Amanda Jane Jeter and John W. Lilly
Amanda (sometimes Amandia) Jane Jeter, the third daughter of
William Griffin Jeter and Elizabeth McCutchen Berry, was born
5/15/1841 on the family farm between Petersburg and Atterbury,
Illinois in Menard County. She married John W. Lilly, a
native of Kentucky, on 2/14/1861 in Livingston County, Missouri
with the following issue: Orrin, William, Harriet, Martha, Edward,
Charles and Johnny. (I have no information on these offspring;
in fact, Amanda's family is the only branch of the WGJ family
with whom I have not been able to establish contact. Working
on locating some descendants in the Santa Cruz area as a Thelma
Lilly sent the telegram from Santa Cruz notifying Mayo E. Jeter
of his brother Will's death, and there are other indications that
not only did Harriet follow her brother to California but perhaps
some of Amanda's children as well.)
John W. Lilly, who was born on 8/1/1828 in Kentucky, died in Chillicothe,
Livingston Co., MO on 10/2/1892 and is interred in the Jones Cemetery,
a short distance east of Chillicothe. (Also buried in that
cemetery are my Somerville great-great-grandparents)
Amanda J. Lilly apparently went to live with one of her children
in the Elk City, Oklahoma area as we find her grave there in the
Fairlawn East cemetery. She died 1/20/1914.
Submitted by C. Victor Jeter, August 9, 1999
