KITTERMAN, SAMUEL ANCIL

KITTERMAN, PETER, TEETRICK, DANNER, MEIXEL, HARTER, FISHBURN, CLASS, ADER, SAUER, ENLOW, MATTHEWS, WEST, WILSON, HEDGES, MCCULLOCK, RUDDLE, CLARK, MYERS, WHIPPLE, WHARTON, FETTERLY, MARTIN, SANDERS, KIBLER

Posted By: Virginia Perry (email)
Date: 11/3/2001 at 13:22:59

SAMUEL ANCIL KITTERMAN

SAMUEL ANCIL KITTERMAN, was born December 31, 1845 in Bureau County, Illinois, while his parents were en route to Iowa from Perry County, Indiana. In June, 1846, they arrived in Wapello County, Iowa and SAMUEL KITTERMAN has since made his home within its borders. His father, HENRY KITTERMAN, was a native of Virginia and the son of PETER KITTERMAN and MARY MAGDALENA KITTERMAN. PETER KITTERMAN was a native of York County, Pennsylvania and MARY MAGDALENA was a native of Frederick County, Maryland.
PETER KITTERMAN was the son of MICHAEL KITTERMAN and CATHARINA TEETRICK, Eight other children were born to MICHAEL and CATHARINA; JACOB, SUSANNA, ANNA MARIA, CATHARINA, ELIZABETH, MICHAEL, REBECCA and ANNA.
MARY MAGDALENA KITTERMAN was the daughter of HENRY KITTERMAN and ANNA DANNER. Twelve other children were born to HENRY and ANNA(DANNER) KITTERMAN; ANNA, HENRY, JOHN, HANNAH, SUSANNA, GEORGE WASHINGTON, WILLIAM, MICHAEL, CHRISTOPHER, ZACHARIAH, ELIAS, and PETER.

It was CHRISTOPHER KITTERMAN, the great-great grandfather of our subject who became the founder of the family in the new world. When a young man he crossed the Atlantic to the United States with his sister, CATHARINA and brothers, GEORGE and JOHAN GEORGE. He married a lady named Christina and they were the parents of seven children; MICHAEL, married CATHARINA TEETRICK, CATHARINA, married GEORGE MEIXEL, MARIA, maried GEORGE HARTER, SUSANNA, married JOHN FISHBURN, ELIZABETH married JOHANNES CLASS and ADAM ADER, HENRY married ANNA DANNER and JOHN married JULIANNA SAUER. CHRISTOPHER and CHRISTINA KITTERMAN raised their children in Frederick County, Maryland. In 1794 they moved to Franklin County, Virginia where CHRISTOPHER died in 1806 and CHRISTINA in 1809.

HENRY KITTERMAN, the father of our subject, was born in Franklin County, Virginia, removed westward to Indiana in pioneer times and in that state was married to ELIZABETH ENLOW, a native of Indiana. They were the parents of three children;
PHILLIP THOMAS, MIDDLETON and MARY JANE. PHILLIP married MARGARET SMITH MATTHEWS, a widow with five children and lived in Tracy, Iowa. MIDDLETON died in 1846 and was the first person buried in the KITTERMAN CEMETERY in Wapello County, Iowa.
MARY JANE married JOSEPH WEST and moved to Washington.

ELLIZABETH died and HENRY married her sister ABIGALL ENLOW in Bureau County, Illinois, ELIZABETH and ABIGAIL ENLOW were the daughters of JOHN and JANE(PAISLEY) ENLOW.

HENRY KITTERMAN went to Elk County, Kansas, where he died in 1871 and is buried in the Longton Cemetery in that county. He was not only an enterprising farmer, but was also a good mechanic, displaying skill especially in working in wood and iron implements and his ingenuity was of great worth in the pioneer districts where settlers had to depend largely upon their own resources for all the comforts and conveniences they had.

The children of HENRY KITTERMAN and ABIGAIL are;
SAMUEL; married MARY OLIVE WILSON and lived in Wapello County; HENRY, who died at the age of two years; JAMES HENRY, who served for more then two years as a member of Company F, Seventh Iowa iInfantry in the Civil War and lived in Elk County, Kansas, married twice, first to CHARLOTTE HEDGES and second to BERTHA McCULLOCK; GEORGE WASHINGTON, who was a member of Company F. Seventh Iowa Infantry, and lived Muskegon, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois; CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, married CAROLINE RUDDLE and lived in Chicago, Illinois; LYDIA ANN, the wife of GRANT CLARK lived for a time in Elk County, Kansas. After GEORGE'S death LYDIA moved to Creston Iowa.;
ELIAS,married FRANCIS MYERS and lived in Elk County, Kansas; JEROME BONEPART, married FLORENCE WHIPPLE and live in Chillicothe, Iowa; ABRAHAM LINCOLN, married ALMIRA WHARTON and moved to Geddes, South Dakota, and HESTER ABIGAIL married JOHN FETTERLY and moved to Los Angeles, California.

SAMUEL KITTERMAN, broutht to Wapello County in his infancy, was reared upon the home farm. On the 17th of December 1861, he enlisted as a member of Company F, Seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, whith which he served until the close of the war, for three years and seven months, having veteranized at Pulaski, Tennessee. He enlisted when he was fifteen years of age, and while at the front he participated in the battles of Shiloh and Cornith, Mississippi, in many skirmishes and in the siege of Atlanta. On the 22d of July, 1864, he was in the engagement at Atlanta on that side of the army where McPerson fell at Lay's Ferry. In eighteen minutes there the command lost seventy-two men out of three hundred who had responded for duty. MR KITTERMAN
was with Sherman all the way through to Raliegh, North Carolina, and then on to Washington, where he participated in the Grand Review, the most celebrated military pageant ever seen in the western hemisphere. Thousands of victorious Union soldiers marched through the streets of the capitol and passed before the reviewing stand, where the president welcomed the returning Union forces. After the war MR KITTERMAN engaged in cradling wheat and engaged in farming until 1908.

On the 20th of February, 1868,MR KITTERMAN was united in marriage to MISS MARY O. WILSON, who was born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, in 1848, she died in December 1907. Seven children were born of that marriage; JENNIE MAY, married PHILLIP MARTIN and MR CRAWFORD and lived in Ottumwa; JOHN HENRY married MATTIE SANDERS and lived in Bend, Oregan; GEORGE GRANT, married JULIA KIBLER and lived in Ottumwa; SAMUEL ANSEL, married ADA PEARL WILSON and live in Ottumwa; OLA A married three times, WILLIAM YOUNG, MR CLOVER, AND WILLIAM DENTON and moved to Bend, Oregan; ORIN ALEXANDER, married JENNIE EDWARDS and lived in Niobrara, Nebraska and finally moved to Big Pine, California; ALTA RHETTA, the wife of CHARLES E ABRAMS lived in Washington, All of the children were born on the home farm in Richland township.

SAMUEL KITTERMAN has given his political support to the Republican party, hel held the office of constable and justice of the peace. He was a school director in Richland township for nine years. He and his wife were member of the Presbyterian church. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the subordinate lodge and encampment of Odd fellows.

SAMUEL deid July 25, 1925 at the home of his son SAMUEL ANCEL KITTERMAN,who was at that time living in the Wapello County Poor Farm as he was the Superintendent of that facility.
SAMUEL was buried with full military honors and he and MARY OLIVE are buried in the Otumwa Cemetery in Wapello County, Iowa.