Hamilton, Amos (1869-1939)

HAMILTON, SORENSON, SORENSEN, GROVIER, MARSHALL

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 4/18/2017 at 12:13:17

Stanhope Observer, Stanhope, Iowa, Thursday, February 2, 1939

Amos Hamilton Is Called By Death

Death came to Amos Hamilton, 69, at the University hospital at Iowa City on Thursday evening. Death was due to uremic poisoning following an operation.

Funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. Kaldenberg at Ames on Sunday morning, and on Sunday afternoon at the Stanhope M.E. church with Rev. Kaldenberg in charge of the services and sermon by Rev. C.F. Schmidt. A male quartette furnished the music and old neighbors and friends were pallbearers. Interment was at Lawn Hill cemetery, only a short distance from the old Hamilton home where he spent most of his life.

The services were largely attended with friends from Boxholm, Gilbert, Boone and Ames and a host of Stanhope friends, members of old families of the community who with the Hamiltons by their toll transferred this section of the county from bogs, sloughs, and marshes to the present prosperous farm lands of Clear Lake township. It was an outpouring of friends and neighbors who knew Amos all his life, who knew that he was an honest upright man whose daily concern was to live the life of a Christian.

Amos Hamilton was born in Clear Lake township June 6, 1869 and lived here until 1929 when he disposed of his farm and moved to Boone. Later he lived at Gilbert, and two and a half years ago he moved to Ames. On August 16, 1893 he married Anna Christina Sorenson and to this union was born six children. Two died in infancy, and the wife died in 1913. The four surviving children are Della and Donald of Ames, Merle of Leon, Iowa, and Mingon Grovier, of Gilbert. There are four surviving grandchildren. After he raised his family he married Sina Marshall of Fort Dodge, who also survives him.

He was always active in church work wherever he lived. Deeply religious at all times and faithful to the cause of his Master, a large powerful man he made his influence felt for good and Christian living in all the places he lived.

[I've seen his wife's maiden name typed 'son' or 'sen' so I listed both]