Thought someone might be interested in this, it is from the Yeager-South
Rootsweb list.
Happy New Year,
Dale
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Match: Carmack
Source: YEAGER-SOUTH-US-L(a)rootsweb.com
From: Betty <jjandbj11(a)comcast.net>
Subject: Note #25: Lewis Yeager, son of John and Ann Render Yagger
Note #25 - The Children of John and Ann "Nancy" Render Yager of
Culpeper
Co., VA, and Laurens Co., SC:
LEWIS YEAGER (18 Mar 1794 - 26 Apr 1853)
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Two secondary sources name Lewis as son of John Yeager: (1) The 1889
biographical sketch of Hugh B. Yeager (1860-1914) cited in earlier notes
lists Lewis among John Yeager's children. A primary source for this
article
is thought to be the family bible of Ducalion Yeager, son of Abijah, and
possibly goes back further than that to older family bibles. (2) The
"Yeager Family Chart" prepared by Troy Lou Caddell of Bibb County, AL,
in
1960 states that her mother was Sarah Elizabeth Yeager, daughter of
Newton
Jasper Yeager, son of Lewis Yeager, son of John and Nancy Render Yeager.
Miss Caddell later stated that she got her information from her mother's
youngest sister, Lewis's granddaughter Effie Lula Yeager Stewart
(1877-1963).
Place of birth:
In a letter dated 28 January 1938, Lewis's grandson, John Alexander
Yeager
(1882-1955), wrote to Mrs. Jack Trotwood Moore at the Tennessee State
Library (TN State Archives) as follows: "As I understand the record, my
grandfather Lewis Yeager was born of German parents near a stream then
called 'Wolf Creek' near Petersburg, Lincoln County, Tennessee." The
writer
of the letter, my great-uncle, was the son of Daniel Wayne Yeager, son
of
Lewis. Uncle John was born in Lauderdale Co., MS, some 25 years after
his
father left Alabama. He was mayor of Seminary, MS, in the 1910s, later
served 16 years in the MS House of Representatives, and was an attorney
and
newspaper publisher in Lumbrton, MS until his death. I remember my
distinctive Uncle John fondly. But I think by 1938 he remembered some
things well and some things not so well. True, Lewis Yeager was the son
of
one German parent (one English), and he was born near a Wolf Creek, but
he
could not have been born in Tennessee. Although there is a Wolf River
in
TN, the state did not exist and was not open to settlement in 1794.
Also it
is true that Lewis had lived in Lincoln Co., TN, but he was born in
South
Carolina, according to the 1850 Bibb Co AL Census.
Moreover, Lewis's father owned land on Wolf Creek in SC in the 1790s,
which
is mentioned in several deeds. On 7 Oct 1795, when Lewis's father John
Yager bought 156 acres on Camp Shoal Creek of the Saluda River, it was
described as bordering land he already owned. The new acreage was part
of
tract granted to James Gillispie on 22 Aug 1791 by Charles Pinckney,
west of
the old boundary line on WOLF CREEK. On 14 Sept 1799 James Gellispie
sold
"779 acres on waters of WOLF CREEK" to John Yeargin (sic). And one year
later John Yager sold 50 acres on WOLF CREEK of the 12-Mile River.
(Source:
"Pendleton Dist SC Deeds 1790-1806," B. Willie)
Lewis's date of birth:
I have been told that his date of birth is established by War of 1812
records, but I have not yet seen the exact record. Obviously, the
evidence
gathered by Dafphine McPherson and Mary Norris Martinez in the 1970s and
1980s convinced the U. S. Government, which provided the military
gravestone
(War of 1812) containing the dates of birth and death for Lewis in the
Yeager family graveyard in Bibb County, AL. (See below for more on
Lewis's
grave marker.)
From South Carolina to Tennessee:
Lewis's brother Samuel -- 17 years older than Lewis -- led the way for
the
family to join him in Tennessee after 1810. I have not yet done
hands-on
research in Lincoln County, TN, but Marie Simmons reports that Marie
Lynch
Ward found a record that on "12 Nov 1814 Lois (Lewis?) Yeager owned 36
acres
land on Flint River."
Lewis enlisted on 13 November 1814 at Fayetteville, TN, in the 1st
Regiment
of the West Tennessee Militia under Captain William Sitton and Colonel
William Metcalf. His brothers Reuben and Abner enlisted on the same day
in
the same place. Lewis's rank was 4th Corporal, theirs Private.
