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John Mordecai Amos

25 Mar 1831 – 13 Jul 1906

Birth25 Mar 1831
Death13 Jul 1906
CemeteryDry Valley Cemetery
Custer County , Nebraska , USA
Added byTerry Wilmoth -Jepsen on 30 Jun 2015
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Son of John Street Amos of Harford County, Maryland and Elizabeth Rampley of Monkton, Baltimore County, Maryland. Husband of Catherine Thompson of New Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio; married on 21 March 1850 in Carroll County, Ohio. __________ The late John Mordecai Amos was one of the best known and highly respected citizens of Custer county. He was a public-spirited citizen interested in all pertaining to the general welfare and ready to do his share to promote the same. He was born in Pennsylvania, of English extraction, in March, 1831, third of the five children of John and Metsy Amos. He has two brothers living in Ohio, the only survivors of the family. When but a child Mr. Amos went with his brother, William, to Carroll county, Ohio, living on a farm and attending the district schools. He was there married, March 25, 1849, at the home of her parents, to Miss Catherine Thompson, daughter of Zechariah and Priscilla (Albaugh) Thompson, and a native of Ohio. Mr. Thompson was born in Maryland and was an early settler of Iowa, where he died. His wife was born in Ohio and died in Illinois. Mrs. Amos has three brothers in Iowa. In the late seventies Mr. and Mrs. Amos went to Fayette county, Iowa, where they carried on farming until the spring of 1883, when they came to Custer county and took a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres on section twenty-one, township eighteen, range eighteen, and a tree claim of like size adjoining. This was the home place for a number of years, but in 1905, Mr. Amos retired from active life and purchased ten acres in Wescott, where he lived until the time of his death, July 13, 1907. He is survived by his wife and seven children: Alfred, of Custer county; Lycurgus, Zachariah and William, all married and living in Custer county; Mrs. N. E. Armstrong, of Broken Bow; Mrs. Emma McCuen, of Custer county; Mrs. Laura Westerville, of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. Mr. Amos was always interested in the upbuilding of his locality and his wife likewise has identified herself with various measures for the public good. She is active and vigorous and still has the old home, although she spends considerable time visiting among her children. She enjoys the regard of a wide circle of friends and is well known in the community. Zachariah D. Amos, third son of John M. and Catherine (Thompson) Amos, was born in Ohio, and when sixteen years of age accompanied his parents to Iowa. He came to Custer county in the spring of 1883 and took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres on section twenty-eight, township eighteen, range eighteen. He was married in Valley county, June 7, 1891, to Miss Arabella Love, who was born in Wisconsin, and for some time before her marriage had been a teacher in Nebraska schools. She had also homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land on section twenty-two, township eighteen, range eighteen, where she and her husband now reside. He has served for a number of years as moderator of the school board of district number two hundred and forty-two. Mr. and Mrs. Amos have three children living: Ailsa Bell, Maud L. and Frieda B., all at home. They also have in their household circle, Alice Emerson, whom they have reared since her infancy. Source: Compendium of history, reminiscence, and biography of Nebraska, Chicago: Alden Publishing Company, 1912, page 577

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