Jeter, William G.

Born: 1807-09-20 Louisville, Kentucky

Died: 1867-08-31 Livingston County, Missouri

Flourished: 1832-1836 Menard County, Illinois

Alternate name: Jeeter

By 1832, Jeter had settled in an area of Sangamon County, Illinois, that would later become Menard County. In 1850, he was working as a farmer with his wife Elizabeth and six children and owned $1,000 in real estate.

Gravestone, Edgewood Cemetery, Chillicothe, MO; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Menard County, IL, 314; Petition of Mentor Graham and Others to the Sangamon County Commissioners’ Court.