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Christopher C. Stribling, a prominent business man of Clifton, Tenn., and a native of Lawrence County, was born November 24, 1844, son of Andrew H. and Sarah E. (Elton) Stribling, natives of the Palmetto and Keystone States, respectively. The father was born in 1816, and came to Tennessee with his father, John Stribling, in 1834. John, who was an own cousin of Commodore Cornelius K. Stribling, surveyed Lawrence County, and in 1851 removed to Wayne County, where he died in 1882, being the oldest citizen of the county and the oldest Mason in the United States. Andrew H. Stribling married and raised his family in Lawrence County. He was twice married, his second wife being Rachel Clayton. Three children were born to each marriage. At the close of the war he removed to Wayne County, where he farmed, and died in 1884. Christopher C. resided with his parents on a farm and secured a fair English education. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Federal Army and served first with Company F, Twelfth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He, with his regiment, was captured at Shiloh, and after a two months’ imprisonment, was exchanged and discharged in August, 1862. He re-enlisted soon after in Company A, Second Tennessee Mounted Infantry, and served as second lieutenant of his company a part of two years. In 1864 he joined Company E, Eighth Tennessee Mounted Infantry, having helped raise the company, and served as regimental and post quartermaster until the close of the war. He located in Wayne County, and acted as deputy sheriff two years, under Maj. Dickerson. He was elected county court clerk, and after serving part of a four years’ term, resigned, on account of the ill health of his family, and later engaged in the drug and mercantile business, continuing at Waynesboro until 1875. In 1874 he established the Wayne Citizen, which he conducted successfully until the latter part of 1875, when he moved to Clifton and successfully conducted the same until 1885. In January, 1886, he began keeping drugs and general merchandise, in partnership with T. S. Hassell, and has since continued. He is and always has been a stanch Republican in politics. He is a Mason, Royal Arch degree, and a member of the K. of H. and K. & L. of H. In 1866 Mr. Stribling married Emma L Cypert, who died in 1875. In 1877 he married his present wife, Amelia A. Waites. They have three children: Thomas H., Monetta L. and Pattie S. Just after the war Mr. Stribling, in company with Col. Owen Hane, was engaged in prosecuting claims against the United States, being under the celebrated John O’Neal, who afterward became famous as commander of the Irish-American Fenians.