This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#205056) George M. Christie <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=205056> AUTHOR: volunteer DATE: 10/5/2008 at 22:15:40 Surnames: CHRISTIE,ONG,MYERS mincher, Source: Wapello Tribune, Friday, March 18, 1910 Page 1 E. F. Christie came over from Brighton Wednesday night to attend the funeral of his uncle, Geo. Christie. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Christie came down from Cedar Rapids the first of the week, called here by the illness and death of the former's brother, G. M. Christie. George M. Christie passed away last Wednesday morning at an early hour after an illness of a little over a month with dropsy of the lungs. Deceased was born in this city August 20, 1843. His parents were Henry and Sarah Christie, who came from Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1843, and this son, the fourth child of the family, was born but a few weeks after their arrival. The family consisted of eleven children, five brothers and six sisters, five of whom are living. They are: Mrs. F. M. Ong, Mrs. Emma Mincher and Henry Christie, of Wapello, Mrs. Sarah Myers and Ed. L. Christie, of Cedar Rapids. Until he was twenty years of age, deceased stayed at horne with his parents. At that age he entered the employ of the C. B. and Q. railway, afterwards becoming one of their trusted passen-ger engineers, and had the distinction of running the first railway engine over the new bridge across the Mississippi river at Burlington. Closing his work on the railroad in 1871, he returned to Wapello and resided with his parents until their death, the father dying in 1874 and the mother in 1879. He never having married and the old home broken up, he made his home with his brother, Henry until 1887, when he took up his home with his sister, Mrs. Mincher until his death. In employment in the years since a painter, doing the greater portion vicinity. Of a retiring disposition, so generous hearted that designing trespass upon his good nature. he quit railroading, he of his work in Wapello he was kind, unselfish companionship could The funeral services were held from the home yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. J. E. Newsom, with interment in the Wapello cemetery.