Washington County ID Archives Obituaries.....Hitt, Amos F. 1916
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The News 1-5-1917
The News
Cambridge, Idaho
Friday, January 5, 1917
 
DEATH OF A. F. HITT
 
Death Resulted from a Fall on the Ice
 
This community was greatly shocked last evening when the announcement came 
that Mr. Amos F. Hitt, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of 
Weiser and Washington county, had suddenly passed away.
 
Mr. Hitt was around town during the day and was seemingly in the best of 
health and spirits.  As night approached he went out to do his evening work, 
such as milking the cow, getting in fuel, etc., and hat been joking and 
laughing just before leaving the house.  When he did not return as soon as 
expected, his daughter stepped to the door to call him and saw him lying prone 
upon the ground with some stocks of wood in his arms.  His son-in-law, Fred 
Oster, who with his wife are visiting there, Mrs. Hitt and other members of 
the family rushed to him and carried him into the house.  A physician was 
immediately called, but he expired before the arrival of the physician.
 
When found he was lying on his back as he had  fallen.  On his forehead was a 
slight wound from which blood was oozing, and he may have died from concussion.
 
Amos F. Hitt was born in Vinton the day and was seemingly in the county, Ohio, 
August 6, 1850, and was 66 years, 4 months and 20 days old at the time of his 
death, at 6:30 o'clock December 27, 1916.  He came to Idaho in his youth, 
arriving here in 1872.  He taught school on Mann creek at the Jefferson school 
house, and took up a homestead in Mann creek valley.  For some time he ran a 
saw mill on Hitt mountain and at all times was an industrious and progressive 
citizen.  In 1905 he was appointed state pure food and horticultural 
commissioner, and later resigned this position to become field agent for the 
agricultural depart- which position he held at the time of his death.
 
Mr. Hitt was married at Fort Wilkerson, in Salubria valley, to Miss Ida 
Jeannette Logan, in 1876, and the widow and eight children survive him.  -- 
Weiser Signal.

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