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The Conrad Yoder Family of North Carolina 

Con Conrad Yoder b. ca1730 d. Apr. or May 1790 Lincoln Co., NC 

settled in NC ca 1755 bur. 8 miles S of Hickory, NC 

( 1790 Census- Morgan District, Lincoln County, NC not as Catherine Yoder, 

but as Catharin Goder.) 

m1 1763 Christina "Klein" Cline (born 1743 in , Lancaster Co, 

PA- 1771/2)(Lexikay1@aol.com) 

+Con1- John (per- Lexikay1@aol.com- John Abel Sr) b. Oct.26, 1764 

+Con2- Jacob b. Dec.13, 1767 

+Con3- David b. Apr.3, 1770 

m2. 1773 Miss Seitz (?- w/i a year of marriage) 

m3. 1775 Catherine Huffman (?- ca1810) 

(Rowan County, NC marriage- "Conrad Yutter and Katharina Huffman," 

June 20, 1775- infoi found by Roy Yount, Feb. 2001) 

Con4- Elizabeth b. Apr. 14, 1776 d. as an infant 

born blind. 

+Con5- Elias b. Oct. 31, 1777 

+Con6- Daniel b. Jun. 18, 1780 

Con7- Catherine b. Dec.21, 1782 m. May 8, 1798 Lincoln Co., NC 

John Baker d. Aug.3, 1867 

+Con8- Adam b. Jun.23, 1785 

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I believe really strongly that Conrad Yoder came from Oley, or at least was 

living in Oley with a relative. Conrad Yoder, Michael Whitener, and Henry 

Whitener all came from Oley Twp., Berks County together. The only land 

Henry WEidner ever sold was to Conrad and Michael. He sold them the VERY 

VALUABLE water rights. Contrary to legend, original papers show that Henry

sold the water rights to Conrad and to Michael FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF 

MONEY. There is some ridiculous story that Henry charged Michael more 

than Conrad.--- Anne McAllister, author "Georg Heinrich Weidner 1717-1792; 

Catharina Mull Weidner 1733-1804" 

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A Yoder sister? > From: "Bob Kastens" 

I have Hans Jacob Hoffman (b. 1716, Germany), m. 1st, 1745, to Catherina Best & 

m. 2nd, 1770, to Catherina Yoder. He died in Gaston Co, NC. I don't have any 

info 

on Ms. Yoder. Can you help? 

Bob 

There was a Hoffman family book by Max Hoffman, revised by Frances Wellman 

Hoffman with details on the Hoffman family. But they have nothing on 

Catherina Yoder. I am trying to find where I got this info. Hans Jacob Hoffman 

was born in Palatinate of Germany in 1716. Sailed from 

> Rotterdam, Holland, on the British ship Pennsylvania Packet & arrived in 

Philadelphia on October 3, 1768. Settled in Berks Co, PA. Later moved to the 

Shenandoah Valley, VA. Settled on land on the South Fork River valley in 

what is now Gaston Co, NC. Married, 1745, Catherina Best, in Palatinate of 

Germany. Bob 

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JOHN YODER, ELDEST SON 

Con1 John Yoder (John Abel Sr-per lexikay1@aol.com) (10/26/1764 Lincoln Co., 

NC-12/29/1835 Lincoln Co., NC) m. ca 1790 Mary Barbara Reep (1765-Aug.28,1842 

Catawba Co., NC). both buried Grace Church Cemetery 

+Con11- John (John Abel Jr-per LexiKay1@aol.com) b. Mar.19,1795 

Con12- Christina b. ca 1796 m. Dec.21, 1823 Lincoln Co., NC 

Jacob Weaver d. "age 83" ca 1879 

+Con13- Jacob b. Mar.25, 1797 

+Con14- Michael b. Mar.17, 1799 

+Con15- Peter b.Oct.13, 1805 

Con16- Mollie b. m. Caleb Dietz (b. 1/20/1817 Lincoln, Co, 

NC. 

(son of Solomon DEITZ) 

Con17- Barbara b. m. 3/20/1828 Lincoln Co, NC 

David Reep d. "age 82" 

Con11 John Yoder d. Mar.19,1870 bur. Grace Church Cem. 

m. May 15, 1819 Lincoln Co., NC Sarah (Sallie) Whitener 

(11/30/1793 -4/2/1869) (per LexiKay1@aol.com- John Abel Jr; Sarah 

was born about 1797 in , Lincoln Co. NC, (Zion Luth bapt). She 

died Apr 1869 in Catawba Co, NC.)

+Con111- John Abel b. 1818 

Con112- Barbara Lavinia (3/8/1824 Catawba Co., NC- ) m. 4/3/1840 

Lincoln Co., NC Jesse Killian (c1824- ) (per LexiKey1@aol.com- 

Barbara also married David REEP (b c1824) "children lived in different climes" 

+Con113- Daniel Moses b. Apr.10,1822 

Con114- Anna Eliza b. ? m. John Reep .. "4 children" 

Con115- William b. ca1824 . single.. moved to SC 

+Con116- Levi b. ca1825 

Con117- Mary (Mollie) b. ca1833 m1 11/9/1856 Catawba Co., NC Amzi A. Hahn 

(12//31/1833 Lincoln Co., NC-7/17/1864 Petersburg, VA -Civil War) 

m2 Luther Flannagan, "children lived in Hickory" 

+Con118- Andrew R. b. Feb.7, 1836 NC 

Con111- John Abel Yoder d. Civ. War, Battle of Bristow Springs,VA 

m. 3/22/1841 Lincoln Co., NC to Lizzie Jarrett (10/19/1821-2/19/1900) 

Con1111- Anna b. ca1841 m. Elem Thouser 

Con1112- Marcus b. ca1843 killed in Civil War 

+Con1113- Robert Knox b. ca1845 

("Robert d. Civ War, Knox lived GA") 

Con1114- Rhoda b. ca1847 

Con1115- George b. ca1850 

("in GA".. a George res, Union Co.,TN 1900. wife Malinda 

he b. Aug. 1848 ) 

(1900 Union Co, Monroe- Geo. D. b 8/-/1848 NC Malinda b. 5/-/1868) 

Con1116- Lizzie (Elizabeth) b. ? 

Con1117- William b. ca1850 "single lives with mother" 

Con1118- Frances b. "left the state" 

Con1113- Robert Knox ( c1845 NC- ) ("Robert d. Civ War (sic?), 

Knox lived GA") ?per 1880 Ga-McDuffie Co: Robert Knox Yoder (c1852 NC- 

) m. Bell ____ (c1853 Ga- ) 

Con11131- Lucy (1874 NC- ) 

Con11132- Robert (1877 Ga- ) 

Con11133- Feddie (age 10/12 in 1880 Ga- ) 

Con113 Daniel Moses Yoder d. May 21, 1908 

m. c1853 Sarah E. Whisnant (Jan.7,1833 Lincoln Co, NC- 

Nov.9,1908 Catawba Co., NC) both bur. Zion Church Cemetery 

(1900- Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp- with James and Etta) 

+Con1131- Jason E. b. Oct.10,1855 m. Jane Yoder (Con1321) 

d. Jul.21, 1916 Brookfield. bur. Zion Church Cem. 

+Con1132- Hosea W. b. Jun. 1858 m.Theodosia Whitener 

Con1133- James P. (3/6/1860-12/29/1949) m. 

Fannie Etta Weaver (5/15/1872-8/29/1959) 

Con1134- Ida b. ca1861 m. c1881 Jones Sigmon (c1861- ) 

Con1135- Martha b. ca1863 m. c1883 Noah Whitener (c1863- ) 

no issue 

+Con1136- Alfred P. b. Jan.12, 1866 m. Cora Yoder (Con1318)

d. May 1,1947 bur. Zion Church Cem. 

