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Reason YEATER

Reason YEATER

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  • Name Reason YEATER
    Birth 10 Jul 1850  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male
    Census 1860  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • In household of his maternal grandparents, Benjamin & Sarah (Underwood) Yeater.
    Census 1870, 1880, 1900  McClellan District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • In 1870, he was in the household of his uncle, John Yeater. In 1920, he was listed as widowed and living in the household of his son Ezekiel.
    Census 1910  Grant District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • In the household of his half-brother Vincent Ash and his family. Marital status divorced.
    Census 1920  McClellan District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I61516  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 27 May 2020

    Mother Rachel YEATER,   b. 2 Dec 1830   d. 4 Dec 1879, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
    Family ID F42670  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Emeline SWIGER,   b. 13 May 1855, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4]
    Marriage 1 Oct 1871  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Notes 
    • 1880 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (McClellan District), enumerated in June 1880:
      Rezin Yeater, 28, farmer, cannot read or write; wife Emaline, 25, cannot read or write; son Ezekiel, 7; dau Eliza, 5; son Riley, 3; dau Lizza, 1 month (b. May).

      1900 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (McClellan District), enumerated on Jun 6 1900:
      Reason Yeater, 49, b. Jul 1850, day laborer, married 28 yrs; wife Emeline, 45, b. May 1855, married 28 yrs, mother of 7 children (6 still living); dau Kizzie, 15, b. Dec 1884; son James S, 12, b. Apr 1888; son Charles W, 7, b. Jul 1892; granddau Icie Belle, 3, b. Mar 1897.

      1910 Census, Harrison Co, WV (Sardis District), enumerated on Apr 29 1910:
      Emeline Swiger, 54, divorced, mother of 7 children (6 still living); son James S. Yeater, 22, single, tool dresser; son Charles W. Yeater, 18, single; granddau Isabelle Yeater, 13.

      1910 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Grant District), enumerated on Apr 20 1910:
      Vincent Ash, 50, farmer, married 29 yrs; wife Olive S, 52, married 29 yrs, mother of 8 children (7 still living); son Charles E, 17, teamster in oil field; son Arthur R, 10, farmer (at home); son Bercha E, 9; stepmother Viola S. Weekley, 75, widowed, mother of 7 children (5 still living); stepfather Richard L. Weekley, 87, married; brother Reason Yater [Yeater], 58, divorced, tool dresser in oil field.
      NOTE: Reason Yeater and Vincent Ash were half-brothers. Reason was born to Rachel Yeater before her marriage to Thomas Ash.
    Children 
    +1. Ezekiel YEATER,   b. 14 Aug 1871, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Dec 1932, Ashley, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
     2. Eliza YEATER,   b. 5 Jun 1875, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    >3. Riley YEATER,   b. 1 Apr 1877   d. 9 Apr 1945, Monongalia Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
    +4. Elizabeth "Lizzie" YEATER,   b. 25 May 1880, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Dec 1957, Pine Grove, Wetzel Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    +5. Kizzie YEATER,   b. Dec 1884, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1918 (Age ~ 33 years)
    >6. James Simon YEATER,   b. 10 Apr 1888, Ashley, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1947 (Age 58 years)
    +7. Charles Wesley YEATER,   b. 10 Jul 1892, Sardis District, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Mar 1952, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
    Family ID F25551  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV.

    2. [S2010] 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (McClellan District).

    3. [S1567] Marriage record of son.

    4. [S1604] Death record of son.

    5. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, MR p. 182 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11791304&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as Reason Yeater, age 21y 2m 21d, b. & res. in Doddridge Co, son of Israel Ash & Rachel Yeater; and Emeline Swiger, age 16y 4m 18d, b. & res. in Doddridge Co, dau of Alfred & Elizabeth Swiger. Married Oct 1 1871 in Doddridge County. Ceremony performed by Jacob Yeater.