Amos WYMORE, b. 1Mar1842
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biography from
Portrait & Biographical Album of Mahaska Co., Iowa, 1887
AMOS WYMORE, farmer and stock-raiser,
resides on section 5, White Oak Township.
He was born in Indiana March 1, 1842,
and is the son of William H. and Rutha
(Snook) Wymore, the former a native of Ohio and
the latter of Kentucky. They followed the occu-
pation of farming, and came to Iowa about the
year 1836; he died in 1876, and she in May, 1884.
The subject of this sketch, Amos Wymore, was
married, May 10, 1866, to Mrs. Mary Tanner, nee
Bolton, who is a daughter of Abraham and Martha
(Goodchild) Bolton, who were natives of England,
came to this county from Illinois in 1846, and are
both deceased. The former died in 1852 and the
latter in May, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Wymore be-
came the parents of seven children, of whom only
two are living: Julian and Hattie; five died in in-
fancy.
Alva Tanner, the first husband of Mrs. Wymore,
was a soldier in the late war, and was killed on the
9th day of August, 1863. He was a member of
Co. C, 15th Iowa Vol. Inf., enlisted in the fall of
1861, and had veteranized in the spring of the
same year that he lost his life; he was a Sergeant
in his company. He was the father of two children:
Orin, now deceased, and one who died in infancy.
The subject of this sketch, Amos Wymore, was
a soldier during the late war, and a member of Co.
C, 15th Iowa Vol. Inf., commanded by Capt. James
A. Seevers. He enlisted Oct. 22, 1861, and served
fourteen months, when he was discharged by rea-
son of disability contracted in the service. He
participated in the battle of Shiloh, and was also
present during the siege of Corinth, where, in De-
cember, 1862, he was discharged as above stated.
Politically Mr. Wymore is a Republican, and has
filled the offices of Supervisor and member of the
School Board in his township. He is the owner of
114 acres of excellent land, all in a good state of
cultivation, and with the best class of improve-
ments. He has a good frame dwelling, and a com-
modious barn, 36x40 feet, with basement. He has
a fine orchard upon the place of thrifty trees in
good bearing. The entire farm is kept neat and in
good order, and is the best evidence of the thrift
and enterprise of its owner, who has been fairly
successful in his business. Personally and socially
Mr. and Mrs. Wymore are greatly esteemed among
their friends and acquaintances.
Portrait & Biographical Album of Mahaska Co., Iowa, 1887
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