+Con1137- Robert M. b. 1867 m. Ida Abernathy 

+Con1138- Hilliard b. Nov. 1870 m Minnie Weaver 

Con1131- Jason Elisha (10/10/1855-7/21/1916 Brookfield.) m. 8/18/1880 

Jane Barbara Yoder (Con1321) (9/13/1856-6/30/1900) bur. Zion Church Cem. 

farmer and wagoner (1900 Catawba, Hick. Twp) 

Con11311- Lillybelle ( - ) m 

Longdon Huffman -one child 

Con11312- Carl M. (9/4/1884 NC-3/7/1946 bur Zion Church Cem) 

m Elsie M. Teague (5/20/1886- ) 

Con11313- Carrie E. (2/-/1884 NC- 1956) m1 Robert Lee Martin 

( -1930) m2 A.D. Herren 

Con11314- Marshall W. (4/-/1885 NC- ) m Evie Hedrick 

Con11315- Macon (Willie M.) (3/-/1887 NC- ) m Ella Sigmon 

Con11316- Ora (Katie O.) (3/-/1893 NC- ) m ____ Williams 

Con11317- Clyde W. (11/-/1895 NC- ) m Helen ____ 

Con1132- Hosea W. Yoder (1/7/1858 Catawba Co., NC-9/22/1940 

Catawba Co., NC) m. Theodosia Candice "Dosia" Whitener 

(4/10/1873 Catawba Co., NC- 11/22/1949 Catawba Co., NC) 

(1900- Catwba, Hickory Twp) 

Con11321- Mark 

(Son "Marcus M." listed 1900- b. 2/189(7?)) 

Con11322- Lula E. (4/-/1894 NC- ) 

Con11323- Kenneth 

Con11324- Fredie 

Con11325- Ivey (3/-/1897 NC- ) 

Con11326- Essie 

Con11327- Colen 

Con11328-Vernon 

Con11329- Nettie 

Con1131- Jason E. Yoder (10/10/1855-7/21/1916 Brookfield.) m. 

Jane Yoder (Con1321) (9/13/1856-6/30/1900) bur. Zion Church Cem. 

farmer and wagoner (Yoders of NC) 

Con11311- Lillybelle ( - ) m 

Longdon Huffman -one child 

Con11312- Carl M. (9/4/1884-3/7/1946 bur Zion Church Cem) 

m Elsie M. Teague (5/20/1886- ) 

Con11313- Carrie E. (2/_/1884- 1956) m1 Robert Lee Martin 

( -1930) m2 A.D. Herren 

Con11314- Marshall W. (4/_/1885 NC- ) m Evie Hedrick 

Con11315- Macon (Willie M.) (3/_/1893 NC- ) m Ella Sigmon 

Con11316- Ora (Katie O.) (3/_/1893 NC- ) m ____ Williams 

Con11317- Clyde J. (11/-/1895 NC- ) m Helen ____

Con1132- Hosea Yoder (6/_/1858 NC- ) m Theodosia 

Whitener 

(1872- ) (1900-NC-Catawba, Yoders of NC) farmer 

Con11321- Mark (2/_/1899 NC- ) 

Con11322- Lula (4/_/1895 NC- ) 

Con11323- Kenneth 

Con11324- Fredie 

Con11325- Ivey (3/_/1897 NC- ) 

Con11326- Essie 

Con11327- Colen 

Con11328-Vernon 

Con11329- Nettie 

Con1136- Alfred P. Yoder (1/12/1866 NC-5/1/1947) bur. Zion Church Cem. M 

Cora Isabel Yoder (Con1318) (6/14/1871 NC-6/6/1965 Catawba Co., NC) (Yoders of 

NC) 

(1900-Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp) 

Con11361- Claude Henry (7/26/1892 NC-9/1/1939 bur. in Pa) m. 7/28/1928 

Leila Baker ( - ) 

Con11362- Hettie Alice (4/28/1893 NC- ) m. 12/24/1914 William E. 

Mowery 

( - ) 

Con11363- Bertie (7/2/1895 NC- ) m. 12/31/1916 Sidney Reep 

( - 12/30/1947) 

Con11364- Roy (2/12/1898 NC-5/_/1975 res NC (SSN)) m. 

Effie Huffman ( - ) 

Con11365- Belle (5/1/1900 NC- ) m. P.E. Bollinger 

( - ) 

Con11366- Harry Lee (10/10/1902- ) m.11/12/1938 

Edna Hoover ( - ) 

Con11367- Bessie (3/13/1905- ) m1. McKinley Smyre 

( -4/20/1935) m2. Tom Silvey ( -9/15/1951) 

Con11368- Daniel Noah (3/15/1906- ) m. 

Margaret Setzer ( - ) 

Con11369- Marvin Edgar (9/6/1909-5/_/1977 res NC (SSN)) m. 

Pauline Pope ( - ) 

Con1136a- Ovelia (10/26/1912- ) m. 

A.B. Phelps ( - ) 

Con1137- Robert M. Yoder (1867 NC- ) m. 

Ida L. Abernathy (1/-/1866 NC - )(Yoders of NC-pg34) 

(1900- Catawba, Hickory Twp) 

Con11371- Lemuel E. (4/-/1893 NC - ) 

Con1138- Hilliard F. Yoder (11/_/1870 NC- ) m. 

Minnie C. Weaver (12/_/1874 NC- ) (Yoders of NC-pg34, 

1900- Catawba, Hickory Twp) 

Con11381- Frank

Con11382- Lawrence 

Con11383- Clarence O. (1/_/1895 NC- ) (or 1/-/1897 NC- ) 

Con11384- Dewey S. (12/_/1898 NC- ) 

Con11385- Eli (?Charles E. b.9/_/1896 NC) 

Con11386- Efred 

Con11387- Carroll 

Con11388- Harvey 

Con11389- John 

Con1138a- Olin 

Con1138b- Katie 

Con1138c- Pearl 

Con116 Levi Franklin Yoder (11/29/1825 Lincoln Co., NC- ) 

resident of Newton,NC m. c1863 Harriet Gross (Apr. ,1843 NC- ) 

(1880-Catawba, Newton Twp) (Harriett living with dau. Sallie B. Whitter 

1900-Catawba, Newton) 

Con1161- Tollie (A.J.) b. c1868 NC 

(?same as "A.J." listed 1900 Mech., Charlotte as Sil M C McKay) 

Con1162- Sallie B. b. Jul. ,1870 NC m. _________ Whitter 

(1900-apparentlt a widow with children: Charlie 1/92 NC, Lee 5/94 NC, 

Zetta- 2/96 NC 

Con1163- Ase A. b. Jan. ,1872 NC m. Nellie________ (5/-/1874 NY- 

) 

(1900- Catawba, Newton Twp) 

Con1164- Edward L. b. c1874 NC 

Con118 Andrew R. Yoder d. Aug. 9,1895 bur. Grace Church Cem. 

m1 6/18/1857. Catherine Hahn (Oct. 8,1835-May 13,1885) 

(?10/8/1838-5/23/1885 per Ray Yount-1880 census shows she was 41 yrs) 

Bur. Grace (1880 NC Census, Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp) 

m2. Caroline Whitener (Dec.17,1843- Jan. ,1917) 

(living with John A. in 1900 census) 

bur. Zion Church Cemetery, farmer 

Con1181- Julia Ann (3/24/1858 Newton, NC-1/17/1912) m 12/18/1876 

Hickory,NC 

Reuben Propst (3/7/1855 Catawba Co., NC-11/4/1942 Newton, NC) 

res Catawba Co, NC (Reference: Ray A. Yount Chart-'95) (son of Daniel Riley 

PROPST and Lathsina "Fannie" DAGERHART-per LexiKey1@aol.com) 

+Con1182- David Luther b. Jul.21,1861 m. Mary Elizabeth Beard 

d. Jul.16, 1926 resident of Newton, NC 

+Con1183- John A. b. Nov.20,1864 m.11/8/1899 Emily Asbury 

d. Jul.16, 1926 resident Linville, NC 

+Con1184- Junius T. b. Feb. 1867 m. Candace Bollinger 

d. Oct.4, 1948 bur. Zion Lutheran Church Cem. 

Con1185- Loy Henry b. 1870 m. Lula Loganhour no issue 

bur. Salisbury, NC 

Con1186- Minta (Millie) b. Mar.1874 m. Francis Ashbury 

Boyles bur. Cherryville Cemetery (living with bro. John

in 1900 census) 

Con1182- David Luther Yoder (7/21/1861 NC-7/16/1929) m. 2/7/1884 Catawba Co., 

NC 

Mary Elizabeth Beard (4/_/1866 NC- 

) resident of Newton, NC 

(Yoders of NC-pg38, 1900-NC-Catawba, Newton) store clerk and merchant 

Con11821- Hattie L. (1/_/1885 NC- ) m. 

Homer Copening ( - ) 

Con11822- Coley (3/_/1888 NC- ) m. 

Mattie Daugherty ( - ) 

Con11823- Lewis A. (4/_/1890 NC- ) m. 

