Arthur Eugene Ammon, 1872-1924

AMMON, ROST, HARRIS

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 6/27/2009 at 15:08:47

DEATH CLAIMS TWO PIONEERS

E. AMMON FOR YEARS A RAILWAY MAN OF THIS CITY PASSED AWAY.

F. VANVELZER DEAD

Died Very Suddenly at His Home Last Tuesday Morning. He Had Not Been III.

A. K. Ammon, who has been almost a life long resident of this city passed away at his home on the West Side of the river early Tuesday morning. Mr. Ammon had been ill for a year and a half and his sickness has been one of pain and suffering. Had he not been a man of exceptional habits and a strong constitution he could never have bourn his Illness as long as he did. Several times during his illness the doctors had given up hopes of his surviving. Mr. Ammon was born on February the fourteenth, 1872, in Decorah. Iowa. When he was but fourteen years of age he moved to this city. His father passed away in 1908. When he was a mere lad of eighteen he commenced railroadlng and he remained In the service of the company for thirty-two rears. He was faithful to the road to the last and was still an engineer in thoughts up to the time of his death although he had not been in service for a year and one half. While In service Mr. Ammon had been in several bad wrecks. He had been injured twice and had many narrow escapes only to pass away after a long siege of Illness and suffering.

All through his last hours, in fact, all through his illness, he has been a patient sufferer. He has never complained and has always endeavored to make his illness as little burden as possible to others.

On August 18, 1894, he was united in marriage to Nora B. Rost and to this union there were born three children. Twins who are laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery and Mrs. P.H. Harris, who was with her father at the time of his death and who arrived only a few days before from her home In Portland, Oregon.

The funeral services will be held from the home on Friday at two thirty o'clock, the Rev. LaGrone, assisted by Rev. Chipperfield officiatimg. The services are to be in charge of the Masonic order and representatives of the Order of Locomotive Engineers and Mystic Workers and the remains will be laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery.

Source: Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa; July 9, 1924.