Fetterman, Clarence W. 1858-1931

FETTERMAN, SAYLES

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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
July 14, 1931

GRADUATED IN AKRON SCHOOLS
Clarence Fetterman Was Member of the First Class in the Eighties

Funeral services were held at Akron in the Methodist church for C. W.
Fetterman, a pioneer resident of that section, who died following an
operation for a ruptured appendix. The pallbearers were W. W. Burrill, Frank
F. Kerr, Max Pollock, Boyson Ross, Clarence Aalfs and Ole Lawrence.

The burial rites of the Masonic order were exemplified in Riverside
Cemetery, in charge of V. G. Adams. Interment was in the family lot.

Clarence William Fetterman, son of Jesse and Charlotta Sayles Fetterman, was
born near Lodi, Ohio, May 30, 1858. When a lad of eleven years he came to
South Dakota, then Dakota Territory, with his parents in the early summer of
1869, and lived on a farm near Elk Point. In the fall of the same year they
located on the homestead, southwest of Akron, which has since remained the
family home. After completing the course in the rural schools of his home
community, he enrolled in the Akron graded school in the late seventies and
was a member of the first graduating class of the Akron high school in 1880.

After graduating, he taught in the rural schools of Union county and later
took up telegraphy, holding a position as operator in Sioux Falls, S.D. he
returned to the home farm and had since resided there. Mr. Fetterman was a
man of studious nature and retentive mind, a wide reader and an unusually
interesting and entertaining conversationalist. A man of integrity,
honorable in all his dealings and of a genial nature, he made many lasting
friendships, and by his habits of industry and thrift he accumulated a
comfortable competency.

The immediate surviving relatives are: Mrs. Edith Danks, of Ardmore, Okla.,
the only child of Cassius Fetterman; Mrs. Frances Fetterman Watson, of New
York City; Charlotte Fetterman, Jesse Fetterman and Paul Fetterman, of
Omaha, Neb., and Donald Fetterman, of Chicago, all children of Albert
Fetterman; Mrs. Otis Maynard, Miss Hattie Sayles and Frank Sayles, of Akron
vicinity, are cousins.