Person:Zebedee Ketterman (1)

Zebedee Ketterman was killed on Friday morning, May 21, 1858, by being accidentally caught in the Fly Wheel of his Saw Mill. His head was badly crushed, causing his death in a few minutes.

Son of: Christopher Stoeffel Ketterman 1794 – 1849 Sarah (Davis) Ketterman 1797 – 1835

Husband of: Nancy Sams (1820 - 1849) married 1841, Rachel Snyder (1832 - 1863) married in 1850.

Children: (Nancy) William D Ketterman 1842 – 1883 Moses Riggs Ketterman 1843 – 1888 Christopher Eli Ketterman 1844 – 1923 Sarah F Ketterman 1846 – 1876 George W Ketterman 1849 – 1849

Children: (Rachel) Hiram S Ketterman 1851 – 1933 Catherine V Ketterman 1853 – Martha Ellen Ketterman 1855 – 1930 John Charles Fremont Ketterman 1857 – 1922

Contributed by Richard Ketterman, 26 Nov 2014

Biographical Sketch from Beers 1883 History of Brown County, Ohio, pg. 226: MOSES R. KETTERMAN, farmer, P. O. Fincastle. Zebedee Ketterman, father of our subject, was born in February, 1820, in Ross County, Ohio. About the year 1821, his parents, Christopher and Sarah Ketterman, settled in Eagle Township, Brown County, near where our subject now resides. On April 22, 1841, he married Nancy Sams, born July 7, 1820. To them were born five children; two of whom are still living--Christopher and Moses R. She died January (, 1849; he then married Rachel Snider by whom he had four children, viz.: Hiram S., Catherine V., Martha E. and John C. F. She died February 14, 1863. Mr. Ketterman served as Justice of the Peace for several terms. On May 21, 1858, he accidentally met with his death in a saw mill at Swamp Fox in Washington Township. Moses R. Ketterman was born in May, 1843, in this township, and received but a limited education. In July, 1865, he married Sarah E. Parish, by whom he had four children, three of whom are still living--Nora A., Nettie M. and Eizabeth G. She died in August, 1875. He subsequently married Perthena Hays, who still, with him, shares the sorrows as well as the joys and comforts of married life. When sixteen years of age, he began to learn carpentering, which he followed some fourteen years. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Sixth Ohio Cavalry, which subsequently merged into the Eleventh, which operated principally in the Rocky Mountains against the Indians. He was engaged in several hotly contested battles, and received an honorable discharge in April 1865. Mr. Ketterman is recognized as one of the leading agriculturists of Eagle Township in the western portion of which township he at present resides. Contributed by Beverly Dunn, 12 April 2015.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106665098#