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   Henry Clay Fike
   M, #162960, b. 21 Dec 1832, d. 2 Apr 1919
   
   Henry Clay Fike|b. 21 Dec 1832\nd. 2 Apr 1919|p1630.htm#i162960|Abel Fike|b. 15 Apr 1777\nd. 10 Feb 1852|p1060.htm#i105955|Nancy Land|b. 22 May 1792\nd. 12 Dec 1879|p1060.htm#i105956|Nathan B. Fike||p1630.htm#i162950|Susannah Fooshe||p1630.htm#i162951|Moses Land||p3887.htm#i388634|Charity Beshears||p3887.htm#i388635|
   
   Henry Clay Fike Henry Clay Fike was born on 21-Dec-1832 at Mascoutah, Saint Clair County, Illinois. He was the son of Abel Fike and Nancy Land. Henry married Lucy Cimbaline Power, daughter of Pennington Power and Elizabeth (Unknown), on 25-Dec-1855. Henry Clay Fike died on 2-Apr-1919 at Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri, at age 86.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Civil War Letter from Nancy's son Henry Clay Fike to wife, Lucy Cimbaline Power. This letter is one of a collection of Henry C. Fike memoribilia, found in the Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University ofKansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. RH MS 5:III.1No. 249.
   
   Steamer Missouri.
   Lying at Visksburg, Miss.
   February 27, 1865
   Dear Cimbaline,
   Since I mailed the other letter I wrote to you this morning I have learned, from a boat just landed here from below, that General Smith's command is, or was thru days ago, encamped about ten miles below the city of New Orleans, on the old battle-ground, where Genl. Jackson fought, on January 8', 1814. Mother had two brothers there under Genl. Jackson, at the time of that battle - Uncle Lewis and Moses Land. I, also, learned here, that our command disembarked and remained here some four or five days, and then proceeded below, leaving all the cavalry here, which came down the river with them.
   We have some freight to take off here, and some to put on, so we will hardly get off before dinner. I think, with good luck, two more days will land us at our destination. I found another "stray officer" at this place, hunting for his command. He is a Lieutenant of the 178 N.Y. Vols. and belongs to our Brigade.
   I will close. If we land at Natches in day-time, I shall try and drop you a line at that place.
   Your affectionate husband,
   Henry.
   
   
   
   
   
   Warrensburg, Missouri, Friday, April 4, 1919
   
   Weekly Standard Herald
   Oldest Citizen Dead
   
   Capt. Henry C. Fike, One of Our Honored and Beloved Citizens, Passed Away Tuesday Night
   
   It was with deep sorrow that the many friends of Capt. Henry C. Fike learned that he had answered the final summons and had passed away Tuesday night at the family home on North Maguire Street in this city. The summons came at 10:45. It was not generally known that his condition was critical. He had been in failing health on account of his advanced age for a couple of years. A couple of weeks ago he suffered a severe fall, mention of which was made in this paper at the time. His health had been so poorly taht (sic) he had not been down town much for the past year or two. He was not ill, but was too weak to do much walking.
   
   Mr. Fike had been a resident of Warrensburg for more than fifty years. A few weeks before he passed away he told us of having been a subscriber for the Standard-Herald for fifty-one or fifty-two years. He came here from Illinois, after having been mustered out of the Union Army, where he obtained his military title of Captain. After all of these years it has been his custom to go yearly to the annual reunion of his old regiment. During the past two or three trips he had told us of the rapidly thinning ranks of his old comrades, and now he has joined the majority.
   
   At the time of his death he was eighty-six years of age. His has been an active public life. After locating in Warrensburg he was for years one of our most enterprising and public-spirited citizens and was closely identified with the upbuilding of the city. For many years he held a responsible position in the Internal Revenue Collector's office in Kansas City, which position he resigned but a few years ago on account of his advanced age.
   
   He was a devoted member of the Market Street Methodist Episcopal church and lived according to his professions. His living has been a benefit to the world and his memory will be cherished by friends legion.
   
   He is survived by one daughter, Miss Ella, who has remained at home, and she is the last of the immediate relatives of her father and mother.
   
   Arrangements for the funeral have not been made, but the funeral will probably be held Friday or Saturday of this week.
   
