The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
October 11, 1922
Page 3
Column 4Mrs. Stanton Bullock, of Kankakee, is making an extended visit with her mother, Mrs. Ellen Yetter, also her brother, Walter and family.
Hancock County Historical Society
Carthage, IllinoisObit 10
Page 19Mrs. Ellen Yetter
Contributed by Majorville Correspondent.
Mrs. Ellen Yetter passed away at the farm home of her brother, John Miller, south of Webster, Illinois, Tuesday, January 18, 1938, after several weeks of suffering from cancer of the stomach, at the age of 83 years, 9 months and 29 days.
Martha Ellen Miller Yetter was the daughter of John L. and Nancy Jane (Meyers) Miller, and was born in Vigo county, Indiana, near Terre Haute, March 19, 1854. She came to Illinois from Indiana when she was only two years old. She came with her parents in one of those old pioneer covered wagons. She was second eldest in a family of six daughters and four sons. Only three of this large family remain to mourn the loss of their sister. The living ones are: Walter J. and John L. Miller of Hancock township, Hancock county, Illinois, and Mrs. Mandy Gibson of California. When this family came to this country in 1856 they settled on the farm south of Webster, now occupied by the son, John, and family.
Here Martha Ellen grew to womanhood and was a pretty and popular bride at the age of twenty, when she married Charles A. Yetter, an industrious young farmer of Fountain Green township. To this union two sons and two daughters were born. Of these only Mrs. Mollie Bullock, of Newtonville, Mass., and Walter B. Yetter, who lives on the old family homestead, near Webster, are left to mourn the passing of their mother. Lewis M. died July 30, 1879, and Florence L. died on May 28, 1904. Mrs. Yetter's husband, Charles A. Yetter, died Oct. 14, 1920.
Mrs. Yetter also leaves to mourn her passing two grandchildren and three great grandchildren. A favorite granddaughter, Mrs. Cleta Yetter Schutte, of Fort Madison, Iowa, proceeded Mrs. Yetter in death on last November 1st. Friends of the family state that Mrs. Yetter never fully recovered from the shock of that sudden death.
Mrs. Yetter has been a life-long resident of the Webster-Fountain Green community, having lived more than fifty years at her present homestead. Her neighbors proclaim her to have been a good neighbor, a loving mother, and a hard-working, home-loving, honest woman. Indeed, they are sad for her passing.
"In all the world, so where you will
You'll never find another
Who'll cling to you through good or ill
And love you like a mother.
In all the world wherein you roam
With sister, wife or brother.
You'll never know so sweet a home
As that one made by mother
In all the world, where you in bliss
May soon forget another
There is no one whom you will miss
When she is gone, like mother."The funeral of Mrs. Yetter was held at Majorville church on Friday afternoon, Jan. 21, 1938, where a large number of relatives, friends and neighbors gathered to pay their last respects. The casket was covered with beautiful flowers. Pallbearers were Kenneth McConnell, George Latherow, Russell Meyers, Jabez Beebe, Guy and Gabe Ebert.
A quartette, namely; Arthur Spangler, Rubie Hobart, Kate Miller and Clem Ducy, with Adda Spangler Latherow at the piano, sang very beautifully, "Think of the Home Over There," "There'll Be No Dark Valley," and "We Are Going Down the Valley."
Rev. H. M. Bloomer of Macomb, preached a very peaceful and consoling sermon.
Mrs. Yetter has been failing in general health for many months, but was in her own home and cared for by her only son, Walter, until Christmas day, she was taken to the home of her brother, John Miller, to be with the Miller relatives for a dinner and visit. In just a few days she developed alarming symptoms and was visited by three physicians at different times, who agreed that the malady of cancer was very evident, and all the love, care and attention of this brother and his family in whose home she passed away, was given freely, hoping that she might rally and yet be spared to them a while longer. Another brother, Walter and wife were also at her bedside whenever help was needed, but she peacefully closed her eyes and was gone to her reward.
Mrs. Yetter was converted early in life and made a public confession when she and her husband joined the Methodist church in Fountain Green, under the ministry of Rev. H. M. Bloomer in 1900. She always lived a contented Christian life and often expressed her entire submission to the Father's will.
John Miller was ill the day of the funeral and was not able to attend, but is much better this week.
Hancock County Historical Society
Carthage, IllinoisSiegfried XIX
Page 298MRS. MARTHA YETTER
Mrs. Martha Ellen Miller Yetter, 83, of near Webster, died Tuesday evening, Jan. 18. Funeral services were held at Majorville church Friday afternoon, with the Rev. Mr. Bloomer of Macomb in charge.
Mrs. Yetter was born near Terre Haute, Ind., in 1854, and came to Illinois with her parents in a covered wagon two years later. In 1875 she was married to Charles A. Yetter and had made her home on the same farm, between Fountain Green and Webster, more than fifty years. Her husband died in 1920. She leaves two children, Mrs. Mollie Bullock of Newtonville, Mass., and Walter B. Yetter, who lives on the old family homestead.
Mrs. Yetter died at the home of her brother, John, south of Webster. Burial was in the family lot beside her husband and two children, in the Majorville cemetery.
