The following information is an Obituary for Henry Ammiras Darrow, b. Sept 19, 1791 in New London, CT; d. November 30, 1886 in Winfield Twshp, Sauk Cty, WI. It was published in the Reedsburg Free Press, Dec 9, 1886. 
OBITUARY 
Mr. Henry Amminos (that was the newspaper spelling. DCH)DARROW, of the town of Winfield, whose death occurred November 30th, 1886, was born at New London, Ct., Sept. 19, 1791. His father was a Revolutionary soldier, and a shoemaker by trade. He removed to Booneville, (newspaper spelling, DCH) N.Y., in 1795. When this place first began to be occupied and the early settlers underwent many hardships. There were eleven children in the family, eight boys and three girls. These early settlers were very poor, having but little money to pay the shoemaker, and that which they had was very much depreciated in value, requiring some seventeen dollars of this "Continental Currency" to pay for a meal of victuals. The style of living was quite different from the present. Instead of pantry and kitchen filled with all that is needful and convenient, the old iron bake kettle, some wooden dishes, perhaps a few pewter plates, a gourd instead of a tin dipper, a few knives and forks, manufactured by the blacksmith, constituted the outfit of the common people. The bread was made from corn meal or rye flour. Their clothes either from wool or flax, manufactured from the raw material by each household for themselves. Each farmer made his own wooden plow. All the implements were of a very rude and primitive character Every one had a hard fight for a living. Of course the educating of a family of eleven children, by employing a tutor or private teacher was not to be thought of. It was so expensive, and our present system of free schools had not been originated.
The name Darrow is not of recent origin. It is traceable to the North of Scotland, thence to England, thence to America. The ancestors were large, strong and healthy—quite noted for their size. Several of the men were said to have been about seven feet high and to have weighed nearly three hundred pounds.
Henry A. was the second son and fourth in the family, and was obliged to go out to service quite young.   As his father died when he was 20 years old and the other children were married as (unreadable) support of the family, until he was about 32 years of age, when he gave up all his interest in the farm and other property to his sister, and went to what was then regarded as "the far west," that is to the Genesse county, in western New York, and commenced for himself near Rochester. Then he married the oldest daughter of Nathaniel Dann, (a well to-do farmer,) and moved to Ohio and bought a farm. In 1839 he sold his farm and moved to Walworth Co., Wis. In 1851, he exchanged this farm for the one on which he lived until the day of his death. He had very little sickness or suffering, except from rheumatism. His good health and long life, (for he was in his 96th year of age when he died) are no doubt to be ascribed partly to his temperate habits, and partly to the fact that he was descended from long-lived stock. Some of ancestors having lived to be one hundred years old.
He drank no liquors of any kind, made no use of tobacco in any form; he used no profane language; he never allowed himself to get into a passion and scarcely ever punished a child; he seldom fretted, was almost always cheerful and jovial; his thought and care for himself was but little, while it was exercised in large measure for the comfort and enjoyment of his family. He desired that all his children should acquire a good education and assisted them so far as he was able, making home a school for them during the long winter evenings. He subscribed to no religious creed, but he was a constant reader of the Bible and believed all of it. He did not practice family worship, but made his whole life religious, and his children are grateful for his good example and his many good counsels. It is rarely that we meet with one who was spared to such a good old age; to see such a large family of children grown up to manhood and womanhood about him, besides several grandchildren, and to be able, as he was to go back in memory to the days of George Washington, recall the numerous interesting events – remarkable changes – the marvelous progress that has occurred during nearly the century that he lived. A period during which greater advancement has been made in civilization, education and Christianity than in any 2,000 years of the world’s previous history. Though the weather was very cold on the day of the funeral the attendance was large. Three of the sons and four of the daughters and husbands were present, and several of the grandchildren, also a large number of old acquaintances and friends. The text of the funeral discourse was Job 5:26, "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in his season."
Contributed by Dean Hagen