Andrew Clifford Fetters

   Another name for Andrew was Cliff.

  General Notes:

Uncle Cliff Fetters was town marshal of Conrad for nearly ten years, and was also one of Conrad's volunteer fireman. He also maintained an ice house, stocked with ice he cut in winter from Wolf Creek--the creek you cross if you enter Conrad from the west or the south. Uncle Cliff became a butcher with the Conrad firm of Fetters and Landphere. A terrified bull brought in to be butchered managed to kick uncle in the head. Cliff survived the accident, but developed severe headaches that would require he stop work and lie down. Doctors could do nothing for him. One noon in December 1908, he left the butcher shop and walked home for lunch. He told his wife he was going upstairs to take a foot bath before he ate. Shortly thereafter, Florence hear a gunshot. She ran upstairs to find her husband mortally wounded. He had stopped the headaches the only way he know how, with a pistol shot to the head using the revolver he had carried as town marshal. Florence and her younger daughter Madalin moved in with her parents, Samuel and Maria, on Washington Street--one block west of Main Street Conrad.

The red granite monument in the background is for the elder daughter Alta and her husband Charley Lister. The Lister's second son, stillborn on February 5, 1912, is also buried on this plot. And weren't the bearded blue iris beautiful this spring in Conrad Cemetery!

Andrew married Florence A. Coulter, daughter of Samuel Coulter and Maria Bash, on 29 Oct 1890 in Beaman, IA. (Florence A. Coulter was born on 17 Aug 1870 in Liscomb Township, Marshall County, Iowa, died on 27 Jun 1951 in Kansas City, Jackson Co, Missouri and was buried in Conrad, Iowa.)