Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Amphlett, Moses H. September 17, 1918
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The Daily Sentinel, Wednesday, September 18, 1918
Moses H. Amphlett, aged 78 years, died last evening at 11 o’clock at his home 
at 215 High street.  The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at the late 
residence at 1:30 and at the Methodist church at 2 o’clock.  The Knights 
Templar will have charge of the services with the G.A.R. as escort.   Burial 
will be in the family lot in Highland Park cemetery.

While the death of Mr. Amphlett was not unexpected, the word of his demise was 
received in Ionia with deep regret by many friends of this well known and 
esteemed family.  He had been ailing for several months, and the last week or 
so had been in a critical condition, unconscious for the last day or two.  

Mr. Amphlett was born in Akron, O., September 23, 1840, and following his 
marriage in Ohio to Miss Amanda Hawk, they came to Jackson, Michigan.  It was 
in Jackson that Mr. Amphlett enlisted in the Seventeenth Michigan infantry for 
service in the civil war.  He went with his regiment to the front and was in 
many battles notably among them the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, 
being slightly wounded in the latter.  He was after several months taken sick 
and brought home by his brother, Thomas L. Amphlett.  After returning to 
Jackson and regaining his health, Mr. and Mrs. Amphlett moved to Ionia in the 
late sixties where Mr. Amphlett engaged in the mercantile business in the 
store that was on the site of the Regent theater.  He was at the head of that 
business for several years, and later in about 1870 with his brother Thomas 
built what is now the Ionia (illegible)….

After several years in Dakota Mr. Amphlett and his family returned to Ionia 
and purchased the crockery and another business of Whitmyer & Barnes, in the 
same building on Main street above referred to as torn down last year.  This 
firm was known as Amphlett & Sanderson for a period of years, and after that 
the firm went into the wholesale stoneware business, Mr. Amphlett’s son, 
William Amphlett, being taken into the firm at that time.  During the last 
several years William L. Amphlett had entire charge of that business until it 
was closed out last fall.  He was also in the grocery business for awhile, the 
Tower store opposite the ….-Williston being built for Amphlett, Sanderson & 
Co., W.L. …the company.  

Mr. Amphlett had been actively …..with the Methodist church at the time of its 
building.  He as also a prominent Knight Templar, and member of William H. 
Borden Post No. 112, G.A.R.

Mr. Amphlett is survived by his wife, also by their son William L. Amphlett.  
His brothers are all dead, having died in the order of their birth, Moses H. 
being the youngest of them.  He has lived in the old home on High street where 
he died, for 46 years.

As a citizen Mr. Amphlett was always prominently identified with all business 
interests, was a loyal man to his country, honest and honorable in his 
dealings with men.  In his political life he has been a staunch republican, 
and has served as city councilor.  The last five years of Mr. Amphlett’s 
leftie were made pleasant though the fact that with his wife he spent the 
winter at their home in Hawks Park, Florida, an incident being that Hawks was 
also Mrs. Amphlett’s maiden name.


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