According
to his widow's application for bounty land after his death, he served
until
13 May 1815 and was discharged in the Chickasaw Nation. The Hugh B.
Yeager
biography reads: "Reuban, Abner and Lewis Yeager were in the battle of
New
Orleans in 1814." And John Alexander Yeager's 1938 letter reads: "My
grandfather, Lewis Yeager, as a body-guard and sharp-shooter, was beside
General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans." Severeal battles took
place
outside New Orleans in December 1814 and into January 1815. Uncle John,
of
course, was talking about the final battle of New Orleans on 8 January
1815.
It may not have been his only service, though, for Uncle John also wrote
that Lewis had seen service at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, 27 March
1814.
Lewis's brother Reuben died before 6 May 1816, according to Lincoln Co.,
TN
probate records, and Isaac Parker was appointed legal guardian to four
of
Reuben's children. Lewis did not marry until 1822 but his wife's
grandfather was Isaac Parker, possibly the same man. The legal guardian
appointed for Reuben's other four minor children was Martin Pugh -- see
1820
census, p. 43, below -- who lived very near Lewis and Augustine.
The 1820 Lincoln Co TN Census, p. 43, shows Lewis, age 26-45, living
alone,
engaged in Agriculture, just next door to Augustine Yeager and his large
family. Lewis's brother Samuel is listed on page 44.
Page 43 from the 1820 Lincoln Co TN census includes these names as Heads
of
Households, in this order:
William Hurly,
James Evans
Hiram Webb
Thomas Evans
John Edmiston
John Sanders
Moses Sanders
James Sanders
Alexander Moore
John Prior
James Holmes
Thomas Scurlock
William Sansum
John Camper
John Davis
James Brown
William Linthicum
Caleb Lucy
Lydia Campbell
Martin Holbert
John Thompson
Henry Webb
Asa Hall
John B. Todd
James Garrett
Robert Fletcher
Alexander Kinney
Green Mosely
Elizabeth Flint
James McDavid
Malcolm Patterson
Thomas Lackey
Martha McGlathery
Martin Pugh
Nancy McDavid
William King
John Campbell
John Washburn
Reuben Washburn
Augustine Yagur
Lewis Yagur
John Dillin
--end p. 43.
Marriage to Anna Cammack.
"State of Alabama, Bibb County. To the Orphans Court of said County.
Greetings. To any Judge, Ministor of the Gospel or Justice of the Peace
legally authorized to celebrate the Rites of Matrimony, you are hereby
authorized to celebrate the Rites of Matrimony between Anna Cammack and
Lewis Yeager and this shall be your warrant. Given under my hand and
private having no official seal, this 23rd day of 1822.
Ezra M. Tate, Clk by
his Deputy, Henry Potts
This is to certify that I did so solemnize the Rites of Marriage between
the
within named parties on the 26th day of Nov 1822.
J. Hunt, JP
The State of Alabama
Bibb County"
Mary Frazier Norris Martinez told me there is a family story of Lewis
and
Anna eloping and spending the night in a ditch, using her petticoat
stuffed
with leaves as a mattress. Anna was 15, Lewis 28. John Cammack, Sr.,
didn't at first approve of the marriage because of the age difference
but
came to respect Lewis and accept his daughter's choice. Lewis's
daughter
Casseline married Mary's ancestor John Frazier, and though "Aunt Cass"
never
had children, she lived on with her stepchildren into old age, passing
on
family stories, and dying in 1926. Mary is also descended from Lewis's
son
Chapley Harvey Yeager. She says the family of Lewis Yeager was Primitive
Baptist.
The name Cammack is also found spelled Carmack. Cecil C. Cammack,
writing
in "John and Margaret Purtle Cammack," states that Anna was born 19 Nov
1807
in Tennessee and died 14 July 1861 in Bibb County, AL. Her father was
John
Cammack, II (1780-1833), son of John Cammack, I, (b. abt. 1753- d. 1832)
and
Margaret Purtle (b. abt. 1765-d. 1839). Anna's mother was Mary "Polly"
Parker (b. abt. 1787 - d, abt. 1851), daughter of Isaac Parker (b. abt.
1765
in SC- d. 1841 in Leake co., MS) and Nancy Jones.
This Isaac Parker's children included: Mary "Polly," Martha
"Patsy,"
Elizabeth "Betsy," John b. 1792, Cecelia, Jesse, Mathew, M. Giles,
Alfred
and Robert. (See Notes re Bartholomew Maclin Yeager, son of Reuben, who
went to Leake County, MS with Isaac Parker and his extended family in
the
late 1830s.) John Parker, b. 1792, son of Isaac, is probably the one
who
married Lewis's sister Elizabeth Yeager.
