Casper Baltice Fetters II and
Eliza Ann Fetters appeared on the census of 1870 in Union Township, Wayne County, Iowa, which shows Casper B. Fetters, age 33, a farmer, owning real property valued at $2,000 and personal property valued at $560, born in Ohio, father foreign born; his wife Eliza A., age 29, keeping house, born in Illinois; daughter Clara V., age 9, born in Illinois; daughter Florence B., age 5, born in Illinois; son Carl, age 3, born in Illinois; and daughter Ireana, 4 months, born in Iowa.
Thus, the Casper B. Fetters II family apparently moved from Carroll County, Illinois, to Wayne County, Iowa, sometime between 1877 (when their son Carl was born in Illinois) and 1880 (when their daughter was born in Iowa).
5 He was a famer in 1870 in Union Township, Wayne County, Iowa.
5 He was a farmer in 1880 in Union Township, Wayne County, Iowa.
1 He and Eliza Ann Enochs appeared on the census of 15 July 1880 in Union Township, Wayne County, Iowa, which shows Casper Fetters, age 42, occupation farmer, born in Ohio, with his father born in Germany and his mother born in Pennsylvania; his wife Eliza, age 40, keeping house, born in Illinois, with her father born in Illinois and her mother born in North Carolina; their daughter Estella, age 17, born in Illinois; daughter Flora, age 15, born in Illinois (who two years later would marry David "Bryson" Dyer); son Carl, age 13, born in Illinois; daughter Ireana Fetters, age 10, born in Iowa; son Horatio, age 8, born in Iowa; son Freeman, age 6, born in Iowa; son Joseph (apparently named after his paternal grandfather), age 3, born in Iowa; and son Truman, age 11 months, born in Illinois.
Corydon is the county seat of Wayne County. Wayne County is the fifth county west of the Mississippi River and borders the Counties of Putnam to the southeast and Mercer to the south in Missouri, Decatur to the west, Lucas to the north, and Appanoose to the east. It is comprised of 36,000 acres and 525 sq. miles. It is rich in Historical value as the Mormons laid their trail through here in 1846, while making their way from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ran through here, gaining prosperity for its towns people, as well as the discovery of coal, which helped increase the population of the county as people began moving in. It contains the 16 townships of Warren, Jackson, Howard, Clinton, Medicine, Washington, Benton, Clay, Jefferson, Monroe, Corydon, Richman, Walnut, Grand River, South Fork and Union.
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