Della Ballard ( - ) 

Con11824- Sally Edna (10/_/1891 NC- ) m. 

R.L. Huffman ( - ) 

Con11825- Luther S. (5/_/1899 NC- ) 

Con1183- John A. Yoder (11/20/1864-7/16/1926 Newland, NC) m.11/8/1899 

Catawba Co,NC Emily (Marcella in 1900 census) Asbury (3/22/1875- ) 

bur. Newland Cem., Avery Co,NC (Yoders of NC-pg40) (1900- Catawba, Newton) 

Con11831- Zoe (11/12/1900- 

) m. 8/7/1919 Roderick M. Love 

( - ) 

Con11832- Katherine (2/14/1902- ) m. 11/27/1924 A.E. Scharrer 

( - ) 

Con11833- John Andrew (2/27/1904-7/13/1968) single bur. Newland Cem. 

Con11834- Philip Sydney (10/7/1905-4/_/1971 res NC (SSN)) m. 9/6/1928 

Nellie Gauge ( - ) 

Con11835- Samuel Levi (5/22/1907- ) m. 3/13/1940 Jete Daniels 

( - ) 

Con11836- Lucille (2/14/1909- 

) m. 10/16/1937 John H. Parrish 

( - ) 

Con11837- Miriam Minetta (6/7/1913-3/16/1934) 

Con1184- Junius Theodore Yoder (2/16/1867 NC-10/4/1948 Catawba Co., 

NC) m. 12/24/1890 Catawba Co, NC Candace J. Bollinger (6/_/1867 NC- 

12/3/1949) 

both bur. Zion Lutheran Church Cem. (Yoders of NC-pg 42, 1900-Catawba, Hickory 

Twp) 

Con11841- Floyd R. (3/4/1892 NC-6/16/1964) m1. 

Veona Bowman ( -7/17/1952) m2. Mearl Drum ( 

- ) 

Con11842- Guy F. (6/1/1894 NC-11/_/1977 res NC (SSN)) m. 

Hattie Miller ( - ) 

Con11843- Ray ( 

- in infancy) 

Con11844- Grace (3/15/1903- ) m. 5/29/1928 

Harry M. Arndt ( - ) 

Con13 Jacob Yoder d. Nov.24, 1864

m. Jun. 6,1824 Lincoln Co., NC Catherine Hahn (Apr.20,1804- 

Oct.20,1872) 

both bur. Zion Church Cemetery 

+Con131- Reuben b. May 19, 1828 

+Con132- Moses b. Oct. 2, 1830 NC 

Con133- Marcus (10/28/1833-5/17/1880) m. Martha Catherine Seitz 

(2/5/1839- ) (per-LexiKay1@aol.com- daughter of Darius David 

SEITZ and Rebecca Lavina LINK) no issue bur. Zion Church Cem. 

Con134- Amy b. Jun.27, 1836 never married 

d. 12/6/1893 Catawba Co., NC Zion Church Cem. 

+Con135- Eliza(beth) b. Sep.23, 1841 m.4/26/1877 

Col. George Yoder (Con141) 

d. Feb. 9,1924 bur. Grace Church Cem. 

+Con136- Amzi b. Dec. 8,1844 NC m. Aldine Miller 

d. Mar. 8,1924 Hickory, NC bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem. 

Con131 Reuben Yoder d. Feb. 4, 1898 

m1. 4/12/1857 Mary C. Reep (10/12/1837-1/15/1862 Catawba Co., NC) 

m2. C1863 Frances Dulcina Emaline Reep (May 12,1842-Jun.11,1924 Catawba Co., 

NC) all bur. Zion Church cemetery (per LexiKey1@aol.com- farmer & surveyor; 

"dark complexion, hazel eyes, grayish hair") (Framnces 1900- Catawba, Jacob's 

Fork Twp) 

Con1311- Dovey Lenora b. 1858 d. in infancy 

(?1880 Census. catawba Co., Newton Twp, Dovy Yoder age 22 with son John Yoder, 

age 6/12 living with Emanuel Reepe)(same location 1900, also with John J. (son) 

b. 11/-/1879 NC) 

Con1312- Isadora Elenora (1859-1934) m. c1879 Jones Abernathy (1859- 

) 

Con1313- Mary Alice b. 1862 m. c1882 John Weaver c1862- ) 

bur. Wesley Methodist Cemetery 

Con1314- Frances Virginia (1/26/1861-6/3/1864 Catawba Co., NC) 

(bur. Zion Lutheran- per LexiKey1@aol.com) 

Con1315- Charles Elbert Lee b. 1866 m. c1886 Irene Bird (c1866- ) 

resident of Texas d. c1940 

Con1316- Minta Luella (Ellen) b. Feb. 1868 d. 1945 single 

died bur. Bethel Church Cem. 

Con1317- Lydia b.Oct. 5,1869 died single 

d. Aug.27,1886 bur. Zion Church Cem. 

Con1318- Cora Isabel (6/14/1871-6/6/1965 Catawba Co.,NC) m. c1891 

Alfred Yoder (Con1136) bur. Zion Church Cem. 

Con1319- Oliver McMillan b. Feb.13,1873 NC m. Dec.24,1899 Laura Ida 

Miller 

(12/26/1877 NC-11/21/1958 Catawba Co.,NC) d. Jan.31, 1948 bur. Zion Church 

cem.- 

8 children (1900-Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp) 

Con131a- Jacob E. b. Dec. 1874 m. c1894 Lillie Miller (c1874-1974 Pampa, 

Tx) .. no issue d. 1947 Pampa, TX bur. Pampa Cem. 

(1900- with mother and sister Ella, NC)

Con131b- Lowell Preston b. 1877 SC m. c1897 Ruth Durham (c1877-c1955) 

d. 1955 Pampa TX bur. Pampa Cem.- one child 

Con131c- Oscar A. (3/8/1879-4/25/1937) m. c1899 Effie Campbell 

(c1879 NC- ) no issue d. 4/25/1937 bur Bethel Ch. Cem. 

Con132 Moses Yoder d. May 23,1917 

m.10/14/1855 Sarah Elizabeth Ward (Dec.18,1831 NC-Feb.26,1908) 

bur. Zion Church Cem. (1900-Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp) 

Con1321- Jane Barbara b. Sep. 13,1856 m. Jason E Yoder (Con1131) 

d. Jun.30,1900 bur. Zion Church Cem. 

Con1322- John Adolphus b. Jun.15,1858 d. Jun.5,1860 

bur. Zion Church Cem. 

Con1323- Martha Sarahann b. Jun. 5,1860 m. Lewis Moore 

d. Aug.22,1945 bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem. 

Con1324- Laura Susan b. Jul. 8,1862 m. David Efrid Hahn 

d. July 1947 bur. Hickory Oakwood Cemetery 

Con1325- Emma Clementine b. ? m. Colin Monroe Yoder (Con1415) 

d. Jul. 2, 1951 bur.Hickory Oakwood cem. 

Con1326- Belle Virginia b. Mar.18,1869 single 

d. Jan. 4, 1889 bur. Zion Church Cem. Age19y/9m/16d 

+Con1327- Willie B. b. Jun.13, 1871 m Ada Gertrude Whitener 

d. Jul.31, 1934 bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem. 

Con1328- Carrie Alda b. Aug. 30,1874 m. Robert Weaver 

d. Jul. 2,1906 bur. Zion Church Cem. 

Con1327- Willie B. Yoder (6/13/1871 NC-7/31/1934) m 

Ada Gertrude Whitener (1/-/1873 NC-1948) both bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem. 

(Yoders of NC -pg56) (1900-Catawba, Hickory Twp) 

Con13271- Pinkie J. (7/10/1891 NC-1967) m. 5/12/1909 Elmer James 

( - ) (1900 censue seems to say 6/-/1891) 

Con13272- Glenn Efird (1/29/1893 NC-8/_/1975 res. NC (SSN)) m. 

Myrtle Mansfield ( - ) 

Con13273- Lola Maud (11/27/1895 NC-10/30/1914) had polio 

Con136 Amzi A. Yoder (12/8/1844 NC-3/8/1924) 

m. Adaline Christina Miller (8/29/1844 NC- Jul.26,1932 Hickory,NC) 

bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem. (per LexiKay1@aol.com- daughter of Daniel 

MILLER and Lovina ISENHOWER, 1880 NC-Catawba Co, Hickory Twp., 1900 Catawba, 

Hickory Twp) 

Con1361- Lula G. b. Sep. 6, 1870 m. Rev. John W. Wanamaker 

d. Dec.25,1948 bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem. 