Lewis owned about 400 acres of land in Bibb County, AL, by 1860,
according
to Mary Martinez, whose fascination with maps and surveys caused her to
research Lewis's holdings and mark them on a color-coded map, which she
mailed to me in 1994. He lived in southwest Bibb County, on the west
side
of the Cahaba River. His nephew Eldridge Jackson Yeager, son of Reuben,
owned 40 acres adjoining Lewis.
I also found the following records:
-- From "Old Cahaba Land Office Records and Military Warrants
1817-1853,"
Barefield-Hahn, 1981: Register of Certificates 1820-1835, p. 99:
July 18, 1833 -- Lewis Yeager, Bibb County, Sec. 14, Twp. 22, Rng. 8.
--From BLM Web site:
Lewis Yeager's land acquisitions -- all in AL, St. Stephens Meridian;
all
Cash Entry Sales,
1) 01 July 1831 - 150.1000 acres - T17N, R6E, S5 - Doc #6116 - Ser
#AL0260__.004,
2) 01 Oct 1835 - 80.5000 acres - T22N, R8E, S11 - Doc #19445 - Ser.
#AL0520__.140
3) 19 Sep 1835 - 40.1700 acres - T22N, R8E, S14 - Doc #15407 - Ser.
#AL0430__.326*
4) 19 Sep 1835 - 40.0000 acres - T22N, R8E, S11 - Doc #15408 - Ser.
#AL0430__.327*
5) 28 July 1838 80.0050 acres - T22N, R8E, S11 - Doc #3360 - Ser
#AL1790__.004
6) 01 Apr 1848 - 44.1800 acres - T22N, R8E, S12 - Doc #36882 - Ser
#AL1860__.108
7) 10 Aug 1850 - 40.0000 acres - T22N, R8E, S11 - Doc #38631 - Ser
#AL1890__.315**
I have been unable to locate Lewis on the 1830 census of Bibb County,
AL.
However, the 1840 census shows his household as follows:
Lewis Yeager;
2 males under 5, 2 males age 5-10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 40-50.
1 female under 5, 2 females age 10-15, 1 female age 30-40.
No slaves
The 2 males under 5 would be Daniel Wayne and Chapley Harvey. The 2
boys
age 5-10 would be Newton Jasper and Virgil Peck. The male 10-15 would
be
Israel Miles. The male 15-20 would be the eldest child, Constantine.
The
male 40-50 is Lewis. The female under 5 would be Narcissa. The 2 girls
age
10-15 would be Araminta and Martha. And the woman age 30-40 is Anna
Cammack
Yeager.
1850 Census of Bibb County, Alabama, Family #119
(NOTE: The ages on this census appear to be too young by two years,
based on
1840 census and the fact that Lewis would have been 56, not 54, in 1850;
my
ggf Daniel was 15, not 13, in 1850 according to family records and his
tombstone.)
Yeager , Lewis, age 54 b. S.C, Occ: Farmer
, Ann, 43, TN
, Constantine, 25, AL, Laborer
, Isreal, 23, AL, Laborer
, Martha, 21, AL
, Araminta, 19, AL
, Virgil T., 17 AL, Laborer
, Newton J., 15, AL, Laborer
, Dan'l., 13, AL
, Chapley H., 8, AL
, Narcissa, 11, AL
, Carseline, 9, AL
, Dixon H.L., 6, AL
, Mary, 4, AL
Note that Virgil's middle initial was actually P. He was called Peck
Also
note that the handwriting on the census makes "Dan'l" look like
"Paul"
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Lewis died on 26 April 1853. When his widow applied for additional
bounty
land after his demise, statements were required by neighbors. Part of
the
application reads as follows:
The State of Alabama, Bibb County
Before me D.M.JAMES and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, personally appeared BENJAMIN LITTLE and HIRAM ELAM who being
duly
sworn according to law deposeth and sayes that they both were present
when
LEWIS YEAGER was buried after his decease which was in the County of
Bibb
and State of Alabama and his decease was on or about the 26th day of
April
AD 1853, the affiant LITTLE sayes that he was standing near him when he
breathed his last breath and the affiant ELAM sayes that he was at his
residence and helped dress his remains. The affiants further says that
both
lived neighbors to ANNY YEAGER, widow of LEWIS YEAGER, deceased at this
time
and resided near her ever since the death of her said husband and that
they
both know that she is at this time a widow and that she is the identical
ANNY YEAGER who was an applicant for Bounty Land under the Act of
Congress
of March 3rd 1855, No. 219260.
