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DIED:  At the home of his daughter, Mrs. W.E. Freeman, in Ogden, Ia., Wednesday, May 29th., 1895, Amos DeHaven in the 78th. year of his age.

Mr. DeHaven, was born in the city of Philadelphia, July 12th., 1817.  He was of French descent and the last of a long line of the early French liberals that emigrated to America, and upon the breaking out of the revolutionary war espoused the cause of the colonies and enlisted under Washington.  When the subject of this sketch was ten years old he with his parents moved to Ohio where in 1841 he married Miss Elizabeth McDaniel.  To this union seven children were born four boys and three girls, five of which, with the mother, survive.  In 1873, he moved to Iowa, settled near Ogden, where he continued to make his home until his death.  He spent much of his time among his relatives in Ohio or with his son in California where he went about a year ago.  The climate did not agree with him and he returned in March leaving his wife and son.  As he grew worse, the wife and mother returned, and was with him the last week of his illness.  He was naturally robust, and retained all of his faculties to almost the last moment.  The funeral exercises were from the home of his son-in-law, W.E. Freeman, by the Rev. Lott, and was largely attended by the settlers, in and about Ogden, and a large concourse of sympathizing friends followed the body to its last resting place in Glenwood, thus showing the respect they retained for one whom they had known for a quarter of a century.  

The subject of the above, the father of Mrs. W.B. Coursen, of this place, was the last of his generation, being the youngest of twelve children whose parents, Garnett and Catherine DeHaven, lie buried in the Garber Cemetery, south of this place.

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