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Title: A history of northeast Missouri
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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s not only a Methodist minister of note, but is also the postmasterof the village. He is now a man of over seventy years, yet accomplishesmore work than many men of fewer years. He bears a war recordthat is one to be envied, having been in the thick of the fighting through-out the war, and after the close of the war his life on the frontier as amission minister affords an example of courage and loyalty that isseldom to be found. He has lived in Lemonville for the past seventeenyears, and during twelve of these has served as postmaster. The Rev. Elias Peterman was born in Westmoreland county, Penn-sylvania, on February 11, 1841. His parents were George and Rosa(Slater) Peterman, his father being a native of Switzerland and hismother a Pennsylvanian by birth. The region where Elias Petermangrew up was mountainous and his father was a tiniberman. The latterwas twice married and by his first marriage had six children: Joseph,Jacob, George, William, Tena and Nancy. His second wife was Rosa
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S y^ /ho^^*^^^ HISTORY OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI 1377 Slater and they became the parents of Joana, Josiah and Elias, who weretwins and W. S. Smith. All of these children, with the exception ofTena and Elias, are dead. When Elias Peterman was twenty-seven years of age he came andsettled in Centreville, Iowa, but previous to this came his Civil warexperiences. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted, being inApril, 1861, in Company A, of the Thirteenth Ohio Regiment, hisarrival in Ohio having been only two months previous. He saw serv-ice all during the war, most of this being in the southwest. He tookpart in the battles of Carnifex Ferry, in Virginia; Shiloh; Stone river;Murfreesboro; Lovejoy Station; Nashville, when General Hood wascaptured; Missionary Ridge; Lookout Mountain: Chickamauga andcountless smaller engagements. He was under constant tire for onehundred and twenty days during one period of his service. After thebattle of Missionary Ridge his term of enlistment expired, but in spi

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