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John Pett

Birth	:	27 Sep 1824 Staffordshire, England
Death	:	11 Sep 1913 Union Township, Crawford County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	St. Peter's Churchyard, Formby, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, England
Coordinate	:	53.5663834, -3.0594721
Inscription	:	88 years, 11 months, 14 days
Description	:	Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac counties, Iowa CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1893. pages 303-304 JOHN PETT, who resides on section 36 of Union township, Crawford county, Iowa, his post office being Dow City, is well known in this vicinity and stands high as a man of worth and influence. Following is a brief resume of his life: Mr. Pett, like many of our most estimable citizens, came here from England. He was born in Staffordshire, England, September 27, 1824, son of William and Hannah (Gaskins) Pett, natives of England. His father was born in Kent.... Read More	Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac counties, Iowa CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1893. pages 303-304 JOHN PETT, who resides on section 36 of Union township, Crawford county, Iowa, his post office being Dow City, is well known in this vicinity and stands high as a man of worth and influence. Following is a brief resume of his life: Mr. Pett, like many of our most estimable citizens, came here from England. He was born in Staffordshire, England, September 27, 1824, son of William and Hannah (Gaskins) Pett, natives of England. His father was born in Kent. Mrs. Pett was born in Warwickshire. Both parents passed their lives in England and died there, honored and respected by all who knew them. The father was a nurseryman and surveyor by occupation. He belonged to the Episcopal Church. The subject of our sketch was sent away to school until he was thirteen years old, at which time he entered a dry-goods store as clerk, remaining thus occupied four years. He then learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. In 1851 he came to the United States, landing at New Orleans, he went first to St. Louis, and then to Muscatine, Iowa, working at his trade a short time at both places. He then returned to St. Louis. This was during the cholera epidemic along the Mississippi river in 1852. The following year he went West and worked at his trade in Nevada and Utah, and in 1854 he came back to Iowa. Four years he lived at North Grove. In 1868 he came to his present farm of 160 acres, known as the Edmond Howorth, Sr., farm, and one of the finest improved ones in this part of the county, a portion of it being prairie and the rest timber land. As prosperity attended his earnest efforts he bought more land, being now the owner of 525 acres of rich soil, and being classed with the most extensive landholders in the township. His house, a frame one, is one of the most solid and substantial in the neighborhood. It is commodious and comfortable, has beneath it a rock foundation and is surrounded by a pretty lawn, dotted over with trees and shrubs, and near by is a fine orchard and grove. His farm improvements are first-class and kept in good order, and his land is well watered and adapted for general farming and stock- raising. Mr. Pett was married at Birmingham. England, in 1845, to Miss Mary A. Ingram, who proved herself truly a worthy helpmate, and for forty-six years was the sharer of his joys and sorrows. She was born at Weston, in Oxfordshire, England, daughter of Samuel and Keziah (Coggins) Ingram. They had ten children, six sons and four daughters, namely: Mary Ann Shaw, a resident of this township; William Ingram; Oliver J. ; John M.; Keziah Jane, who died at the age of eight years; Samuel I.; Fanny L.; Ellen N. Young, of Shelby county, Iowa; George A.; Fred A.; Serena S. Young, of Grove township, Shelby county, Iowa. The great affliction of Mr. Pett's life was in the death of his beloved wife, July 11, 1892, aged sixty-six years, one month and one day. He and his family are members of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints, of which he is an Elder. Politically Mr. Pett is a Democrat. He has served efficiently as Assessor, Township Trustee and member of the School Board. He has traveled extensively, is a great reader and a close observer, and has a stock of general information. Such is a brief review of the life of one of the highly respected citizens of Crawford county. - - - - - - - - - - SOURCE: Roots of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints in Southern Iowa. By Pearl Wilcox. John and Mary Ann PETT, John was born in Eddingbury , England , December 27, 1824. His wife, Mary Ann, as born in Oxfordshire, England, where Mary Ann was baptized into the old church organization in 1849. (Married September 14, 1845) They journeyed to Utah in 1853 and, while living near Salt Lake City , were baptized into the Reorganized Church September 9, 1863, by E. C. Briggs. The family came to Iowa in 1864, locating in Shelby County and afterward in Crawford County . Here Mrs. Pett died July 11, 1892, at her home in Dow City . Elder John Pett died September 11, 1913, after serving the church for fifty years. He was survived by six sons and four daughters. - - - - - - - - - - JOHN PETT. Conspicuous among the early residents of Union township, Crawford county, where he has attained a position of prominence and affluence, is John Pett, whose birth occurred September 27, 1824, at Eddington, Warwickshire, near Stratford- on-Avon, England, the birthplace of the immortal Shakespeare. His parents were William and Hannah (Gascoyne) Pett, the former of whom was born in Seven Oaks, County Kent, situated a few miles from London, and there he followed the vocation of a nurseryman. The mother was born in Warwick. They were the parents of five children, of whom but two survive: John, of this review; and Thomas, who is a contractor and resides in England. The parents never left the old country but spent their entire lives there, the father dying in 1838 and the mother passing away in February, 1865. John Pett was educated in the Wiltshire and Dorchester schools, which he attended until twelve years of age, at which time his father died and he began the struggle for existence on his own account. His first position was in a dry- goods store, where he served an apprenticeship of four years, but being dissatisfied with that kind of work he gave it up and was on the police force for two years. He then learned the carpenter trade, which he followed until his departure from England in 1851. On March 4 of that year he sailed from Liverpool and on May 2 landed at New Orleans, whence he went to St. Louis and there worked at his trade for awhile but as cholera was raging in the city at that time he concluded to leave and proceeded to Muscatine, Iowa. After spending one summer in that city he returned to St. Louis and followed his trade for the succeeding two years. He next went to Utah and from there to Nevada, where he remained working at his trade for twelve years, at the end of which time he removed to Shelby county, Iowa, and in 1864 came to Union township, Crawford county, where he rented a farm for two years and then bought one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 26, only eighteen acres of which were broken. However, he continued to gradually improve the rest of the land and, as his financial circumstances would allow, added to his holdings until they now amount to two hundred and forty-five acres, which he utilizes for general farming and the raising of graded stock. His first venture in the latter industry was with hogs, which he sold in Council Bluffs, Iowa, then the nearest market. During his spare time he worked at his trade and helped to construct the first store of H. C. Laub, for whom he clerked at odd times. He saw the ground broken for the first railroad into Denison and has been an eye witness to almost all the improvements that have been made in Crawford county during the past forty-seven years.

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John Pett's memorial is located at: St. Peter's Churchyard, Formby, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, England.
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John Pett death on 11 Sep 1913 in Union Township, Crawford County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: 53.5663834
Longitude: -3.0594721

Family Members:

Spouse

Mary Ann Ingram Pett

(1826 - 1892)

Children

Oliver James Pett

(1852 - 1943)

John Moroni Pett

(1854 - 1927)

Kezia Jane Pett

(1856 - 1864)

Samuel Ingram “Sam” Pett

(1858 - 1932)

Fannie Louisa Pett

(1860 - 1930)

George Alexander Pett

(1864 - 1949)

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