genealogy

 of

 

  James YATES   &   Eliza Jane THOMPSON

 

 

(My wife’s genealogy and most interesting)

 

I’LL start in 1825 with

 

JAMES YATES

(never found a middle name)

 

born “near Harrodsburg” MERCER County Kentucky

 

I wish I could start with James’s Father & Mother.  Several of us working on this project think it is Joel Yates and Harriet Owens, son of James and Sara Sanford Yates of Mercer Co., KY.  But despite much research, we have no proof.  We are still trying to answer this question.  Maybe there will be a reader who has that little tangible bit of information to set us on the right path. (7-15-05 Wehave found proof now that Joel is our James father. I will up date this site later)  

 

The story handed down: “James’s mother and dad died of a contagious disease and he went to live with an uncle.”  This was written by a granddaughter.  She had an interest in genealogy and much of what we have to go on was set in her hand writing.

Eliza Jane signed her husband’s death certificate March 6, 1911. She said to whoever helped her fill out the form, that his parents were Joseph and Harriet Erby(?). The question mark is as it appears on the document.

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James first appears on Mercer County Kentucky records when he marries Eliza Jane Thompson 7 August 1847.  Her father Elijah Thompson was bondsman.  Nothing more has been found with his name in Kentucky and he shows up next in the 1850 census of Bates County Missouri with wife and first child Elijah Scott Yates. By 1860 and six children later, they have settled in Polk and Dallas County Missouri where they would remain the rest of their lives. 

 

From this union came eleven children. These children would marry into names like: CREGG, WALKER, STAFFORD, ROBINSON, COFER, WILSON, CHOATE, BRYAN, PIERCE  to name the first branch of this tree.
Then the next branch;  VANDERFORD, RODERCIK, KNIGHT, BARCLAY, WYNNE, FLETCHER, OWENSBY, MAYFIELD, DOKE, STARNES, RICHNER, KILLOAGH, MAYFIELD, SHETLER, HOLLIC, MILLER, GAMBLIN, COWDEN. 
We know very little about the second generation.  If you suspect you fit in here some where, welcome and come aboard.  E-mail me Fvieregge@aol.com.  (There are at least two other cousins with e-mail waiting for your letter)

 

 here is THAT YATES LOOK….