Con1362- Edgar D. b. Aug.31,1874 m1. Brock Holden m2. Marion 

Brockwell .. no issue d. 9/1/1952 bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem. 

Con1363- Theodore Ainsley b. Oct.20,1879 single d. Jul.7, 1941 

Con1364- Hyrle b. Jan.6,1883 NC single 

Con1365- Katie Lee b. Jan. 3, 1886 NC d. Nov.5,1922 

bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem.

Con14 Michael Yoder b. Mar.17, 1799 d. Jan. 9,1874 bur. Grace Lutheran 

Cem. m. Nov. 10,1824 Lincoln Co., NC Magdalena (Polly) Dietz (c1804- 1832) 

bur. Old Yoder Cemetery (GEDCOM #I39) 

+Con141- George M. ("Col.") b. Aug. 23, 1826 

+Con142- Cyrus b. Aug. 5,1828 

Con143- Laban b. c1829/30 ? died young 

Con144- Absolem b.4/6/1831 died young 

Con141 "Col." George M. Yoder (8/23/1826 NC- 3/22/1920 NC) 

m1. Feb.11, 1851 Rebecca Roseanna Herman ( ? - Jul.23,1875) 

m2. Apr.26, 1877 Eliza Emaline Yoder (Con135) (Sep. 1841- Feb.9,1924) 

bur. Grace Church Cemetery (1900- Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp) 

+Con1411- Francis Alfonzo b. Nov.24,1851 m. Louisa Catherine 

Coulter d. Apr.13,1913 bur. Grace Church Cem. 

+Con1412- Julius Montfort b. Oct.7,1853 m1. Mary Susan (Mollie) 

Tillman m2. Sugar Tillman d. Nov.29,1925 

bur. Van Wyck, SC Cemetery 

Con1413- Mary Ann b. Jul.4,1856 m. Joshua A. Yount 

d. Feb.15,1931 no issue bur. Grace Church Cem. 

(living with father, single 1900) 

Con1414- Florence Irene. b. Dec.24, 1860 m David Ramseur 

d. Nov.19, 1935 bur. Grace Church Cem. 

+Con1415- Colin Monroe b. Jul.30, 1863 m. Emma Clementine 

Yoder (Con1325) d. Mar. 8,1953 bur. Hickory Oakwood 

Cem. 

Con1416- Enloe Michael b. Sep.17,1879 NC m. Hettie Dietz 

d. Jul.7, 1948 bur. Grace Church Cem. 

Con1411- Francis Alfonzo Yoder (11/24/1851 NC-4/13/1913) m. 1/20/1874 

Louisa Catherine Coulter (3/_/1856 NC-8/5/1931) both bur. Grace Church Cem. 

(Yoders in NC-pg79,Neal D. Wilfong Cht. '84) (1880& 1900 -Catawba Co., Jacobs 

Fork Twp) 

Con14111- Eli Summy (10/11/1874 NC-6/26/1896 typhoid fever Augusta,Ga) single 

bur. Grace Cem. 

Con14112- Samuel Oscar (10/15/1876 NC-1/26/1933) single bur. Grace Cem. 

Con14113- George Clinton (6/14/1878 NC-1/3/1963 bur. Hickory Oakwood 

Cem) m. 1/10/1912 Dora Hopkins ( - ) 

Con14114- Everette Forest (4/13/1880-9/6/1884 diptheria bur. Grace Cem.) 

Con14115- Frank Ladson (2/7/1882 NC-7/5/1950 bur. Sunset Mem. Cem, San 

Antonio, Tx) m. Lilly Shelton ( - ) 

Con14116- Annie Catherine (Kitty) (4/3/1884 NC-10/24/1958 auto accident) 

m 12/1/1905 Gordon Wilfong ( - ) 

Con14117- Martha Virginia (Mattie) (2/6/1886 Catawba Co.,NC-9/7/1974 

Newton,NC) m. 9/14/1910 James Carlyle Wilfong (1/15/1884-9/28/1974) 

(Neal D. Wilfong Cht-'84) 

Con14118- Carl Blake (4/10/1888 NC-1/12/1946 bur. E. View Cem., Newton, 

NC) m. 12/26/1932 Floy Trollinger ( - ) served in WWI 

Con14119- Winnie Davis (11/20/1889 NC- ) m. 8/7/1910

Charles Shuford ( - ) 

Con1411a- Ralph Hasten (7/4/1891 NC-2/12/1948 bur. Grace Cem) m. 4/29/1912 

Mabel Shoaf ( - ) 

Con1411b- Francis Earl (7/8/1893 NC-8/_/1982 (SSN)) m. 10/18/1934 

Zola McCracken ( - ) 

Con1411c- Henry Conrad (3/19/1896 NC-12/_/1978 res NC (SSN)) m. 2/16/1922 

Mollie Wise ( - ) served in WWI 

Con1411d- Marie Louise (9/9/1898 NC-4/1/1961) m. 

Hyrle Leonard ( - ) 

Con1411e- Charlotte Augusta (12/29/1901- 

) m. 2/22/1930 Clifton 

Hilton 

( -11/18/1950) no issue 

Con1412- Julius Montfort Yoder (10/7/1853-11/29/1925) m1. 12/25/1875 

Mary Susan (Mollie) Tillman ( -7/14/1901) m2. 1902 

Sugar Tillman ( - ) all bur. Van Wyck, SC Cemetery 

(Yodres in NC-pg84) 

w1 

Con14121- Sue Leo (12/7/1880-1/17/1933) m. 6/14/1899 J.H. Bates 

( - ) bur. Van Wyck, SC- 8 children 

Con14122- Clyde Ernest (10/13/1883-10/10/1921) m1. 

Victoria Collier 

( - ) m2. Pearl Martin ( - ) 

m3. 

Helen Edwards ( - ) bur. Abbeville,SC 

Con14123- Cecil Randolph (8/16/1885-6/5/1943) m. 12/26/1906 Cora Middleton 

( - ) 

Con14124- Julius Herman (10/24/1887-10/16/1957) m. 7/15/1926 Barbara 

Rudisill ( -3/8/1939) 

Con14125- Henry Tillman (9/2/1889-9/11/1946) m. Sara Martin ( - ) 

res. Ga. 

Con14126- Kirk McRoy (6/4/1891-4/2/1950) m. 6/15/1912 

Edna Mae Hyatt ( - ) bur. Van Wyck Cem. 

Con14127- infant- died young 


w2 

Con14129- son- died at birth 

Con1412a- Mary Bell ( -age 10) 

Con1415- Colin Monroe Yoder (6/30/1863 NC-3/8/1953) m. Emma Clementine 

Yoder (Con1325) (12/-/1865 NC-7/2/1951) both bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem. 

(Yoders of NC-p.94) (1900- Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp) 

Con14151- Stella (7/18/1887 NC-7/31/1969) m. 6/6/1920 John W. Stroup ( - 

7/5/1967) both bur. Gaston Memorial Park, Gatson, NC) 

Con14152- Fred Roy (12/12/1888 NC-4/29/1887) m. 6/22/1923 Wilma Porter 

( - ) 

Con14153- Clara Belle (1/4/1891 NC-8/1/1966) m. John William Cable 

( -10/4/1964) 

Con14154- Lucy Emma (7/30/1892 NC-9/9/1933 auto accident, Chicago,Il)

m Rev. C. O. Lippard ( -9/9/1933 Chicago,Il-auto accident) 

Con14155- Monroe Craig (12/7/1893 NC-5/11/1959) m. 6/30/1921 

Ethel Setzer ( - ) bur. Catawba Mem. Park, near Hickory,NC 

Con14156- Rosa Rebecca (8/16/1895 NC- ) m. 6/29/1919 Sidney Michum 

( - ) 

Con14157- Annie Laura (1/12/1897 NC-12/20/1967) single bur. Hickory, 

Oakland Cem. 

