Amos Fife

FIFE, SMITH

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/1/2004 at 09:49:05

Amos Fife, South twp., farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. Winterset; born in Columbiana county, Ohio, December 5, 1826; he lived there until he was about eighteen years of age, he then enlisted in the Mexican war; enlisted at Chillicothe and served eleven months; he came to this county in December, 1849; in 1852 he married Lucy A. Smith, a native of Scott county, Illinois; she was raised in Iowa; has a family of three sons and seven daughters: George, Sarah E., Rebecca, Alice, Ella, Albert, Cora, Lodena H., Cassius C. and Iosa; owns a farm of 242 acres.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 575