   
   
   
   
   CAPT. HENRY C. FIKE,
   
   is one of the leading men in the literary, educational and religious circles of the city. He was born in Illinois, St. Clair county, near the city of Belleville, on December 21, 1832. His father, Abel Fike, who was a native of North Carolina, emigrated to Illinois about the year 1812. In 1847, Henry C. entered M. Kendre College under the presidency of Rev. E. Wentworth, and continued in this institution till 1852,
   when he graduated with honors in the full college classical course. His father died in February, 1852. After this he engaged in teaching. He accepted a position in the public school of Highland, Madison county Illinois, holding this till 1854, when he took charge of a school at a place called Union, near Mascoutah, Illinois, which he held till the spring of 1855. During the following summer he was appointed by the county court as commissioner to take the state census of Illinois for St. Clair county. In the fall of 1855-6, taught in the schools of Mascoutah. During the following year he engaged in the mercantile
   business. In 1857 he was elected by the board of education of the public schools of Mascoutah, as principal of the same, which position he held until 1862, when he was re-elected for the following year, but resigned in order to enlist in the service of his country (in defense of the union.) He was at once appointed regimental quartermaster of 117th regiment, Illinois volunteers. He was afterwards promoted to acting assistant quarter master, and was in several closely contested battles. Soon after the war he located at Warrensburg where he has made it his home ever since. Soon after coming here he engaged in milling, erecting buildings in 1867. He was married near Trenton, Ill., December 25, 1855, to Miss Lucy C. Power, an estimable lady of rare intellectual culture, whose acquaintance he formed while teaching. She was educated at the female academy of Lebanon, Illinois. Her father, Pennington Power, Esq., was an extensive land holder and farmer of Illinois. This conjugal union has been blessed by two children, the oldest dying in infancy, the second, a daughter, Miss Ellie is still living under the parental roof. Her father has given her a thorough education. She graduated in the full Normal course in the summer of 1880, and is a lady of fine mental attainments. Mr. Fike is a member of city council and secretary of the board of regents of the state normal school at Warrensburg, vice-president of the county Sunday school association, and a leading man in all public enterprises for the public good. In politics he is a true republican, and honest in his convictions. He is a member of the M.E. church, and superintendent of the Sunday school, and one of the most liberal supporters of the cause of christianity. He is strictly temperate in his habits. He is social and happy at the fireside, prompt in business, and quick and impulsive to duty.
   
   
   
   
   
   Newspaper clipping in Scrapbook of Miss ____ Johnson. Johnson County Historical Society, Warrensburg, MO
   
   He resigned this to enter the department of Internal Revenue of the Sixth district of Missouri, headquarters in Kansas City, to which he gave practically the rest of his active life. A change of parties did sharpen the guillotine for him; but during those four years as librarian of the State Normal School at Warrensburg, his genius for such work re-arranged, classified and lsited the entire library so it is today a model well known.
   
   April 18, 1899, Captain Fike, then sixty-six was reinstated in the Internal Revenue office, and we have heard the tradition that during the nearly eighteen subsequent years there never was found a single mistake or blot in his work, and what he wrote in those seventeen and more years was prodigious. Not infrequently during those years, he nonored and brightened our office with his visits. He always had something new as well as old to talk about; cropping out often the early days at McKendree, for example; for his affection for his alma mater was nothing short of a passion. For health reasons he resigned from the federal service February 1, 1917, since then we have missed the sunshine of his calls. He was elected a member of the Board of Education of Warrensburg in 1869 and served three terms. It was during these years that the legislature in 1870 created two State Normal Schools. The Board of Education in Warrensburg took the steps which resulted eventually in securing the present Normal school in Warrensburg. Captain Fike was one of that board. On the day the Normal School was fixed at Warrensburg, April 27, 1871, Henry C. Fike was appointed by the board of regents, treasurer of the school which position he held till 1874, when he was appointed by the governor as a member of the board of regents, a position he held for twenty-seven years. In 1874, the board of regents elected him secretary of the board and for many years he was re-elected to that position. Owing to a new law that no government employe (sic) could hold an appointive position, he resigned as secretary of the board. Mr. Fike served several terms in the city council where he was actively identified with every movement for the betterment of the city, its men and its institutions.
   Captain Fike was converted at fifteen, while at McKendree, and there he joined the church. He was seventy-one years a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For a generation he was an office bearer; for thirty-eight years he was a Sunday School Superintendent, and the stream of lads and lasses that passed under his loving watch-care out into live revered his name, inspired by his sincere and spotless character. He was a lay delegate to the memorable General Conference in Baltimore in 1876, when he sat by his colleague General Clinton B. Fisk. He had a rare voice, rich, searching, and he was chorister for twent-eight years. We have been refreshed by stories of how when eighty-six years of age, he would sing in the long witner evening, the ballads and hymns of long ago. Last March, Captain Fike slipped on the icy porch of his home and fell heavily. he was confined to his bed for four weeks. April 1 a change set in and at 10:45 he suddenly and peacefully fell asleep. The funeral was held in the
   church. Dr. Harvey A. Jones, pastor, presided. The analysis of the life of this Christian as given in tender appreciation by Dr. B.F. Crissman, a dear family friend, who thirteen years before, over the grave of Mrs. Fike promised Captain Fike to perform this same last act for him. The identical hymns and Scriptures were used. The discourse was a vivid story of a good man and true. The old soldier comrades then had their sevice, and at the grave the brethren of the Masonic lodge where he had been a member for half a century performed their last rites. From the altar buried in flowers, all that was mortal of this gentleman, this high patriot and unblemished Christian, citizen, this thoughtful neighbor, charitable and prodigal in friendship, was laid to rest by the side of his wife until "this mortal shall have put on immortality."
   