Con14158- Edwin Moses (8/11/1899 NC-7/_/1985 res NC (SSN)) m. 7/25/1928 

Myrtice Logue ( - ) 

Con14159- Ward Herman (2/3/1901-1/24/1942 bur. Hickory, Oakwood cem) 

m 7/27/1929 Annie Sigmon ( - ) 

Con1415a- John Yates (12/6/1902-7/29/1989) m. 12/27/1926 

Leah Miller (7/10/1907-2/19/2001) 

Con1415b- Sterling Hubert (10/9/1904-12/29/1920 gunshot wound in 

hunting accident, bur. Grace Cem) 

Con142 Cyrus Yoder d. Feb. 8,1865 bur. Oakwood Cem., 

Camp Douglas POW Camp, IL m. Feb.22,1855 Lincoln Co,NC 

Elizabeth Leonard (1831-Aug. 7,1907) 

+Con1421- Michael Andrew Lee b. Apr. 6,1856 m1. Martha 

Isabelle Irene Abernathy (9/23/1860-3/10/1884 Lincoln Co) 

m2. Susan Abernathy d. Nov.2, 1924 bur. Grace Church Cem. 

+Con1422- Peter Raymond b.Aug.19,1858 m. Sarah Seitz 

d. Sep.21,1930 bur. Grace Church Cem. farmer 

Con1423- Sterling Lervick b. 12/-/1861 NC never married 

d. Weaverville, NC bur. Weaverville Cem. 

(1900- Buncombe, Ashville) 

Con1421- Michael Andrew Lee Yoder (4/6/1856 NC-11/2/1924) m1. 

Martha Isabelle Irene Abernathy (9/23/1860 NC-3/10/1884 Lincoln Co) m2. 

Susan (Louise) Abernathy (1/_/1864 NC- ) all bur. Grace Church Cem. 

(1880 & 1900- Catawba Jacobs Fork Twp) 

w1 

Con14211- Cyrus Nolan (1/2/1880 NC-1966) m1. 2/4/1912 Myrtle May 

Moorhead ( - ) m2. 9/2/1952 Elsa E. Meyers ( - 

) 

bur. Oroville Cem., Calif. 

Con14212- Lester Ray (Leslie) (8/18/1881 NC-1/1/1954) m. 9/30/1907 

Sarah Alice Drake ( - ) bur. Beaumont, Tx. 

Con14213- Lillie Catherine (2/24/1884 NC-9/17/1965 bur. Portland,Or) 

m Alfred Martin West ( - ) 

w2 

Con14214- Meta Ida (11/9/1887 NC-7/29/1956) bur. Wesley Chapel Cem. 

res. Calif. (1900 census b. 11/-/1886) 

Con14215- Robert Ellis (2/6/1888 NC-3/4/1964) single bur. Wesley Chapel Cem. 

Con14216- Bonnie (8/23/1890 NC-6/1/1913) single bur. Wesley Chapel Cem. 

Con14217- Viola Lee (5/5/1892 NC- 1969) single

Con14218- Eva Junie (Evelyn) (3/15/1894 NC- ) m. 

Lee Seitz ( - ) 

Con14219- Peter Grady (6/29/1895 NC-8/9/1965) m. 1920 

Lizzie Kate Ashebranner ( - ) bur. Grace Cem. 

Con1421a- Zeb ( 

-in childhood) bur. Grace Cem. 

Con1421b- Clara Kate (12/24/1899 NC- ) m. 

Robert Hatley ( - ) 

Con1421c- Sarah Rebecca (Sally) (7/10/1901- ) m. 

M Cunningham ( - ) 

Con1421d- Jennie Ida (11/29/1902-4/24/1943) m. 

Dalton Abernathy Whitener ( - ) bur Wesley Chapel Cem 

Con1421e- Samuel Scruggs (7/2/1904-6/14/1963) single 

bur. Wesley Chapel Cem. 

Con1421f- Dallas Milan (2/7/1906-1/_/1980 res NC) single 

Con1421g- Dorothy Aldine (3/11/1909- ) m. 

Fred Moore ( - ) no issue 

Con1422- Peter Raymond Yoder (8/9/1858 NC-9/21/1930) m. 

Sarah Seitz (2/4/1863 NC-2/11/1905) both bur. Grace Church Cem. farmer 

(Yoders of NC-page 115) (1900 census- Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp) 

Con14221- Bessie (3/1/1882 NC- ) m1. Peter L. Ward ( - 

) 

m2 Wade Whisnant ( - ) 

Con14222- Florence (12/11/1883-1895) bur. Grace Church 

Con14223- Raymond Eugene (1/8/1886 NC-12/25/1966) single 

Con14224- Jettie Louella (10/1/1887 NC- ) m. 

Norris Baker ( - ) 

Con14225- Edgar Theodore (11/1/1889 NC-11/_/1971 (SSN)) m. 

Marie Epsy Whitener ( - ) 

Con14226- Oliver Theodor (11/1/1889 NC-10/27/1923) m. 

Dessie Heavner ( - ) 

Con14227- Herbert Lee (10/7/1891 NC-10/_/1967 res NC) m. 

Anne Terrell ( - ) 

Con14228- Alma Rebecca (6/27/1893 NC-11/23/1958) m. 

Lester Johnson ( - ) bur. Monticello Mem. Park, 

Charlotteville,Va. 

Con14229- Lowell Peter (5/31/1896 NC-1944) m. 

Flossie Whitener ( - ) bur. Hickory Oakwood Cem. 

Con1422a- Phillip Loy (6/2/1899 NC-5/23/1960) bur. Grace Church Cem. m. 

Parthine Rockett ( - ) 

Con1422b- Sterling Olan (1/31/1905-2/_/1980 res NY (SSN)) m. 

______ res. Roslyn Heights, Long Island, NY- 4 children 

Con15 Peter Yoder d. ca1870 near Farmington, MO 

bur. Oakland Cem. near Farmington 

m1. May 18,1832 Lincoln Co., NC Rachel Hahn (Jun.1806- ca1859) 

(per LexiKEy1@aol.com- Rachael b. 12/25/1815 Lincoln Co., NC; daughter of

Christian Sr HAWN and Anna Magdelena _____) 

moved to MO c1850,bur Oakland Cem. 

m2. ca 1862 Martha Covington (ca1836TN- ) 

Con151- Irveis Erwin b. Oct.6, 1833 

Con152- Malinda b. Sep.23, 1835 m. John W. Jacobs 

m. Sep.16,1860 St. Francois Co, Mo "three children" 

Con153- Johannes (John) Sidney b.Apr. 2,1837 "went to Miss" 

(Co F 10 MO Inf) 

Con154- Sarah b. Nov.27,1838 m. Jun.30,1861 St. Francois Co, Mo 

John Morgan "lived near Farmington, had four children" (3g1b) 

d. Dec.11, 1919 

Con155- James b. Dec.17,1840 

Con156- Newton b. Oct.14,1843 

(Co D 12 Mo Inf) 

+Con157- Franklin b. May 20, 1846 

(? 1880- Cape Giradeau Co, Mo) 

Con158- Barbara b. Nov.14,1848 

Con159- Mary Elizabeth b. Mar. 22, 1864 m. ? "had 5 children" 

d. ? by 1880 

+Con15a- William Peter b. Aug.31,1866 (St.Genevieve Co,MO) 

Con15b- Virginery Caroline b. Sep. 24, 1868 m. Henry Wiggins 

Con15c- Samuel H. 11/2/1871 (?m Mary b.1875 MO) 

(1900-St Louis as "bil Henry Wiggins") 

Con157- Franklin Yoder (Yoeter) (5/20/1846 Tn or 8/-/44 NC- ) 

m. Mary Eliza ______ (7/-/1848 Tn- ) 

(1880& 1900- Cape Giradeau Co, Mo) 

Con1571- Rosetta (c1870 Tn- ) 

Con1572- Wm. (9/-/1870 Tn- ) m. Sallie ____ (c1871 Tn- ) 

(1900- Cape G. Co, Mo) 

Con1573- James F. (8/-/1873 Tn- ) m. Nora ____ (10/-/1871 Mo- 

) res. 1900 Ripley Co, Mo, son Carl or Earl b. 7/-/99 Mo 

(Obit-"Modesto Bee, March 15, 1938 -Near Empire, March 13th, James Frank Yoder. 

Husband of Nora Yoder of Modesto; brother of William and Martin Yoder of 

Missouri, 

Mrs. May Hahs, Mrs. Frank Long and Mrs. James Masters, all of Missouri. A native 

of Tennessee, aged 64 years.-Friends are invited to attend the funeral services 

at the 

Sovern Funeral Home Tuesday at 2 P.M. Interment, Jackson, MO.) 

