Holland City News, Thursday, June 10, 1915

Dar Huff, a veteran of the Civil War, and known throughout this part of Ottawa County as a fifer, is dead at his home in Ventura at the age of 71 years. Mr. Huff was dangerously ill during the past winter, and at the time it was feared that he would not recover. But after a hard fight against the malady, he rallied, and a few weeks ago he was seen on the street, so that it was believed the he would be able to play his fife at the Memorial Day exercises in Holland, which he has been doing ever since celebrations of the kind have been held here. But Memorial Day found him too feeble for this rather arduous task, and he was missed out of the line of march for the first time this year.

Dar Huff served during most of the Civil War. He enlisted as a young man on March 14, 1862, and served throughout the war until June 1865, when he was mustered out with the rest of his regiment. He enlisted as a member of Company I, 25^th Infantry, and during all the time he was in the army, he held the post of fifer for his company. On one occasion he was quite seriously injured.

Mr. Huff came to this part of Michigan with his father in 1857. At that time a considerable company of families came to Michigan from Racine, Wisconsin, and the Huff family was among them. They settled on a farm near Ventura, and Mr. Huff has lived there ever since. It was on that same farm that death came to the old fifer.

The funeral of Mr. Huff was under the auspices of A. C. Van Raalte, G. A. R. Post. It took place Tuesday afternoon at one o’clock from the home and at 2 o’clock from the M. E. church at Ventura. The members of the G. A. R. Post were requested to meet Tuesday forenoon at 11 o’clock, for the purpose of attending the funeral in a body. M. P. Pilon officiated.

(Mr. Huff is buried in Lakeshore Cemetery.)