LYNN J. FANT

(From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 654 - 655.)
Transcribed by Kris Breid, 17 December 2004

LYNN J. FANT (DECEASED). At his residence in this county, on the 24th of January, 1873, in his sixty-sixth year, died the subject of the present memoir, Lynn J. Fant. He had been a resident of the county for fifteen years, and had become known throughout the central part of the county where he resided as a worthy citizen, an industrious farmer and an upright man. He was born in Scott county, Kentucky, on the 2d of March, 1807, and after he grew up was married in Owen county, that State, in the month of November, 1830, to Miss Sophia Yancy, who was born in Owen county April 9, 1815, and who still survives him.

After his marriage Mr. Fant continued farming in Kentucky, to which he had been brought up, until 1858, when he sold out there and removed to Missouri with his family, settling in Callaway county, where he lived until his death. From boyhood, his life was marked by the strictest sense of probity and by a desire to do his full duty in every relation of life. In disposition he was kind and agreeable, and so bore himself among those around him that all who knew him esteemed him and looked upon him as a friend. In his family he was one of the kindest and best of husbands and fathers, and his loved ones cherish his memory with singular sacredness. In the material affairs of life he was satisfactorily successful, and brought up a worthy family of children, leaving his widow and those with her a comfortable homestead upon which to depend. In a word, Lynn J. Fant, though he did not live to a great age, accomplished during his earthly career the full measure of man’s duty upon the earth, and when he passed away he had every assurance that in the life beyond, he would receive the greeting from his Master: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”

He and his good wife reared a family of nine children, as follows: Catherine, who died in 1862, the wife of Benjamin Britts; John, residing near Chariton; Sarah, died in 1872, the wife of Milton Corby; William, died in 1848; Martha, now Mrs. Jno. H. Curtis, of Butte City, Montana; Adelia, now Mrs. C. P. Gordon; Elizabeth, died, the wife of J. R. Boyce, of Butte City, Montana; George, a resident of this county; Linnie, now Mrs. J. R. Boyce, of Butte City, Montana; Cyrus E., died in infancy. Mrs. Fant, the mother of these, still resides on the farm in Fulton township and her son, George, has charge of the place and is conducting it. George Fant is a young man of industry and energy, and has every promise of becoming one of the leading farmers and influential citizens of the township. Mrs. Fant’s parents were Thomas and Sarah (Dickson) Yancy. Her husband’s father was Wm. Fant. Mrs. Fant is a member of the Christian Church. Her son-in-law, John H. Curtis, is a lawyer and real estate dealer at Butte City, Montana, and her other son-in-law, J. R. Boyse, is the leading merchant of that city.

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