Con1574- John (c1875 Mo- ) 

Con1575- Kate (c1877 Mo- ) 

Con1576- Martin Van Buren (4/-/1879 Mo- ) 

Con1577- Zoa (2/-/1883 Mo- ) 

Con1578- Mary May (11/-/1887 Mo- ) 

Con1579- Bettie- Belle (9/-/1889 Mo- ) 

Con157a- Amy-Lou (1/-/1893 Mo- ) 

Con157b- Burte-Odella (7/-/1894 Mo- )

Con15a- William Peter Yoder (8/31/1866-1934 Leadmines,MO) 

m. Dec.4,1895 Bonne Terre, MO to Annie Jane Ross 

(Oct.18,1873 Potosi,MO- Nov.23,1942 Bonne Terre, MO) 

(1900-St. Louis, Mo; Edwin E. Yoder Chart-'85) 

Con15a1- Millard William b. ca1899 MO or 2/-/97 Mo 

Con15a2- Stanley Ross b. ca1900 MO or 3/-/98 Mo 

Con15a3- Thelma Mae b. ca1908 MO 

Con15a4- Darwin Pete (5/30/1911 Bonne Terre,MO- 

3/28/1993 Bonne Terre,MO) m. 11/29/1932 

Farmington,MO to Lela Nellie Pettus 

Con15a5- Dorothy b. ? 

JACOB YODER 

Con2 Jacob Yoder (12/13/1767 Lincoln Co., NC-summer 1843 Monroe Co., I) 

No marker, but believed bur. Payne cem., Old Hwy 37, 4 m N of Bloomington. 

Per grandson Frank- Jacob was "5'9" tall & heavy set, light brown hair, 

couldn't read" bur. Paine Cem 4 mi N of Bloomington m.c1799 Catherine 

Dellinger (3/6/1782 Lincoln Co, NC-1862 Harrison Co,MO). Catherine was 

d/o John Dellinger and Barbara Whitener. She's bur. Payne Cem., Harrison 

Co, Mo.- 8m W of Hwy 69 & 1 m S of Mo.-Ia. line. No marker. 

Jacob inherited 130 acres from father and sold it 12/21/1791 to brothers John 

and David. Lived on Jacob's Fork tract of 98 acre. Added 226 acres in 1803 

and added 2 1/2 more acres in 1812. All was sold in 1814 to Jacob Shuford. 

Moved to KY then IN. In Clark Co, I by 12/13/1817 when he was aptd admin 

for the estate of his brother Elias. By 1830 was in Bean Blossom Creek, 

Bloomington Twp., Monroe Co, I . By 1850 Catherine was in Jackson Twp. 

Brown Co, I. By 1857 to Eagleville, Harrison Co, Mo with son John. moved to 

MO in 1854 with son John, res. with dau. Margaret Jackson, age "90" 1860 

census. bur. in Cem.W of Big Creek) (per Lexikay1@aol.com -daughter of 

John Phillip Jr DELLINGER and Barbara WEIDNER; and "Henrich Weidner 1717-1792 

and Catharina Mull Weidner 1733-1804" (1992 by Anne Williams McAllister-YODER 

research by Kathy Gunter Sullivan)) 

Con21-Mary " Polly" (twin) b. Jul.12, 1800 m. Apr.25, 1821 

Clark Co., IN to Conrad Yoder (Con31) 

d. Nov.23, 1886. Buried Wesley Grove Cemetery, Andrews Co.,MO. 

Con22- George (c1802-1871 Monroe Co., Mo) m 10/6/1848 Monroe Co,In 

Elizabeth Goss (1850 cens Geo. age 48 b NC, Elizabeth age 30 b. Va) 

(per "Henrich Weidner 1717-1792 and Catharina Mull Weidner 1733-1804" 

(1992 by Anne Williams McAllister-YODER research by Kathy Gunter Sullivan)- 

marriage data list no previous marriages for either, 

if true who was George Yoder m. 4/22/1830 Monroe Co., IN to 

Betsy (Elizabeth) Short?) 

+Con23- Henry (July or 8/15/1804 -1871) 

+Con24- Emmanuel (5/5/1806 NC-1903 age 97) 

Con25- Catherine (twin) (7/12/1800- 

) m. 1/22/1835 Monroe Co., 

In to Philip Henry (c1784->1850) res. 1850 in Greencastle, 

Putnam Co, IN "children all dead"

Con26- Barbara (1809-

space 3 still res. of Floyd Co IA as of 1880 census. Founded the town 

of Shell City, Mn. reportedly lived in Oregon,in 1922 res. Seattle, WA 

(has a stone with no date at rock Grove Cem. Nora Springs) 

m1. Aug.5, 1855 Monroe Co., In Armelda "Millie" McHenry 

(5/3/1836IN-Dec.24,1876 40y7mo21ds) 

m2. July 4,1878 Sophia L. Cox (Stevens) (c1851 - 1927 age 92(sic)) 

(p.s. Pat Pangman, on the Doran side, said that F.M. Yoder had been in 

Saskatchewan prior to going on to Washington, so will keep working that.) 

Con2321- William H. b. ca1857 IA d. Sep.19,1872 15y11m18d 

bur. Rock Grove Cem., Nora Springs, IA. 

+Con2322- James M. "Jim" b. ca1859 IA. Moved 1886 from Madison, SD to Fargo, 

SD 

Con2323- Infant b. d. Jun.2,1863 1 day 16 hours 

bur. Rock Grove Cem., Nora Springs,IA 

Con2324- Anna b. ca Dec. 1869 d. Mar.1, 1870 4m 5d 

bur. Rock Grove Cem. ,Nora Springs,IA 

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Francis M and Armilda are my great-great grandparents. James Marion was born 

in Iowa 10 Sept, 1858. (although his obituary states his father was J.F. 

Yoder, more later). Armilda died, and F.M. married Sophie. In 1885 census 

they were in Shell City, Minnesota, where they bought ownership of the town. 

They owned several businesses there, including the Yoder Haus hotel. 

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Wonderful site!!! My sister has been doing family research on the Yoder 

side, and sent info that my dad sent me, so she really gets the credit. 

My great-grandfather, James Marion Yoder, son of Francis Marion Yoder, 

is the one who took the picture of Miss Edna Yoder in Shell city, MN, in 1884. 

Shell city was founded in part by francis M. Yoder. James M. Yoder married 

Margaret Etta Doran in Shell City in Aug 1882. The Yoders then moved to 

Menahga, then to Fargo, North Dakota in 1886. We never knew where our 

great-grandparents came from (after Iowa), until a few years ago when our 

father, Donald Yoder was looking at property less than 5 miles from the 

original Shell City site, and was asked by the Wadena County Historical 

society if he was related to the Yoders who founded Shell City!!!! 

The county owns the property of shell city now, and there are signs locating 

all of the original buildings, such as the Yoder House hotel, school, etc. 

For more info, please contact my sister, who has done all of the research, 

and needs the credit--Nancy Yoder email--Cats Paw@aol.com 

Patricia (Yoder) Cheney 

Bulverde, TX USA - Monday, March 16,1998. 

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Con2322- James M. "Jim" Yoder b. ca1859 IA. Moved 1886 from Madison, 

SD to Fargo, SD. James M., was teacher, also postmaster, and he married 

Margaret Etta Doran, (Maggie, born 27 Sept, 1866), daughter of John and Mary 

Doran from Ontario (formerly of Ireland).Their wedding was 30 Aug, 1882. The 

town died, because the railroad did not come into Shell City. The Yoder's

and Dorans moved on to Fargo, Dakota Territory on Feb 26, 1886. North Dakota 

became a state in 1889. My James M. was a salesman, and after the great 

Fargo fire, in 1893, ordered two railroad boxcars of goods, and sold them 

from there. 

children: 

Con23221- Claude Francis born 20 April, 1887, married Inga Marie Malland Jan 

18, 1908. They had a son, George albert, born 27 Dec 1911. According to the 

1920 census, it lists George, age 8 as a nephew living with James M., but my 

dad says it is him, a grandson. Claude died in 1931 of a heart attack in the 

projection room of the Fargo Theatre. He was disabled due to a "gas" attack 

in WWI. 

Con23222- William Albert (Wid), 12 Feb, 1889. I vaguely remember him. Wife 

was Julia, three kids, Robert, Marlys, Bruce. Bruce always came to our lake 

cottage, remember him building an air boat, which capsized with my dad, 

sister and I. He married a Marlys. Died in 1993 

Con23223- Ethel Mae b. 23 Jan 1891. Single all her life. Was a lab tech. 