Sworn to and Subscribed before me
BENJAMIN LITTLE
HIRAM ELAM
("Alabama Records," Jones & Gandrud, V. 232, pp .1-3)
Lewis's possessions were few, as the Inventory of his Estate in 1856
attests: 1 Bed & Furniture, 1 Bed Bedstead & Furniture, 1 Chair, 1
Spinning
Wheel, 1 Walnut Table, 1 Pine Table, 1 Loom, 1 Lot Plough Stocks, 1
Scythe &
Cradle, 1 Sett Gears for a two horse wagon, 2 Pr Plough Gears, 1 Bay
Horse,
1 Two Horse Wagon, 1 Cow & Calf, 2 Club Axes, 1 Side Saddle, 1 Mans
Saddle.
(from "Administrator's Record G 1851-1854," p. 479, Bibb Co AL)
Anna is found on the 1860 Bibb County, AL census as follows:
Yeager, Anna, female, age 52, b. TN.
, H., 16 male AL. Farmer
Caroline 19 F AL.
William 3 M AL
Mary 13 F AL
Sarah 2 F AL
Note: H. the 16-year-old male is Dixon Harry Lewis b1843, who according
to
family lore was called Hall-Lewis, run together. He never married and
died
just a year or so later. Caroline is Casseline who was born in 1841 and
married John Frazier. Mary is also a child of Anna and Lewis -- their
youngest, b.27 Feb 1847 who never married and eventually lived with an
elderly couple in Mississippi.
However, 3-year-old William and 2-year-old Sarah cannot be Anna's
children
because Anna's husband died 7 years previously. I'm speculating as to
identities: William is same name/age as son of Lewis's nephew Ezekiel
Everett Yeager. William Wesley Yeager b. 19 Jun 1856; and Sarah is same
name/age as youngest child of Lewis's nephew Eldridge Jackson Yeager.
The Civil War began 12 April 1861. Three of Lewis's and Anna's sons
died in
that conflict: Chapley Harvey (called Harvey) in 1864, D. Harry Lewis
between 1861-64, and Virgil Peck (called Peck) between 1861-64. Daniel
Wayne
was wounded at the Battle of Corinth, MS.
More information on the children of Lewis will follow in a later note to
the
list.
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The Yeager Family Graveyard, where members of the family of Lewis and
Anna
are buried, is located on private property 6 1/2 miles s.w of Brent
beside
the former home of Lewis's son Newton Jasper Yeager. Only 5 graves are
now
marked. According to Mrs. Jessie Caddell Perdue, who escorted us to the
graves in May 1994, her late husband Albert prepared a chart of the
graves
before the old stones were rolled away. (1) Infant daughter of Lewis and
Anna Carmack Yeager, (2) Lewis Yeager, (3) Anna Carmack Yeager [wife of
Lewis], (4) Israel Miles Yeager [son of Lewis, (5) Mary Tedders Yeager
[Wife
of Israel M.], (6) James Lafayette Yeager [son of Newton Jasper Yeager],
(7)
Baby Nora Yeager [3-yr-old daughter of James Lafayette and Marietta W.
Yeager], (8] Infant son of James Richard and Lula Yeager Stewart
[youngest
daughter of Newton J. Yeager], (9) Newton Jasper Yeager[son of Lewis],
(10)
Lucinda Tedders Yeager [wife of Newton J.], and (11) Mary Casseline
Yeager
[daughter of Newton J.]
The story of Lewis's tombstone:
Mary Norris Martinez wrote me on 25 Sep 1994 that she and cousin Laura
Grantham Rigliano -- both descendants of Lewis's son Chapley Harvey
Yeager -- had visited Troy Caddell in Bibb County in 1982 to see the
Yeager
Family Graveyard on her property, and that Dafphine McPherson (Wilma
Dafphine Heath Yeager Mcpherson, 1927-1987) had also visited with Miss
Caddell. Mary wrote me that Dafphine had intended to order the stone
for
Lewis from the U. S. Government but a few weeks later discovered she had
cancer. The Harvey Yeager-descendant cousins (Mary, Laura, et al.) had
agreed to buy a stone for Lewis's wife Anna. Later on, when Dafphine's
son
Michael Dan Yeager reported that the stone for Lewis was not in place,
Mary
collected the information Dan had found among his mother's things and
sent
for the stone. By then, Troy Caddell had also died and Mary and Laura
contacted Troy's sister Mrs. Jessie Perdue and her family to determine
the
placement of the stone. "We agreed that there was no way to verify the
location of the graves and that it was the thought that counted."
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