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When Dick Yeager returned to Westport, Missouri from a trip to Santa Fe as a foreman of one of his father's wagon trains, he found that Jennison and his Jayhawkers had already been there. In a single night the Yeager's farm and freighting business had been destroyed. The Jayhawkers had stolen thousands of dollars of furniture, horses and slaves. Some sheep and and about 50 cattle were all that was left. A few days later, the Kansans returned and finished the job. Vowing to get revenge, Dick immediately joined the Partisan Rangers. He fought in a number of engagements, including looting the town of Gardner, Kansas. He was present at the raids on Independence, Missouri and Lawrence, Kansas. His father was under arrest and sitting in a cell, partly because of his own statements supporting the South, and partly because of his son's deeds. James B. Yeager or Yager was a Circuit Court Judge in Jackson County and was in the state legislature for 2 years. Dick made the famous Council Grove raid 130 miles west of the Missouri state line on 4 May 1863 where he, with 23 others, formed up at the edge of town. To the relief of the town's people, only Yeager rode up, in desperate need of a dentist. The tooth was pulled with the agreement that the town be spared. The rebels then rode off to sack the town of Diamond Springs, then returning to Missouri, leaving a trail of death and destruction behind them. Dick Yeager was severely wounded while participating in a raid by about 200 guerrillas led by George Todd against Arrow Rock, southeast Saline County, on 20 July 1864. Some of Todd's men took Yager to near New Frankfort, northeast Saline County, and turned him over to the Ike Flannery family living there in exile from Jackson County because of General Order Number 11. (See Newspaper Article) About two weeks later Union
troops found the wounded Yeager and killed him on 1 August 1864. Union
authorities only determined the correct identity of the man they killed
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The Family 1. JAMES
BANES1
YAGER
was born July 19, 1809 in Washington County, Kentucky, and died August 28,
1883 in Jackson County, Missouri.
He married MARY
JANE
BERRY
September 29, 1839 in Washington County, Kentucky. She was born September 14, 1812 in
Washington County, Kentucky, and died November 25, 1883 in Jackson County,
Missouri. Notes
for JAMES
BANES
YAGER: James
B. Yager was a Circuit Court Judge in Jackson County, Missouri and was in
the state legislature for 2 years. The
surname is spelled both Yeager and Yager on
records.
Children
of JAMES
YAGER
and MARY
BERRY
are: 2.
i.
RICHARD
FRANCIS
(DICK)2
YAGER,
b. March 28, 1839, Jackson County, Missouri.
ii.
MARY
RACHEL
YAGER,
b. Abt. 1845, Jackson County, Missouri; d. October 05, 1862, Jackson
County, Missouri. 3.
iii.
LOUISA
MARGUERITE
YAGER,
b. June 29, 1849, Jackson County, Missouri. Generation
No. 2 2. RICHARD
FRANCIS
(DICK)2
YEAGER
(JAMES
BANES1)
was born March 28, 1839 in Jackson County, Missouri, and died 1 August
1864 i Saline County, Mo. He
married MARTHA
JANE
MUIR
December 22, 1860 in Jackson County, Missouri. She was born July 16, 1843 in
Missouri, and died October 30, 1923 in Jackson County,
Missouri. Notes
for MARTHA
JANE
MUIR: After
the death of Dick Yager, Martha remarried in 1866 to Edward West.
They
had a son, Noah. In 1870, they were in Jackson
County.
Child
of RICHARD
YEAGER
and MARTHA
MUIR
is:
i.
MARY
LOUISA3
YEAGER,
b. September 27, 1861. 3. LOUISA
MARGUERITE2
YEAGER
(JAMES
BANES1)
was born June 29, 1849 in Jackson County, Missouri. She married WILLIAM
BERNARD
HAMILTON
January 20, 1869 in Jackson County, Missouri. He was born March 30, 1845 in
Missouri. Notes
for WILLIAM
BERNARD
HAMILTON: Living
in Pueblo, Colorado in 1880 and 1900.
Child
of LOUISA
YEAGER
and WILLIAM
HAMILTON
is:
i.
JAMES
YEAGER3
HAMILTON,
b. February 07, 1872, Missouri; m. MINNIE
D.;
b. Abt. 1869, Iowa. Notes
for JAMES
YEAGER
HAMILTON: Went
to Wood River, Klamath, Oregon.
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