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MOSES R. KETTERMAN, farmer, P. O. Fincastle. Zebedee Ketterman, father of our subject, was born in February, 1820, in Ross County, Ohio. About the year 1821, his parents, Christopher and Sarah Ketterman, settled in Eagle Township, Brown County, near where our subject now resides. On April 22, 1841, he married Nancy Sams, born July 7, 1820. To them were born five children; two of whom are still living — Christopher and Moses R. She died January 9, 1849; he then married Rachel Snider, by whom he had four children, viz.: Hiram S., Catherine V., Martha E. and John C. F. She died February 14, 1863. Mr. Ketterman served as Justice of the Peace for several terms. On May 21, 1858, he accidentally met with his death in a saw mill at Swamp Fox in Washington Township. Moses R. Ketterman was born in May. 1843, in this township, and received but a limited education. In July, 1865, he married Sarah E. Parish, by whom he had four children, three of whom are still living — Nora A., Nettie M. and Elizabeth G. She died in August, 1875. He subsequently married Perthena Hays, who still, with him, shares the sorrows as well as the joys and comforts of married life. When sixteen years of age, he began to learn carpentering, which he followed some fourteen years. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Sixth Ohio Cavalry, which subsequently merged into the Eleventh, which operated principally in the Rocky Mountains against the Indians. He was engaged in several hotly contested battles, and received an honorable discharge in April 1865. Mr. Ketterman is recognized as one of the leading agriculturists of Eagle Township in the western portion of which township he at present resides.