David Jackson AMES

AMES, ROLFE, RAMSEY, RAMSAY, SAYLES, PULLEN, VAN EVERA, ROLFE, ADAMS, GIBSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:47

1848 --- 10 February 1912

David J. Ames, aged 63 years, died Saturday, Feb. 10, 1912, at the home of his daughter at Belmond, Iowa of pernicious anemia from which he has suffered for over nine years.

He was born in Auburn, Ind. June 19, 1848, and in 1856 came to Austin township with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Ames who pre-empted the eighty on which the Enterprise schoolhouse now stands. David grew up there and March 20, 1870, he was married to Virginia C. Rolfe, daughter of Moses Rolfe also an old settler in the immediate neighborhood.

Mr. and Mrs. Ames lived on the farm for a few years and in 1875 moved to Austin where he went to work in Wright's iron foundry on the east side. Later he bought out the business. Mr. Ames was quite an inventor and patented a feed mill and other machines. In 1884 he moved to Owatonna for better manufacturing facilities and lived there 18 years, moving to Minneapolis in 1902. The family lived there until the summer of 1910 when they returned to Austin. Last spring he built a house near the Enterprise school house and last November they went to Belmond, Iowa, to spend the winter with his daughter, Mrs. W. C. Ramsey.

Mr. Ames was for many years a member of the Universalist church. He was an enterprising upright citizen and was respected by all. He was formerly a member of the Austin city council a, a member of the Austin Board of Education, and was one of the prominent workers in the Universalist church here. He was a Master Mason.

Funeral services were held at the C. B. Sayles home near Enterprise school house near Varco Monday afternoon, Rev. J. M. Darnell,pastor of the Universalist church in Owatonna officiating. interment in Varco cemetery.

Among those from away attending the funeral were Harry Rolfe and Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Adams of Owatonna, and Mrs. T. F. Gibson of Minneapolis. The widow and five children survive: Mrs. C. B. Sayles, Miss Minnie Ames of Austin; Mrs. W. C. Ramsay, Belmond, Iowa; Mrs. Stanley C. Pullen, Austin; Mrs. C. G. M. Van Evera, Portland, Oreg. There are twelve grandchildren. Three brothers of deceased survive: Geo. H. Ames of South Bellingham, Wash.; Jap Ames [Ezra Jasper] of Colville, Wash.; Chas. F. Ames of Hermiston, Oreg.

Mower County Transcript --- Minnesota
February 14, 1912

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[tombstone: date of birth is February 10, 1848;
obituary states June 19, 1848; 1900 census states June 1847;]