Amos Fife (1908)

FIFE, SMITH, VANATTA, ATKINS, DURHAM, SNIDER, MOORE

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 3/7/2014 at 07:22:29

Winterset Madisonian
April 30, 1908
Page 1

Another Old Veteran Gone

Uncle Amos Fife, who has been ill for some time passed away early Tuesday morning at his home in St. Charles, in his 82d year. Mr. Fife was born Dec. 5, 1826, in Columbiana county, Ohio. He lived there until he enlisted in the Mexican war, servicing eleven months.

In 1849 he came to Iowa and to Madison county in December 1849 and has lived in South township continuously.

In 1852 he was married to Lucy A. Smith, to whom were born ten children, three boys and seven girls. There are living at present and surviving him his wife and eight children as follows: Miss Sarah Fife, Mrs. Alice Vanatta, Mrs. Ella Atkins, Mrs. Cora Durham, Albert Fife, Mrs. Jennie Snider, Cassius C. Fife, and Mrs. Artie Moore.

Mr. Fife has always been an exemplary citizen and in one of the sturdy pioneers who helped to make this country what it is today. With his death and that of Lewis Crawford a short time ago, it leaves J. T. Rhyno the only surviving Mexican war veteran in Madison county.

The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon and the body laid to rest in the St. Charles cemetery.

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