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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JOSEPH FETTERS, justice of the peace, is a native of Ohio, born in Carroll, December 6, 1831. His father’s name was Jacob Fetters, born in Germany in 1806, and came to this country when but a boy, with his parents. Mother’s name was Mary A. Shoemaker, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1808. Squire Fetters came to Missouri with his parents in 1889, and settled in Scotland county, north Missouri, where he remained until 1869, going thence to Crawford county, Kan., remaining for four years, then coming to Jasper county. He settled in Webb City, in 1877, and has since resided here. Since being in Webb City he has engaged in mining, and very successfully. He was married in 1856 to Miss Elizabeth Myers of Scotland county, Mo. They have three children living; viz., Osmer, Joseph M., and James T. Mr. Fetters was elected justice of the peace in 1878, and has by his just decisions and pleasant demeanor so installed himself into the people’s graces that they will not allow him to retire from office. In politics he is a Democrat; in religions views, liberal. In 1860 he was a member (from Knox county) of the Clayborn F. Jackson legislature, but was elected on the Douglas ticket. He was a strong Union man and strenuously opposed to all acts tending toward secession.
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