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Born 28 November 1844, Union County, Pennsylvania
The tie, exactly: settler of Harris Township from about 1872 — born in Union County, Pennsylvania, on 28 November 1844 to George and Elizabeth (Keely) Shetterly; carried as a boy to Portage Prairie in Berrien County, Michigan, about 1854, then to Ontwa Township; and settled in Harris Township about 1872, spending the last twenty-five years before Howard wrote on a farm of eighty-four acres in Section 8, on the state line.
The course: Shetterly worked the mason's trade alongside his farming — the township's trades, in the record, are usually doubled with farms this way. He married first Malinda Rogers in 1866 (she died about 1873) and second Sarah Eliza Griffith on 29 December 1880 — a Griffith marriage that ties his line to the state-line family above, at the record's strength and no further.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), vol. 2, biographical sketches — the Shetterly sketch whole.