OBITUARY: Nathaniel Bragg Fish, 1812-1904, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press -- April 21, 1904]



                           Nathaniel Bragg Fish

The life of one of our oldest citizens closed early last Monday evening,
April 19, 1904.  For several months past old Mr. Fish had been confined
to his home on account of feeble health attending an age of nearly a
century.

Nathaniel Bragg Fish was born in the town of China, Kennebec county, Maine,
May 15, 1812.  He was the ninth and last child of Bolton and Anna Bragg Fish.

Many of the ancestors of grandpa Fish were veterans of the colonial and
Indian Wars that led to the launching of the nation, his father being
killed in the battle of Lundy's Lane in 1814 while fighting with the U.S.
troop as a private solider.

Mr. Fish moved to Dover, Maine, with his mother and lived there until 1869
when he came west to Mitchell county, Iowa, where he bought a farm in Union
township living there until 1877, when he located on a farm near Northwood,
afterwards moving to Charles City in 1882, removing that year to Osage,
where he has since lived.

Mr. Fish married Nancy M. Shepard at Dover, Maine, May 27, 1839, to them were
born nine children in order of their birth are as follows:

Rozilla, wife of J. M. Littlefield, Belt, Montana; Webster A., a union
soldier who died at Baton Rouge, La, during the war; Luthera, wife of
Parker French, Frazee, Minn.; Howard C., Osage, Iowa; Josephine, wife of
W. R. Nicol, Osage, Iowa; George R., St. Cloud, Minn.; Percis Nancy, wife
of Jas. Hiller, Charles City, Ia., Joseph F. Osage, Iowa, Lillie, wife of
Henry Knechtges, Osage, Iowa.

During the year 1839 when the U. S. was having some trouble with the
boundary line between the province of New Brunswick, Mr. Fish enlisted
as a soldier of the Federal government and remained in the woods with
the frontier troops from January until the following April when the
boundary dispute was settled.

When past 90 years of age Mr. Fish was compelled to go to Rochester Minn.,
where he had a diseased foot amputated by the hospital surgeons, from
which trying ordeal he rallied and to the surprise of his relatives and
friends managed to get about with crutches until last holiday time when
decline took possession of his former energy since which time he has been
unable to be up town.

The funeral will be conducted by Rev. Coon of the Baptist church, this
forenoon at ten o'clock, at the home of his son Howard.



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               Transcribed by: Marilyn O'Connor, August 2005