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History of Manistee, Mason and Oceana counties, Michigan
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of
Its Prominent Men and Pioneers

Published by H. R. Page & Co., Chicago, IL, 1882

Transcribed by Linda Talbott

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Page 146
DEITS, Amasa H.
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Amasa H. Deits, farmer, Section 2, was born in Monroe County, N.Y., April
20, 1835, and came to this state in the Fall of 1845, and into this
township, March 20, 1872.  He enlisted, September, 1861, at Grand Rapids,
in the Eighth Michigan Infantry, and February 14, 1862, was transferred to
the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, and discharged at
Philadelphia, September 30, 1864.  He was wounded at Fair Oaks, May 31,
1862, (being shot through the right shoulder), and taken to the hospital
at Annapolis, Md.  He was discharged in September, and sent back to his
regiment, at Gloucester Pt., Va.  He married Charity Van Valkenburg, April
28, 1867, who died July 3, 1872, leaving two children -- Alfred H., and
Alonzo H.  He married again, December 25, 1874, Mrs. Rhobie A. Barnhart,
Pewamo, Ionia Co., Mich., who has one child, Ida V.  He homesteaded, in
1871, 120 acres, on Section 2, his present residence, and has made large
improvements, and in a short time he will have one of the finest farms in
the township.
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