Allen County IN Archives Obituaries.....Sheets, Amos August 7, 1930
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Elkhart Truth 8 Aug 1930
Amos Sheets, 74, a farmer and thresher who lived four and a half miles 
northeast of Nappanee in Union township, died at 5:30 last night at his home.  
He had been engaged as a thresher for 50 summers.  Mr. Sheets the son of 
Solomon and Elizabeth Sheets, had been ill of heart trouble and paralysis for 
at least a year.  Forty-three years ago he was married to Nannie Moyer, who 
survives him.  He was a member of the Church of the Brethren, and attended the 
Union Center church, where he was a deacon.  Surviving him in addition to Mrs. 
Sheets, are a daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Mishler of New Paris; two sons, George at 
home and Curtis of three miles south of Wakarusa; seven grandchildren; two 
brothers, George and John O. Sheets of near Nappanee.  Funeral services will 
be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Union Center church and burial will be in the 
adjoining cemetery.  The Rev. Frank Kreider of near Elkhart, assisted by the 
Rev. David Miller, will officiate.  Mr. Sheets, who was born in Van Wert 
county, Ohio, Jan 25, 1856, was brought to Elkhart county when six years old.  
His father became one of the most prominent citizens of Union township, 
serving them as township trustee for eight years.

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