PIONEER PASSES AWAY
Samuel Amspoker was born in Hancock, County, Ohio on the 23rd day of May 1837, and died at Springview, Nebraska on May 28, 1915 at the age of 78 years and five days.
Mr. Amspoker was one of six children, and when he was five years of age his parents moved from Hancock County, Ohio to Harrison County, Ohio where he spent his childhood and the early years of his manhood.
On October 2, 1863, he was married to Mary Jane Caldwell, and to that union nine children were born, five boys and four girls, all of whom survive their father.
In 1868 the Amspoker family moved from Harrison County, Ohio to Adams County, Iowa where they resided until the spring of 1882 when they came to Boone County, and in the year 1884 the family moved to Keya Paha County, Nebraska where he has resided ever since.
Mr. Amspoker was a man of unusually rugged constitution, but had not been in his usual health for six months past. On Thursday, a week preceding his death, he was taken with an acute attack of appendicitis. From the first the seriousness of his condition was realized, and the members of his family hastened to his bedside.
In the death of Mr. Amspoker, another name if stricken from the ever lessening roll of the first settlers. In his life of almost a third of a century in the county, and occupying the public position which he did for a number of years, he gained the acquaintance of almost every person in the county, which in his case meant a friendship. His death will cause a sense of personal loss to all who knew him.
He was a man of excellent habits, fine moral character and sturdy constitution, and he continued to be active long past the age when men ordinarily drop out of the ranks of workers. To this end no doubt his sunshiny disposition largely contributed. He met most of the situations of life with a smile. He was a practical matter-of-fact man, but had his own way of extracting merriment from life as it went along, and he was not disposed to worry about matters that could be remedied in other ways. He was invariably a good neighbor, and there was no happier family circle than his. His life work was done and done well. When he died full of years and ready to be gather to his fathers, the grief that was felt over the close of his long career was widespread and sincere. His best monument will be the good report that he has left behind in the community in which he has lived for more than thirty years.
Copied from a 1915 edition of the Springview Herald
Samuel Amspoker was born in Hancock, County, Ohio on the 23rd day of May 1837, and died at Springview, Nebraska on May 28, 1915 at the age of 78 years and five days.
Mr. Amspoker was one of six children, and when he was five years of age his parents moved from Hancock County, Ohio to Harrison County, Ohio where he spent his childhood and the early years of his manhood.
On October 2, 1863, he was married to Mary Jane Caldwell, and to that union nine children were born, five boys and four girls, all of whom survive their father.
In 1868 the Amspoker family moved from Harrison County, Ohio to Adams County, Iowa where they resided until the spring of 1882 when they came to Boone County, and in the year 1884 the family moved to Keya Paha County, Nebraska where he has resided ever since.
Mr. Amspoker was a man of unusually rugged constitution, but had not been in his usual health for six months past. On Thursday, a week preceding his death, he was taken with an acute attack of appendicitis. From the first the seriousness of his condition was realized, and the members of his family hastened to his bedside.
In the death of Mr. Amspoker, another name if stricken from the ever lessening roll of the first settlers. In his life of almost a third of a century in the county, and occupying the public position which he did for a number of years, he gained the acquaintance of almost every person in the county, which in his case meant a friendship. His death will cause a sense of personal loss to all who knew him.
He was a man of excellent habits, fine moral character and sturdy constitution, and he continued to be active long past the age when men ordinarily drop out of the ranks of workers. To this end no doubt his sunshiny disposition largely contributed. He met most of the situations of life with a smile. He was a practical matter-of-fact man, but had his own way of extracting merriment from life as it went along, and he was not disposed to worry about matters that could be remedied in other ways. He was invariably a good neighbor, and there was no happier family circle than his. His life work was done and done well. When he died full of years and ready to be gather to his fathers, the grief that was felt over the close of his long career was widespread and sincere. His best monument will be the good report that he has left behind in the community in which he has lived for more than thirty years.
