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Name: OYER, Amos
Nee: son of Joseph Oyer
Birth Date: 19 Jan 1882 Livingston, Illinois
Death Date: 2 Dec 1931 Chicago, murdered - caught in bandit's crossfire
First Date: 1907
Profession: Africa Inland Mission
Area: Matara
Married: 1. 23 Aug 1912 Phoebe Pearl Steiner b. 14 Dec 1885 Blufton, Ohio, d. 13 May 1929 Chicago; 2. In Cook County, Illinois 3 June 1930 Adella S. Steiner b. 6 Dec 1900 Blufton, Ohio, d. 27 Nov 1964 Blufton
Children: Robert Samuel (1915-1974); Ethelyn Sarah (1917-2010); Ruth Evangeline (1919-2010); Herbert Joseph (1921-2000); Alice Virginia (1925-2014)
Book Reference: SE, Red Book 1912, Oyer
General Information:
SE - Amos Oyer - Matara, AIM - July 1908
Red Book 1912 - A. Oyer - Naivasha
Red Book 1912 - Africa Inland Mission - Superintendent at Matara - also Miss Julia L. Oyer
Oyer - Amos was an energetic Mennonite farm boy from central Illinois who felt called to be a missionary. In the early 1900s he left the farm and sought further education and training before serving in Africa as a missionary under the sponsorship of the Mennonites. He was ordained on 21 October 1907. Returned to the USA in 1911
Web: The Rev. Amos Oyer, pastor of the Southwest Gospel tabernacle, 1217 West 72nd street, was shot and killed last night (Dec. 2) when he was trapped in the crossfire of a battle between two robbers and a druggist in his drug store at 7200 South Racine avenue. Mr. Oyer, a former missionary to East Africa, was 49 years old, married, and the father of five children. He lived at 7017 Ada street. He was a Mennonite. Charles W. Kenney of 8140 South Paulina street, owner of the pharmacy, fired one charge from a shotgun at the holdup men, and one of them, he says, fired one shot from a revolver. Police determined that the pastor had been struck by the charge from Kenney's shotgun, when they examined the slain man's body and found a large wound in his chest, caused by eleven pellets.