John Yeager Jr (1798 - 1882)

Born 18 Sep 1798 in Pocahontas County Virginia USA

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Prettyman (Beauchamp) Yeager — married 28 Oct 1819 in Pike, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 13 Apr 1882 at age 83 in West Point Tippecanoe County Indiana, USA

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Biography

John P. Yeager, Jr

b: Sep. 18, 1798 Pocahontas County West Virginia, USA d: Apr. 13, 1882 West Point Tippecanoe County Indiana, USA

John Yeager was the son of John P. and Pheobe Anise/Anastasia Hull Yeager. His siblings were: Jacob, Sarah, Elizabeth, Andrew, Phoebe, Susannah, Rachel and Mary (Polly). They were from Pocahantas County, Virginia.

John Yeager married Margaret Pentzam Beauchamp on Oct 28,1819 in Pike County, Ohio. They lived in Fountain, Wayne and Tippecanoe counties in Indiana. They had the following children: John Beauchamp, Andrew Jackson (died young), Mary H.(died young), Elizabeth (Campbell, and then possibly Barker), George Washington, and Asbury (not proven and died young).

Margaret and John Yeager divorced and he married Elizabeth Esget Scott in 1860. In the 1880 Census he is living in Warren, Indiana with his daughter Elisabeth Barker and listed as widowed. His burial site is next to Margaret's.

Sources

Source: An American Family; Elizabeth Prettyman Beauchamp obituary; letters of Wilma (Beard) Harper; written by Nancy Hagood, great great granddaughter of James P. and Elizabeth Beauchamp (Yeager)Campbell.

Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 01 October 2018), memorial page for John Yeager, Jr (18 Sep 1798–13 Apr 1882), Find A Grave Memorial no. 158697518, citing Kiser Cemetery, West Point, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by Nancy Hagood (contributor 47381031) .

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