Copied from a 1915 edition of the Springview Herald
PIONEER PASSES AWAY
Samuel Amspoker was born in Hancock, County, Ohio on the 23rd day of May 1837, and died at Springview, Nebraska on May 28, 1915 at the age of 78 years and five days.
Mr. Amspoker was one of six children, and when he was five years of age his parents moved from Hancock County, Ohio to Harrison County, Ohio where he spent his childhood and the early years of his manhood.
On October 2, 1863, he was married to Mary Jane Caldwell, and to that union nine children were born, five boys and four girls, all of whom survive their father.
In 1868 the Amspoker family moved from Harrison County, Ohio to Adams County, Iowa where they resided until the spring of 1882 when they came to Boone County, and in the year 1884 the family moved to Keya Paha County, Nebraska where he has resided ever since.
Mr. Amspoker was a man of unusually rugged constitution, but had not been in his usual health for six months past. On Thursday, a week preceding his death, he was taken with an acute attack of appendicitis. From the first the seriousness of his condition was realized, and the members of his family hastened to his bedside.
In the death of Mr. Amspoker, another name if stricken from the ever lessening roll of the first settlers. In his life of almost a third of a century in the county, and occupying the public position which he did for a number of years, he gained the acquaintance of almost every person in the county, which in his case meant a friendship. His death will cause a sense of personal loss to all who knew him.
He was a man of excellent habits, fine moral character and sturdy constitution, and he continued to be active long past the age when men ordinarily drop out of the ranks of workers. To this end no doubt his sunshiny disposition largely contributed. He met most of the situations of life with a smile. He was a practical matter-of-fact man, but had his own way of extracting merriment from life as it went along, and he was not disposed to worry about matters that could be remedied in other ways. He was invariably a good neighbor, and there was no happier family circle than his. His life work was done and done well. When he died full of years and ready to be gather to his fathers, the grief that was felt over the close of his long career was widespread and sincere. His best monument will be the good report that he has left behind in the community in which he has lived for more than thirty years.
Copied from a 1915 edition of the Springview Herald
Samuel Amspoker was born in Hancock, County, Ohio on the 23rd day of May 1837, and died at Springview, Nebraska on May 28, 1915 at the age of 78 years and five days.
Mr. Amspoker was one of six children, and when he was five years of age his parents moved from Hancock County, Ohio to Harrison County, Ohio where he spent his childhood and the early years of his manhood.
On October 2, 1863, he was married to Mary Jane Caldwell, and to that union nine children were born, five boys and four girls, all of whom survive their father.
In 1868 the Amspoker family moved from Harrison County, Ohio to Adams County, Iowa where they resided until the spring of 1882 when they came to Boone County, and in the year 1884 the family moved to Keya Paha County, Nebraska where he has resided ever since.
Mr. Amspoker was a man of unusually rugged constitution, but had not been in his usual health for six months past. On Thursday, a week preceding his death, he was taken with an acute attack of appendicitis. From the first the seriousness of his condition was realized, and the members of his family hastened to his bedside.
In the death of Mr. Amspoker, another name if stricken from the ever lessening roll of the first settlers. In his life of almost a third of a century in the county, and occupying the public position which he did for a number of years, he gained the acquaintance of almost every person in the county, which in his case meant a friendship. His death will cause a sense of personal loss to all who knew him.
He was a man of excellent habits, fine moral character and sturdy constitution, and he continued to be active long past the age when men ordinarily drop out of the ranks of workers. To this end no doubt his sunshiny disposition largely contributed. He met most of the situations of life with a smile. He was a practical matter-of-fact man, but had his own way of extracting merriment from life as it went along, and he was not disposed to worry about matters that could be remedied in other ways. He was invariably a good neighbor, and there was no happier family circle than his. His life work was done and done well. When he died full of years and ready to be gather to his fathers, the grief that was felt over the close of his long career was widespread and sincere. His best monument will be the good report that he has left behind in the community in which he has lived for more than thirty years.
Copied from a 1915 edition of the Springview Herald
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