CHRISTY, Cornelia Everette
Source: Greencastle Star Democrat 20 March
1908 p 3
Fillmore – Mrs. Cornelia Everet Christie, wife of John Christie, died Sunday morning at 7 o’clock at the age of 86 years. Funeral will occur at family residence at 1 o’clock Tuesday, services conducted by Rev. WH Brown. Remains will be laid at rest in Fillmore Cemetery. She leaves to mourn her demise a loving husband, 3 sons and 6 daughters.
Source: Star & Democrat, March 27, 1908
Cornelia Everette Christy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawson D. Sims, was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, March 27, 1823, and departed this life March 15, 1908, being at the time of her death 85 years, 11 months and 15 days old. She was married to John B. Christy, March 19, 1840. To this union was born eleven children. The oldest, Sidney J. wife of James Raines, died in August 1868, Squire W. died in 1899. The remaining children are James L., Mrs. Susan Gibbons, Mrs. Eliza E. Jackson, Mrs. Mary A. Siddons, Mrs. Maggie Siddons, Mrs. Louisa Gorham, Mrs. Cornelia E. Vice, John H. and Columbus Christy. and twenty-three grandchildren are left to mourn her death, besides other relatives and friends.
Her sickness of about nine weeks was borne with great patience, she often sang and talked to her loved ones expressing her willingness to go to a better home and be at rest asking her children to meet her in heaven where parting is unknown.
She united with the Christian Church many years ago and had always led a Christian life.
A precious one from us is gone,
A voice we loved is stilled.
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
God in his mercy hath recalled,
The bloom the life has given,
And although the body molders here,
The soul is safe in heaven.
The funeral services were conducted at the house by Elder Brown, burial at Fillmore Cemetery.
Submitted by Sherry Mason