Chrystabell

Birth Name: Chrysta Bell Zucht

Place of Birth: San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, U.S.

Date of Birth: April 20, 1978

Ethnicity: Austrian, English, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh, possibly Ashkenazi Jewish

Cheysta Zucht, professionally known as Chrystabell or Chrysta Bell, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She often collaborated with filmmaker David Lynch.

She was named after Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Christabel. Her family owns Countryside Memorial Park cemetery. Her mother was a singer. Her stepfather was a composer, producer, and engineer.

Chrystabell’s paternal grandfather was Arthur Darling Zucht II (the son of Dr. Adolph/Arthur Doliu Zucht and Bertha Stern). Chrystabell’s grandfather Arthur was born in Pine Bluff, Jefferson, Arkansas, to parents from Austria. Bertha was born in Bukovina, the daughter of Joseph Stern and Fannie Weber. The family may have had a Jewish heritage, though Bertha had a church funeral.

Chrystabell’s paternal grandmother was Katie Bell Lacey (the daughter of Louis Walter Lacey and Mary Lela Bell). Katie was born in Winters, Runnels, Texas. Louis was born in Kendall, Texas, the son of Louis Monroe Lacey, whose maternal grandfather was a minister; and of Mary Elizabeth McGuire. Chrystabell’s great-grandmother Mary was born in New Mexico, the daughter of Greenberry Bateman Bell and Julia E. Hogan, whose father was Irish.

Chrystabell’s maternal grandfather was named John Marion Andrew.

Chrystabell’s maternal grandmother was named Eunice Lanell Evans.

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