Ferren, A. C. 1829 - 1908

FERREN, DAVIS, TIBBITTS, SHANNON

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Date: 8/24/2022 at 12:58:57

Source: Decorah Republican May 14, 1908, P3 C4

OBITUARY.
A. C. FERREN
On Saturday evening last, at 9:29 o’clock, after a long invalidism, A. C. Ferren passed away at his home on east Water street.
Mr. Ferren was born in Boston, Mass., on Dec. 17, 1829. He enlisted at the age of seventeen and served in the Mexican war afterward being connected with government naval service in suppressing the slave trade from the African coast. In the course of this service he visited the Gold Coast, and he could relate some very interesting incidents and experiences of those days. Subsequently he returned to Massachusetts and on Feb. 19, 1851, was married to Martha Ann Davis of Lowell. After two years’ residence at Nashua and Lawrence they decided to try their fortuned in the west and they moved to Menasha, Wis., where they engaged in passenger and freight traffic on the Fox and Wolf rivers, in a boat which Mr. Ferren built. Early in 1855 they returned east and remained about a year, when they once more came west, living successively at Madison, Wis., and McGregor, and finally in 1857 coming to Decorah, where the remainder of their lives were spent. One of the early business ventures in which Mr. Ferren engaged was the building of the old Highlandville mill, which proved very renumerative. When the call for troops came in the sixties Mr. Ferren responded by enlisting in Co. E, 38th Iowa, in which he served as lieutenant. After the war he engaged in various pursuits but of late years he was confined to his home most of the time by an affliction which affected his feet and ankles, preventing him from getting about to any extent.
On Aug. 31, 1903., Mrs. Ferren passed away. No children came to brighten their home but their place was filled until her marriage to Owen D. Tibbitts by their adopted daughter Fanny. Besides Mrs. Tibbitts Mr. Ferren is survived by one brother Myron J. Ferren of Washington, D. C., and one sister Mrs. Nellie Shannon of New York.
The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at four o’clock at Unity church. Rev. Margaret Olmstead officiating, and the remains were interred in the Phelps cemetery.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he died May 9, 1908.

Phelps Cemetery
 

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