Lydia Izetta MIERS ¹

   Other names for Lydia were Mrs. Lydia Izetta BETTERTON and Mrs. Obidiah Jerome (Obe) BETTERTON.

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  General Notes:

Lydia and Obe ran the County Home (a residence for old, low income people
who can no longer care for themselves) in 1916 for a few years. This
data provided by their great-grandson, Vernon Orr, son of Edna Orr and
grandson of Marshall Betterton.

Lydia is buried in the cemetry north of Knoxville, Iowa.

Jacob Creager had no children of his own or they died young, so on Nov.
17, 1887, his heirs were from his sister's, Lydia Miers, children. Those
heirs are all grand-nephews and nieces of Jacob: (reference 4):

7. Isetta Betterton, age 25, Knoxville, Marion Co., Iowa

References: (1) Data about the Isaac Freeman Miers family, was provided
by Velta Miers Kunkel, Isaac's granddaughter and daughter of Joseph
Freeman Miers. (2) Data about Lydia and Obe and their family was found
on the Obe Betterton family genealogy internet site under the Family
Treemaker.com on the computer internet. Found by Lucille Webster on
August 26, 2000. (3) Vernon and Gloria Orr, Harvey, Iowa and Yuma,
Arizona, by letter to Lucille Miers Webster in November, 2000. (4)
Geneva, New York, newspaper article: A citation to appear in Surrogate's
Court in the Village of Geneva, New York, On Nov. 17, 1887, for the
probate of the last will and testament of Jacob Creager of Seneca,
Ontario County, NY. In the article, Jacob's heirs are listed.

Lydia married Obidiah Jerome "Obe" BETTERTON on 26 Mar 1881. (Obidiah Jerome "Obe" BETTERTON was born on 18 Nov 1854 in Wapello County, Iowa and died on 22 Feb 1942 in Knoxville, Marion, Iowa, USA.)