   
   
   
   Census 29-Aug-1860 Mascoutah, Saint Clair County, Illinois, real estate value 1,000.00?, personal property 200.00
   Census 2-Jun-1870 Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri, real estate value 15,000.00, personal property 1,000.00
   Census 11-Jun-1900 Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri, 3 children, 1 living
   Census 1910 Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri, a widower
   Census-Occ 29-Aug-1860 a teacher
   Census-Occ 2-Jun-1870 a miller
   Census-Occ 11-Jun-1900 a Deputy Collector, Internal Revenue
   Census-Occ 1910 a clerk, Internal Revenue

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   Capt Henry Clay Fike
   Birth: 1832
   Mascoutah
   St. Clair County
   Illinois, USA
   Death: Apr. 12, 1919
   Warrensburg
   Johnson County
   Missouri, USA
   
   Capt. Henry Clay Fike was the son of Abel and Nancy (Land) Fike. He was the husband of Lucy Cimbaline (Power) Fike. He served during the Civil War.
   
   US Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865-
   Name: Henry C. Fike
   Side: Union
   Regiment Name: 117th Regiment, Illinois Infantry
   Company: K
   Rank In: Private
   Rank Out: Regimental Quartermaster
   Alternate Name : Henry Clay Fike
   Film Number: M539 Roll 28
   
   American Civil War Soldiers-
   Name: Henry Fike
   Residence: Mascoutah, Illinois
   Enlistment Date: 26 August 1862
   Side Served: Union
   State Served: Illinois
   Service Record: Enlisted as a Quartermaster on 26 August 1862 - Commission in Company S, 117th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 26 August 1862 - Resigned Company S, 117th Infantry Regiment Infantry on 4 July 1865
   Sources: 7
   
   Simpson, Bishop Matthew
   Cyclopedia of Methodism, embracing sketches of its rise, progress and present condition, with biographical notices and numerous illustrations, 1885, Page 36O
   
   Fike, Henry C., A.M., a native of St. Clair County, Illinois, born in 1832, was converted at the age of fifteen, and in his twentieth year graduated at McKendree College, and subsequently received the degree of A.M. He spent seven years teaching, and during the Civil War he was three years Quartermaster of the 117th Regiment Illinois Volunteers. Since then he has been occupied in milling at Warrensburg, Missouri. He has been for years Curator of the State Normal School. For many years he has devoted his attention to Sabbath-school work. He represented the St. Louis Conference at the General Conference of 1876.
   
   Family links:
   Parents:
   Abel Fike (1777 - 1852)
   Nancy Land Crownover Fike (1792 - 1879)
   
   Spouse:
   Lucy Cimbaline Power Fike (1835 - 1906)
   
   Children:
   Ellie Fike (1861 - 1950)*
   
   
   Burial:
   Sunset Hill Cemetery
   Warrensburg
   Johnson County
   Missouri, USA
   
   Created by: Mary Jane Haight-Eckert
   Record added: Jun 26, 2008
   Find A Grave Memorial# 27842048

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