Martha Elizabeth David (1830 - 1897)

Born 25 Feb 1830 in Morgan, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Jackson Yates — married 25 Feb 1853 in Gentry (Worth), Missouri

Died 13 Mar 1897 at age 67 in Gravelly, Yell, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth was born in 1830 in Indiana. Her parents were Jeremiah Sterling David and Susannah Prather. The David family moved from Indiana to Gasconade, Missouri before 1840. In the mid to late 1840s, Jeremiah David, his brother Lewis David, and some neighbors moved their families to the northwest part of Missouri, to Gentry County and what would become Worth Co. One such neighbor was Alexander P Yates, whose son James married Elizabeth’s older sister around 1847 and had their first child in 1848 in Gentry/Worth. In 1850 though, Jeremiah David though had moved his family to Pottawattamie, Iowa, on the Missouri River, opposite Omaha, in the business of supplying steamboats with wood (see census, Elizabeth at age 19). The family probably had returned to Gentry by 1853, when Elizabeth married Andrew Jackson Yates (1829-1885).

Elizabeth and Andrew had four surviving children born to them over the next 10 years, while they lived near Andrew’s parents in Gentry/Worth Co. During the Civil War, Andrew served for the Union, from 1863 to 1865 with the Union Missouri Cavalry. By 1868, the family had moved to Arkansas, the Upper Lafave (Bluffton) area of Yell County. Andrew’s father, Alexander P Yates, came to live with them in the late 1870s.

In 1885 Andrew was murdered by a hired hand. (See Andrew’s profile.) In 1890 Elizabeth filed for a widow’s military pension. She passed away in 1897, in Gravelly, Yell, Arkansas.

Children

• Alexander Peter (Alec, Alex) Yates, b. 9 Nov 1854, d. 17 Nov 1937. Married Nancy Ann Missouri Crawley (2 Apr 1863 - 22 Nov 1904); 10 children.
• Mary Elizabeth Yates, b. 15 Jun 1856, d. 19 Nov 1856.
• Sarah Jane Yates, b. 30 Sep 1857 or 1860, d. after 1900. Married Nathan R. Start (Mar 1852 - after 1900); 5 children.
• Nelly or Nellie Ann Yates, b. 7 Sep 1859 or 1860, d. - 7 Dec 1949. Married William Walker Thompson (17 Mar 1857 - 19 Oct 1941); 1 child.
• Lucinda Melviny Yates, b. 12 Jun 1861, d. 25 Nov 1907. Married George Hughes Crawley (13 Sep 1856 - 9 Feb 1936); 8 children.

Sources

• 1850 U.S. Census, Pottawattamie, Pottawattamie Co, Iowa. House 396. Elizabeth, 19, born in Indaina, in the household of Jeremiah David, 44, Virginia, and Susanna, 42, Kentucky, with 6 other children.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #51604471 for Martha Elizabeth David.