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CHRISTOPHER MOSS
[Welland Tribune 27 August 1897]
We announce today the death of our aged friend, Christopher Moss, on the 20th, inst., in his 87th year at his residence, Niagara Falls South. Born Dec.22nd, 1810, in Hanley, Staffordshire, Eng., he began business life in youth, and was successful in early manhood, wherever he ventured. Like his elder brother, he was skilled in the art of engraving, but after seven years he preferred the more active energies of commercial business. His brother was a man of successful enterprise in finest engravings, and was the chief promoter of the monthly magazine of fashions, called Demorest’s which had a wide circulation in London, Paris and New York. Christopher Moss, having married Elizabeth Booth, in 1830 established himself as a grocer for eleven years in Manchester. It was then that he witnessed the opening of the first railway between Manchester and Birmingham. He was a near kinsman of its great engineer-Stephenson. On Feb. 4th 1841, he left Liverpool and on March 9 reached New York, but staid there only a few months, preferring to proceed to Canada, early in June. He appreciated the prospects of the new counties of Lincoln and Welland, and though the clearing of bush land was a toilsome occupation, yet, with strong muscle and nerve, he applied himself vigorously to be a successful farmer in the Township of Pelham. Afterwards, in Wainfleet and Thorold townships he owned good farms. He was a man of great strength, above the average of men and very industrious and wise in his plans. In 1857, owing to accidents, he became disabled and for forty years was obliged to retire from the country and live a quiet life in town. This long quiet was contrary to his nature and was no doubt a discourse of disquiet, but he contended with himself on this score and made himself useful in the parish of All Saints’ church, and for 25 years was a delegate to the synod of the diocese. He was a good correspondent and never failed to remember his relatives and near connections in old England. About twenty years ago, Mr. Moss was married to his second wife, Sarah Ann Goering, daughter of Hamilton Goering of Homer, near St. Catharines and continued to reside at “The Falls,” Drummondville, now Niagara Falls Village. He has lived a very quiet and peaceful life. During the last four years increasing infirmities compelled him to depend solely upon the aid of his wife, who attended him to the last hour with devotion and tenderness. His fine manly figure will be missed from the village in which he has lived so long. His remains were taken on Monday, 23rd inst., to All Saints’ Church and burial ground at 1.30 p.m., attended by several relatives and many friends, the Rev. Canon Bull and Rev. G.B. Bull officiating. Brothers-in-law and nephews were pall-bearers.
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