John YETTER

Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Abigail Frances SYLVESTER

(1) Jewell family records. Speculates that the location may have been Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin, USA

  1. Charles YETTER
  2. Herbert Irving YETTER
  3. Elmer Charles YETTER
  4. Clarence YETTER
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Notes

Updated January 25, 2014. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1860 United States Census for Minnesota, Wabasha Co., Town 108 R 11 - Plainview (Plainview Post Office): Page 40; June 18, 1860.

John YETTER is head of household, married to Abby F. [SYLVESTER] YETTER. He is 23 years old, a farmer with real estate valued at $800 and personal estate valued at $300, and was born in Ohio. Their household includes their son Charles. Abby's brother Franklin SYLVESTER and family live in the adjacent household, and her brother George W. SYLVESTER and family lives two household away on the other side.

(2) National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailor System Search by Soldier Name (database).

John YETTER, Co. H, 6th Minnesota Infantry. Rank In = Private, Rank Out = Private. Film Number M546 roll 10. During the period of his enlistment, this unit served in engagements with the Sioux and other Indian nations on the Minnesota and Dakota frontiers, and escorted supply trains to various remote outposts.

(3) American Civil War Soldiers via Ancestry.com

- Name: John YETTER
- Enlistment Date: 10 August 1862
- Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
- Side Served: Union
- State Served: Minnesota
- Unit Numbers: 1155 1155
- Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 10 August 1862 at the age of 25; Enlisted in Company H, 6th Infantry Regiment Minnesota on 10 August 1862; Received a disability discharge Company H, 6th Infantry Regiment Minnesota on 11 July 1863.

(4) 1865 Minnesota State Census, Wabasha Co.: June 1, 1865.

Jno. YETTER is listed with his wife Abbie F. [SYLVESTER] YETTER and presumably children H. H., Chas. and Ann YETTER plus an otherwise unidentified individual, Horace BALL.

(5) 1870 United States Census for Minnesota, Winona Co., Town of Whitewater: page 1; dwelling 1; family 1; August 3, 1870.

John YETTER, head of household, is married to Abbey F. [SYLVESTER] YETTER. He was born in Indiana, is 33 years old and is a farmer with real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $400. He is eligible to vote. Children listed in the household are: Herbert J. and Charles E. The family lives next to another YETTER family -- headed by Charles YETTER, aged 55 -- relationship unknown.

(6) 1875 Minnesota State Census, Olmsted Co., Cascade: June 1, 1865.

John YETTER is head of household, married to A. F. [SYLVESTER] YETTER. He is 38 years old and born in Indiana with his parents born in Maine. Children in the household are H. E., E. C., and F. A. YETTER.

(7) 1880 United States Census for Minnesota, Olmsted Co., Cascade: Supervisor's District 1; Enumeration District 208; page 7; June 11, 1880.

John YETTER (listed as "Yelter") is head of household, married to Abbe [SYLVESTER] YETTER. He is 43 years old and a farmer. He was born in Indiana, his father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother was born in New Jersey. Children in the household are Herbert, Elmer and Clarence.

(8) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC., p. 2.

(9) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership record 569548 (issued 1972).

(10) Jewell family records. June 28, 2002.

- "John YETTER also joins Company H, Sixth Minnesota Infantry Regiment, with his brother-in-law Franklin [SYLVESTER]… he was discharged with his Company in August 1865, still a private."
- "Rochester, Olmstead Co., [MN]... where he died in May, 1883 (46 years)."