morning on 9 Oct 1901 at the age of 27.  Her daughter, Charlotte, was 8 at the time.  Since her obituary does not mention the other twin, he must have died previously, either in Kansas or Oklahoma.