Re: Jacob Fether b. 1814, PA
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Re: Jacob Fether b. 1814, PA
6/17/01
Hi Bev,
Williams County is adjacent to Fulton and I wondered if the man below is related to your folks.It is a reprint of a letter from Tom Fetters of Illinois.Archbold and Edon are almost on a straight line east to west.Neither yours nor this John C Fetters is obviously in my direct line though I have not ruled them out.My Fetter line was in Lancaster County, PA in 1777, and after went to VA (WV after 1820) then to Indiana.I suspect a stopover in Ohio before 1838, but have no data to this.I have always been curious of John below, as my sister now lives in Pioneer, Ohio.
Regards,
Dan Fetters
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JOHN C. FETTERS / NELLIE MUNN
He is the 6th child of 11 children of George Fetters (1829-1900) and Hester Fetters (1834-1906) of Williams Co, OH.
His real name is John C Fetters (1862-1894).
He married in 1894 to Nellie Munn (1867-1894).
Did you notice the similarity in dates?
It is no coincidence.
The wedding took place on September 12, 1894 at 7 in the evening. An hour later they left for the home of his uncle, Martin Fix, some three miles south of Edon, Ohio. Riding in a carriage pulled by a single horse, they passed through Edon and came to the track of the Wabash Railroad.
As they crossed, they were struck by the eastbound fast express killing the horse, demolishing the carriage and leaving the young couple "crushed and bleeding"
They were picked up and returned to the village where Nellie died at one in the morning and Clem died later at 5, before dawn.
Some 1200 people came to the funeral which marked the most tragic happening in the county up to that time.
Wait.
There is another version of the story.
The Bryan Democrat says that the carriage was struck by the eastbound fast passenger at 8:20 instead of the 8:30 train above (from the Bryan Press). "Fetters and his wife were thrown nearly sixty feet, the carriage torn to flinders and the horse so badly injured as to prompt dispatch to put him out of his misery." The couple were returned to the home of the brides mother and Fetters died at midnight and his wife five hours later.
They were buried together in a single grave "In life they were united, in death they were not divided".