Lived in house with my grandfather. Had all family papers, along with family 

Bible, which she instructed minister to never give to family members. This 

is why we are struggling to recreate info. My dad is probably the last of 

this clan. 

Con23224- Earl Doran, b. 12 June, 1892. Supposedly moved to Sumner, Washington. 

Con23225- James Colburn b. 7 January 1895. My grandfather. His middle name is 

also found as Colbert, but in my g-grandfather's history book that he taught 

school from, and recorded family infor, it is clearly written Colburn. He 

spent WWI in France. Married Eleanor Tovaas and later divorced. One son, 

Donald Allen Yoder, born 30 April, 1933. Worked for railway express 

(Northern pacific) for 43 years. Active as a Shriner. Died Jan, 1970 

Donald Allen Yoder, married Dorothy Eleanor Ackerson, 27 Sept 1952 

1. Patricia Anne Yoder (me) 7 Dec 54 married (div) Dale Eugene 

Dunn 1976 

Michelle Jeannette Dunn 4 May, 1979 

James Dale Dunn 15 Oct 1980 

Alisa Jeanette Becker-Dunn 19 April 1999 

2. Nancy Lynn , born 17 July 1956. Married and divorced Arlen Truitt 

Lori Eleanor Yoder, born 15 June 1960.. Married and divorced Duke Spurgeon. 

Now married to James Cookman 

Eric Donald Spurgeon, 19 Mar 1989 

Tyler Jay Spurgeon, 1_ Nov 1992 

3. James Albert Yoder, born and died 19 Mar 1964 

Con23226- Ada Louise, born 26 Feb 1897 married name Mee. Died 1965 Had two 

children I know of, a James and Elaine. Elaine Hargrave died 24 November, 

2000. She and my dad worked to remember info. 

Con23227- Myrtle Ruth , 24 May, 1898. She was active in women's physical 

education on the collegiate level, mostly in south Dakota. Married Jerome G. 

Messenger 5 July 1923. I think she had at least one daughter. 

Con23228- Ralph John b. 29 April 1900. Married a Josephine something. Ran 

Yoder Ambulance company in Fargo. Died in 1980s

Con23229- Alice Margaret b. 21 April, 1903. Have 1934 written after her name, 

wonder if that is when she died. Don't know anything else. 

Con2322a- Charles W. b. 21 October, 1905. 

Con233 John David "Dave" Yoder (11/12/1839 Monroe, In-10/6/1922 Liberty,Mo 

at the Odd Fellows Ret. Home, bur. Lockwood Cem) m. Apr.18,1858 

Melvina Lyons (5/-/1839 OH-4/8/1919 Dade Co., Mo) 

?res 1880 Carroll Co.ARK, Eureka Springs; 1900 Dade Co.,MO 

Lockwood,MO. 

Con2331- Ada Viola "Addie" (c1860 Floyd Co,Ia-3/17/1937 Corpus 

Christi, Tx) m. Perry A. Crow 

Con2332- Eva A. (9/10/1875-2/13/1935 Springfield, Green Co,Mo) 

Bur. Lockwood Cem. Dade Co, Mo. m. Wilford A. Pollard ( - ) 

Con235 William Henry "Bill" Yoder (3/22/1845 Monroe Co,In-8/17/1921 

Bloomington, Monroe Co, I) bur.Mt. Gilead Cem. Bloomingtom) 

m. Dec.1, 1864 Catherine Adelaide "Addie" Van Buskirk (Feb.9, 1846 

Monroe Co.,In -1924) (d/o Isaac Shelby Van Buskirk and Elizabeth Gabbert) 

("Henrich Weidner 1717-1792 and Catharina Mull Weidner 1733-1804" (1992 by 

Anne Williams McAllister-YODER research by Kathy Gunter Sullivan)) resided- 

Monroe Co, In-Floyd Co, Ia- Dakota Ter. 

-Back to Monroe Co,In in 1898) 

+Con2351- Albert Henry b. Feb.15,1866 Rock Grove, Floyd Co,IA 

Con2352- Isaac Eldorus b. Feb.27,1868 

d. Feb. 19,1873 Austin, MN age 4y 11m 20 d 

Bur. Rock Grove Cemetery, Nora Springs,IA. 

Con2353- Lewis Monroe b. Sep. 7,1870 IA 

d. Aug. 5,1890 Madison, SD 

+Con2354- William Arthur b. Dec.23,1874 Nora Springs,IA 

Con2355- Hester b. Nov.20,1881 d. Nov.29.1901 Bloomington,IN 

Con2351 Albert Henry Yoder (2/15/1866 Rock Grove,I-9/22/1940) bur. Acacia 

Cemetery Seattle, Washington m. 6/11/1894 Irvington, IN to Susan Norton 

Griggs (11/5/1869 Madison,IN - 8/16/1953) also Acacia Cem.- one time residents 

of Grand Forks.ND (Albert Yoder papers-U of ND; Hubert A. Yoder research; 

1900-Knox Co, Vincennes,I) 

Con23511- Leverett Griggs b. Aug.3,1895 Indianapolis,IN 

m1. Feb.14,1920 Dorothy Cloutier ( - 1961) 

m2. Elizabeth Kollar Luty 

d. May 1,1980 bur. Arlington Nat. Cem.Sec.8,gr.494LH 

Con23512- Miriam b. Sep.10,1896 Vincennes,IN m. Aug.17,1921 

Miles K. Lander ( - May 8,1967) d. Apr.20,1981 

both bur. Memorial Park Cem,Grand Forks, ND 

Con23513- Charlotte May b. Feb.26,1899 Vincennes,IN 

m1. Mar.19,1926 L.G. Lust m2. Lieman Roose 

m3. Marshall Culter m4. Gunnar Anderson, Gothenburg, 

Sweden d. Dec.5,1985 bur. Hillside Cem., White Water, 

WI Lot 154,Grave A, Sec.K (with 3d husband)

Con23514- William Albert (Al) b. Feb.21, 1902 Seattle, WA 

m. Naomi Edlund d. Dec.22,1948 bur. Dec.28,1948 

Sunset memorial Park, Hoquiam, Wash. 

Con23515- Frederick Griggs b. Mar.19,1904 Seattle, WA 

bur. Apr.25,1955 Acacia Cem., Seattle,WA single 

Con23516- Paul Van Buskirk b. Oct.8, 1908 Tacoma, WA 

d. Apr.4,1990 Hendersonville, NC no issue 

m1. Maxine Thompson m2 Roselyn Pease ( - 

Sep.30,1977) 

Con2354 William Arthur Yoder (Dec.23,1874 Nora Springs,IA- 

Jun.13,1942 Minneapolis,MN) cremation Lakewood cem. m. 

Bessie Ann_______ occupation Insurance res. MN as of 1924. 

Con236 Thomas "Tom" Rader Yoder (3/10/1848 Bloomington,I- 

2/25/1922 Oldham,SD at 12:30 in afternoon. bur. with wife Pleasantview 

Cem. m. Mar.21,1869 Rock Grove, Ia to Mrs. Margaret S. Forbes Hull 

(Oct. 17,1844 WI- Jul.17,1912 Oldham,SD)("Henrich Weidner 1717-1792 and 

Catharina Mull Weidner 1733-1804" (1992 by Anne Williams McAllister-YODER 


TRY moved at 8 to Floyd Co,IA and 1881 to Dakota 

Con2361- Gertrude (Mertie Gertrude) b. Dec. 1869 Rock Grove,IA 

d. Jan.18,1870 age 6 weeks Rock Grove Cem. 

Con2362- Bertha Erdine b. Nov.25,1870 Rock Grove, IA 

m.Jan.29,1893 Oldham,SD to Charles H. Baker 

res. of Oldham as of 1922 

Con2363- Minnie Undine b. Jan.27,1873 Austin, Mn 

m. Jun.30,1895 Oldham, SD to Henry D. Packard 

3 children res. Oldham as of 1922 

Con2364- Lela Lillian b. Jul. 15,1876 IA 

d. Jan.3,1881 age 3y 5m Rock Grove Cem. 

Con2365- Daisey Josephine b. Feb.24, 1878 Rock Grove,IA 

m. Howard G. Rottluff res. of Matsqui, B.C. as of 1922 

Con24 Emanuel Yoder (5/5/1806 Lincoln, NC-12/18/1903 age 97) 

bur Rock Grove Cem. Nora Springs, IA. m. 9/23/1832 Monroe Co.,IN 

to Rachel Shirley (Apr.12, 1811 KY- Jan.15, 1898) bur. Rock Grove Cem. 

