John P. Jeter and Sarah Emaline
Rose
Sarah M. Foster, 1st wife, not shown
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The oldest of the surviving sons of William Griffin Jeter and
Elizabeth McCutchen Berry, John Preston Jeter was born on
the family farm between Petersburg and Atterbury in Menard Co.,
lL on 7/27/1836.
He was first married to Sarah Martha Foster on 1/1/1861 in Grundy
Co., MO, the Rev. J. W. French, Cumberland Presbyterian minister
officiating. Their issue: Elizabeth L. (1862-1934)
who married Robert E. Cranmer; and Anna M.(1866-after 1927) who
married ___?___Nash. The Cranmers remained in Livingston
Co., MO; Anna Nash lived at one time in Spokane, WA and in Corvallis
and Portland, OR.
Sarah Martha Foster was born in Illinois on 12/21/1838 and died
on 11/28/1868. She was buried in the Union (Drummond) cemetery
in Grundy County. A gravestone existed and was noticed in
the 1960s where someone had leaned it against a tree, but
it had disappeared by the 1990s.
John Preston married a second time on 11/25/1869 to Sarah Emaline
Rose in Daviess Co., MO, the Rev. Thomas Montgomery officiating.
The issue from this marriage: Mary Minnie(1871), Mattie
E. (1873), Sarah Exie (1876), Ollie Rosa (1879) and John Ernest
(1881). Minnie married Frank Marion Cole and lived
in Gig Harbor, WA. Mattie married W. D. (Dick) Gibson and
lived in Pauls Valley, OK. Exie married Charles A. Armstrong
and lived in Oklahoma City. Ollie married Enoch A. Davis
and lived in Oklahoma City as well. John Ernest Jeter married
Callie A. King and lived in Franklin Co., AR, Oklahoma City and
Enid, OK.
John Preston Jeter served in the 44th Regiment of Missouri Infantry
during the Civil War. He first enrolled as member of Co. B, 30th
Regiment of Missouri Militia on 4/30/1864 and then volunteered
at Trenton, MO for regular service on 9/1/1864 and was mustered
into Company "I" of the 44th. His muster-in roll
describes him as having gray eyes, dark hair, a fair complexion
and a height of 5' 11". The 44th saw action in the the
battles of Franklin and Nashville, and in Alabama, the campaign
against Mobile, the siege of Spanish Fort, and the assault
and capture of Fort Blakely. The latter was the last infantry
battle of the war. He and the 44th were mustered out of Federal
Service on 8/15/1865 at St. Louis, MO.
John Preston Jeter died on 7/9/1913 in Oklahoma City, OK and rests
in Fairlawn Cemetery in that city. His 2nd wife, Sarah Emaline
Rose, born 10/24/1845 in Blue Mound, Illinois, died on 11/22/1920
and rests beside him. John was a farmer, Republican and a
Presbyterian.
Submitted by C. Victor Jeter, August 9, 1999
Gravestone of John Preston Jeter and his
second wife, Sarah E. Rose. Located in Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma
City, OK
© 1999, N.Baily