Grandmother's Side
Iuen & Fetter History

    Jean Christian Iuen, my great-great-great grandfather, was born October 26, 1785, 232 years ago. His parents, Joseph and Barbe (Berthold) Iuen, were from the Tyrolean region of Austria.
    Sometime in his youth, Christian as he was known, moved to Belfort, France with his parents. When he was thirty-two he married Marguerite Natherer, the daughter of Francois and Marie Natherer of Belfort.
    Christian and Marguerite Iuen had eight children, three boys and five girls, all born in their home at #5 Fauborg du Magasin in Belfort, Alsace, France.
    Four of the girls died before the age of two and Marguerite died at the early age of forty-four. Marie Ursele (Ursala) Iuen was their only surviving daughter.
    Ursala was just ten years old when her father Christian set sail for America with his second wife Catherine and her three brothers, Francis, Joseph and Jean Baptiste. They arrived in New York on May 23, 1838 on the bark DIDO.
    Ursala married John Peter Fetter who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany in 1824, the son of Christopher and Agnes Fetter. Ursala and John Fetter are my great-great grandparents. They settled in Owensville, Ohio and had seven children.
    Their oldest son, John Christian, was born in August 1849. John Christian had a grocery and hardware store where he sold farm implements. His century-old store still stands. In 1983 it was moved to a restored 19^th century village in Sharonville, Ohio.
    Their second son, Joseph, was born on April 25, 1851. On May 2, 1875 he married Elmira Jane "Jennie" Ferree, daughter of Richard Feree and Nancy Snider. Joseph and Jennie Fetter are my great grandparents.
    Jennie's mother was the daughter of David Snider and Sarah Wilson.     

Great Grandparents
Joseph & Jennie (Ferree) Fetter

    However, little is known about Jennie's father, Richard Feree, except that he was captured by the Confederates in the Civil War during the battle of Chickamouga Creek.
    Richard Feree was imprisoned on September 19, 1863 at the dread Andersonville Prison in Georgia where he died, probably of starvation.
    Joseph and Jennie Fetter lived in Owensville, Ohio and had eight children. Clara Edith Fetter was their 7^th child, born January 27, 1892.
    Edith Fetter married Geroge Jacob Brown, a decendent of Peter and Elisabeth Craver, on June 3, 1915 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Edith Fetter and George Brown are my grandparents.

Grandfather's Side
Craver & Brown History

    In 1839 John Peter Craver and Sible Elisabeth (Zumbro) Craver set sail for America from the village of Tsisch, Kingdom of Prussia.
    Their voyage from Havre took sixty days as they encountered many storms. It was the spring of 1840 before Peter and Elisabeth arrived in Baltimore.
    Peter and Elisabeth Craver are my great-great grandparents. They had seven children and settled in

Milford, Ohio. Their oldest son, Jacob Craver, married Margaret Schmidt. Jacob and Margaret Craver had ten children. Their daughter, Rose, was born in 1869 and married Joseph Brown the son of Phillip Braun and Annamarie Seifert.
    Phillip Braun died when he was only thirty-four. However, his son Joseph became a sucessful banker and changed the family name from Braun to Brown to match it's American pronunciation.
    Joseph Brown and Rose Craver are my great grandparents. Their oldest son, George Brown, married Edith Fetter, daughter of Joseph and Jennie (Feree) Fetter (pictured), in Owensville, Ohio.
    George Brown and Edith Fetter are my beloved grandparents. They had four children, two sons, Joseph and Donald, and two daughters, Margaret and Rita.
    Their oldest child, son Joseph, died very young. Their youngest child, son Donald, survived World War II after being critically wounded during the Battle of the Bulge.
    Their youngest daughter, Rita, married Robert Brandner and their oldest daughter, Margaret, born April 2, 1920, married Richard Tyrrell, the adopted son of Charles Tyrrell and Julia Mitchell.
    Margaret "Peggy" and Richard Tyrrell are my parents. My father survived cancer in his thirties and lived into his sixties. My beautiful mom, Peggy, departed this life Dec. 15, 1995. Rest in peace, Mom.

Peggy & Her '62 Chevy II