Eash, Amos M. (1883-1952)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1952 Jul 17 p. 1

Birth date: 1883

text of obituary:

Retired Pastor, City Missionary Died

REV. AMOS M. EASH SERVED IN CHICAGO MISSION MANY YEARS

Metamora. Ill. — Rev. Amos M. Eash, 69, well known Mennonite pastor and former city mission worker, died at a Peoria hospital July 2 after a long Illness. He had been a resident of the Meadows Mennonite Home until a few months before his death.

The body was sent to Topeka, Ind. where funeral services were conducted at the Topeka Mennonite church on July 5. Burial was made in the Yoder cemetery south of Shipshewana.

A native of the Shipshewana, Ind. community, Rev. Eash went to Chicago in 1904 and became associated with the late Rev. A. H. Leaman in city mission work, becoming superintendent of the newly established 26th Street Mission in 1906. A new mission building was erected in 1910.

After World War I, he volunteered for relief service. From 1919 to 1921 he served as superintendent of a boys’ orphanage in Jerusalem. Returning to Chicago, he again took up the leadership of the 26th Street mission and continued as its superintendent when the work was transferred from the (Old) Mennonite board to that of the Central Conference of Mennonites.

In 1928 he visited the Congo Inland Mission field in Africa, and later was named secretary-treasurer of the mission board. His last pastorate was at the Comins, Mich. church, from which he retired in 1948 because of ill health.

Surviving are two brothers, Cornelius and Sam Eash, and a half brother, Clyde Yoder of Topeka.