Tell her she must come and meet me in
that Eden, land of light;
Tell her I'll be waiting for her where
there is no death no night.
Tell her that I called her darling, blessed
her with my dying breath.
Come and kiss me for my Lizzie; tell her
love outliveih death.
SKKTCIl OK COLON EL CUKISTIE.
Daniel Harvey Christie was born in
Frederick county, Va., in March, 1833.
His father was Robert W. Christie,
who with his family, when his son was
quite young, settled in Loudon county,
Va. At the age of sixteen years Daniel
Harvey found employment as a teacher
at Heathsville, Northampton county,
Va., and there met Rev. Robert JJ.
Thompson, a minister of the Methodist
I'rotestant church, who afterwards in
duced him to settle in Nansemond
county. Reiug an Asaph, with a
charming voice that swayed the multi
tudes who heard him sing, lie was soou
led to organize and instruct classes in
vocal music in the latter county. While
thus cugaged lie met Miss Lizzie A.
Nortleet, ot Suffolk, Va., to whom,
having won her hand and heart, he was
marned 011 the 22d day of November,
1855. During the first two years suc
ceeding bis marriage his residence was
in Norfolk, Va., where he was engaged
in the tobacco and commission business.
From Norfolk he went with hisTaniily,
in 1858, to reside in Henderson, N.
C, and there conducted a military
school until I860, when he returned
to Suffolk for a brief period. Wheu
the tocisiu of war was sounded in 18(51
he was called by his North Carolina
friends to the position of major of the
Thirteenth North Carolina" Iniautry,
which was organized at Weldon, N.
