Tetherow

Barbara Ann Tetherow was born March 7th, 1845, in Union Star, Missouri. Her parents, George and Ellen (Moore) Tetherow had moved their family to that area . She would marry Pryor Pennington on Christmas Eve, 1860. She was Pryor's second wife, as his first wife had died and left him with two sons. Barbara gave Pryor an additional 16 children. Pryor and Barbara moved to Oklahoma and homesteaded a place in Blaine County. She died on June 4th, 1910.
George Tetherow, son of Michael and Barbara Dettero, was born in Tennessee. His father died when he was less than two years old. George married Ellen Moore and fathered 8 children by her. By 1854, George and family were living in DeKalb County, Missouri. George tried to found a village on Third Fork and called it Doodlesville, in honor of Evan Doodle. The village became a noted trading post with a promising future until the railroad being built was located too far away. The town was relocated and renamed Tetherton. Eventually, the name was changed to Stewartsville, to honor Missouri Governor Robert M. Stewart. George and Ellen celebrated their 50th anniversary just a few short months before her death. Only five months later, he married Martha. It appears that his children were quite unhappy about this union. His name is not found after November 13th, 1883. He died sometime prior to 1897.
Michael Dettero was the oldest of 13 children born to John and Mary (Hoffman) Dettero, born in 1777 at the height of the Revolutionary War. His live, however, would only last 36 years. He married Barbara Shrum and began their family of nine children between 1800 and 1813. On a trip from Alabama to Missouri, Michael died. His oldest son, Solomon, persuaded Rev. Henry Weedin to take in himself, two younger brothers and a sister. It is likely that Barbara returned to North Carolina, the place of her birth, with the five smaller children. She apparently remarried, in 1815, to a George Dyer. It is undoubtedly due to the death of Michael that of the nine children, there are three spellings and pronunciations of the name...Tetherow, Tithero and Dudrow.
John Dettero came across the ocean on the Pennsylvania Packet and landed in Philadelphia on October 6, 1768. He indentured himself to Jacob Hoffman for seven years to pay for his passage. John and the Hoffmans stayed temporarily in Pennsylvania with some Hoffman relatives before moving on to Virginia. In the meantime, John fell in love with Jacob's daughter Mary and they were married in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia about 1775 or 1776. Their stay in Virginia was short as they moved to North Carolina where they made a permanent home.