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DAVID S. FAY DEAD.
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Well Known Pioneer of Troy Mills
Dies Suddenly. |
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Resident of Linn County for Nearly Half
a Century - Funeral Conducted
Yesterday by Rob Morris
Lodge A.F.&A.M. |
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David S. Fay, one of the pioneers of Linn county and a resident of Spring Grove township for nearly half a century, died Tuesday at his house in Troy Mills.
Mr. Fay was one of the representative citizens of this place and for thirty years had been prominently identified with its commercial interests. For twenty-six years he was assessor of Spring Grove township, and retired from that office only when he declined to serve longer. He was an active and influential member of the Methodist Protestant church and a member of the various church committees. Since 1862 he had been connected with the Masonic fraternity and for years had been a member of Rob Morris lodge No. 500 at Walker, by which organization the funeral was conducted. He was also a prominent member of Troy Mills lodge No. 290, I.O.O.F., in which he had passed all the chairs.
Mr. Fay was the oldest of eight children and was born in Champaign county, Ohio, June 18, 1828, the son of John P. and Eleanor Faurat Fay. He received his education in the schools of Ohio, and continued his residence in that state until 1854, when he came to Iowa, settling in Linn county, where he spent his remaining days with the exception of three years spent in Buchanan county, when he was employed as a surveyor.
He early entered a tract of eighty acres of land, to which he later added from time to time until he had 210 acres, fifty of which are covered with timber. All was wild and unimproved, but he placed it under cultivation and was successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits for some time. For the past thirty years, however, he gave his attention principally to mercantile buisiness of various kinds, and at the time of his death was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business with his son, John H.
In 1855 Mr. Fay was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Ward, daughter of William Ward, of Otter Creek township, who was one of the pioneer settlers of the county, hyaving located here in 1842. By this union were born two children, Nancy Eleanor, who married Elgin Benedict, of Clarion, Iowa, and Ida May, wife of John A. Dicks, of Whashington [sic] state. Mrs. Fay died June 16, 1869.
Mr. Fay was again married in 1872, his second union being with Mrs. Clara Dicks Willoughby. Unto them were born two children, Charles S., now a resident of Woodstock, Ill., and John H., of Troy Mills.
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From an old newspaper clipping found in the photo album
Date and source of clipping not given |
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