Peter McQuie (1929)

JUNKIN, MCQUIE, MOORE

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 5/7/2006 at 09:32:02

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 14, 1929

Peter McQuie, son of Peter and Isabelle McQuie, entered this life July 16, 1857, and passed to the eternal life Thursday, January 31, 1929, at his home. Mr. McQuie was born in the midst of unusual surrounding, upon the Atlantic ocean, while his parents were in transit from the homeland, Scotland, to the new home they were looking forward to in America.

The family located in Knox county, Illinois, where they lived for fourteen years, moving from there to Penn township, Madison county, in 1871, to their present homestead, which has been the McQuie home, noted for its hospitality for 58 years.

Peter acquired a public school education and then directed his efforts in the interests of agriculture and stock raising. He has been more than usually successful. A quiet unassuming industrious man, yet he never was too busy to respond to a call for help for the needy.

The deceased clung to the church of his father's, the Presbyterian faith, but regularly gave to the support of the churches in the community in which he lived, thus expressing an interest in every effort toward advancing the Kingdom of Christ.

Mr. McQuie had been in failing health for a number of years, but by the exercise of almost superhuman determination, he kept at his post of duty, diligent in business through the years.

He leaves his sisters, Maggie and Jennie, who have been his constant companions through the years; a sister, Mrs. George Junkin, of Dexter; two brothers, Alexander, of Earlham, and Will, of Colorado. His father and mother and youngest sister, Mrs. Belle Moore, having preceded him in death. A group of nieces, nephews, and 18 grandnieces and nephews are also left to mourn the loss of a splendid friend.

The Rev. F. Clare McCallon, pastor of the Winterset Church of Christ, conducted the funeral services at 2 o'clock, Saturday, February 2, at the Early Chapel church, and burial was in the Penn Center cemetery.

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