Amos A Moyer

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Obituary- Moyer, Amos

AMOS MOYER LAID TO REST
IN THE LOCAL CEMETERY
Aged Man Was Killed by R. I. Work
Train, Thanksgiving Day
Funeral services for the late Amos Moyer, of Willard, were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Willard church, conducted by the Rev. G. C. Albin, of Rossville. The body was brought to Rossville for burial.

The old gentleman was struck by a flat car being pushed ahead of a work train about 8 o’clock last Thursday and died about 2 o’clock in the afternoon at a Topeka hospital He was thrown between the rails according to eye-witnesses and badly cut about the head and body.

Amos Moyer was born at Fort Wayne, Ind., September 15, 1850, died Nov. 29, 1923, aged 73 years 2 months and 14 days. He came to Kansas in the year 1857, settling in Bourbon county, and later coming into Shawnee county, thus being a resident of Kansas for 64 years.

He was married on January 30, 1881, to Miss Jane Cox. To this union was born eleven children, six of whom preceded him in death.

He leaves to mourn his departure his faithful wife, five children Chas. E., Ralph A., Oscar P. all of Willard; Alonzo A. of Ashland, Ky, and Mrs. Mary E. Bledsoe, of Paxico, Kansas, and a number of grandchildren.