("Henrich Weidner 1717-1792 and Catharina Mull Weidner 1733-1804" 

(1992 by Anne Williams McAllister-YODER research by Kathy Gunter Sullivan)) 

Con241- Mary E. (c1833 Monroe Co, In- ) 

m. 8/17/1851 George A. McHenry (c1831 In- ) 

(per letter by HA Yoder- m. Sep.17,1874 ________Sullivan) 

Con242- Sarah C. (c1836 In Monroe Co,In- ) 

m. Oct. 30, 1858 Floyd Co., Ia to John McHenry (c1838 In- ) 

Con243- Ruth Ann (4/-/1839 Monroe Co., In-1929 Floyd Co, Ia) 

m. 10/30/1858 Henry Bumgardner (5/30/1829 Oh-1/16/1903) 

both bur. Rock Grove Cem. 

+Con244- John Jasper b. Apr.12, 1841 IN

Con244- John Jasper Yoder (4/12/1841 Monroe Co, In-12/25/1927 Floyd 

Co, Ia) res. Monroe Co.IN and Floyd Co.,IA m. Amanda M. Rader 

(12/18/1842 IN-9/23/1896) both bur. Rock Grove Cemetery 

Con2441- Charles E. b. Nov.22,1869 IA m. ? 

d. Jul.19,1947 a retired farmer , survived by one 

daughter Gladys Yoder of Seattle, WA. 

bur. Rock Grove Cemetery 

Con2442- Cora B. b. ca1874 IA 

Con29- Jacob Yoder d. Jun.12, 1885 Jackson Township, Brown Co.,IN 

bur. Lanam Ridge Cem. near helmsburg, In m. 5/17/1837 Monroe Co, In 

Mary "Polly" Jackson (1820IN or 1822KY- Ok after 1900). Moved to 

Brown Co 1845 from Monroe Co. (Weidener Book) 

+Con291- James M. b. Apr.21, 1843 IN 

Con292- George Henry (c1845 Monroe Co. In- ) 

(m. ? license taken by George Yoder and Sarah Branum, marriage 

shown 9/3/1863 George Yoder to Charlotte Monroe) 

+Con293- John D. b. ca1847 Brown Co., In. 

Con294- Martha Jane (5/9/1850-1921 Yukon Ok) 

m. Jan.26,1868 Brown Co.,In. to James P. Gray 

+Con295- Edward b. Mar. 1852 

+Con296- William Jacob b. ca1854 

Con297- Thomas J. b. ca1856 m.Mar.26,1883 Cerro Gordo Co., 

IA to Rosa L. Hansen res. of Rock Falls,IA. 

+Con298- Willard (Wm.C)- b. May 6, 1860 

+Con299- Westford (Wm.Wesley) b. May,6,1860 

Con29a- Alice b. ca1862 

Con291- James M. Yoder (4/21/1843 Monroe Co,In-4/24/1931 Brown Co., IN) 

bur. Lanam Ridge Cem., Jackson Twp.,Brown Co.,IN m1. Mar.11,1869 Catherine 

(Sarah C.) Waltman ( - 4/25/1872 age 23y 10m 24d- in childbirth) Bur. 

Bean Blossom Cem. m2. Sep.11/12, 1872 Eliza Jane Baughman 

(11/3/1853- 12/20/1934 81y 1m 16d) Lanam Ridge Cem. Civ. War Pension-Co 

D 82nd Indiana Inf. Republican, farmer and livestock merchant, Georgetown 

Presbyterian ("Henrich Weidner 1717-1792 and Catharina Mull Weidner 1733-1804" 

(1992 by Anne Williams McAllister-YODER research by Kathy Gunter Sullivan), 

1920 Ind, Jane Murphy research, Russell E. Yoder Cht '85, Bret Eberle-'97) 

+Con2911- Marion E. b. ca1870 m. Jan.3, 1892 Emma A. Myars 

( -4/23/1949) res. Indianapolis 1931, Helmsburg 1934 

d.2/28/1946 Indianapolis,In 

Con2912- girl b. 1872 d. 1872 

Con2913- Jacob Ira b. 1873 m. Rachel Deckard (d.Aug.1,1944 

Indianapolis, bur. Lanam Ridge) 

d. Dec.18,1963 bur. Lanam Ridge Cem. 

Con2914- Ida C. b. Apr.26, 1875 m. Aug.9, 1891 to John 

Prosser ( - d.Oct.7,1943) d. Apr.13, 1961 

bur. Bean Blossom Cem., Jackson Twp., Brown Co.

Con2915- Cyrus b.Sep.18,1877 d. Sep.28,1877 bur. Lanam Ridge 

Con2916- Myrtle (c1879-

Con2935- Walter (7/19/1883 Ozark Co. Mo-12/25/1959 Pottawatomie, 

Shawnee Co., Ok) bur. FAIRVIEW Pottawatomie, Ok) m. 2/20/1909 Grady, 

Chickasha, Ok Edna Beatrice Alexander 4/19/1892 Jefferson, Mt.Vernon. Il 

Con2936- James (5/8/1885 Oklahoma Terr, Grady, Chickasha -5/11/1970 

Pottawatomie, Shawnee m. 7/2/1902 Madie Fisher 

Con2937- Oskar (9/-/1888 Indian Ter.-6/-/1960) m1 

Gussie FILLY 

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"My grandmother, Genevieve Kathryn Higley Murray, 

is Ruby Renee Yoder's daughter." 

Brandy Walker Parks, 3/2000 

Dates of death for John and Jane above, and the following is 

fron Bible- 

Willard Wesley Yoder b. Nov. 30,1877 in Springfield, Missouri 

m. Jennie Mae Steele in Tecumseh, OK on Feb. 12, 1900 

d. 2/21/1960 

Grandmother knew several of W. W. 

Yoder's siblings, but doesn't 

remember all of them. She said 

"there were a bunch of them." 

The names she remembered were: 

Nettie, Mattie, Jim (who was 

the Chief of Police in Shawnee, 

Oklahoma), and Ollie. She also 

said "they use to talk about 

an Oscar but I never meet him." 

Children of Willard Wesley Yoder and Jennie Mae Steele. 

Le"Roy" Yoder b. 2/28/1901 in Byers, 

OK d. 9/17/1959 

Esta Mae Yoder b. 4/26/1903 in 

Anadarko, OK m. Claude Cattladge 

on 12/19/1919 in Tecumseh, OK 

Walter Clarence Yoder b. 6/2/1906 in 

Anadarko, OK m. Eva Ruth Philly 

on 9/12/1927 in Oklahoma City d. 

1984 in CA 

Clara Allene Yoder b. 4/17/1909 in 

Anadarko, OK d. 8/21/1911 in 

Blanchard, OK 

Ruby Renee Yoder b.10/4/1910 in 

Blanchard, OK m. 10/6/1928 in 

Shawnee, OK to Harold James 

Higley d.6/21/1978 

Cecil Boyd Yoder b. 12/27/1912 in 

Blanchard, OK m. 8/1/1930 in

Shawnee, OK to Pauline Taylor 

d. 1/19/1949 in Shawnee, OK 

Marvin A. Yoder b. 2/1/1914 in 

Blanchard, OK m. 6/29/1933 in 

Shawnee, OK to Lorene Hughes 

d. 10/25/1960 in Shawnee, OK 

My grandmother, Genevieve Kathryn Higley Murray, 

is Ruby Renee Yoder's daughter.-Brandy Walker Parks 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Con295 Edward Yoder d. 

m. Feb.22, 1876 Felissa (Felina) Watkins 

Con296 William J. (Jacob) Yoder (c1854 In-11/-/1933 Frederick, Ok) 

m. Jun.12, 1877 Brown Co.,IN to Nancy A. (Nan) Mavity 

( ca1854IN - ) res. Chandler, Ok 

Con2961- Edward Evertt b. 1887 IN 

m. Maude_____ to California after 1920 

(?SSN Record- An Edward (4/2/1887-4/-/1982 in Ca) 

Con2962- John Max b. Mar. 27,1880 Nashville, Brown Co., IN 

m. 1907 Martha Pearlee Ward (1/_/1888or9-4/18/1974) 

d. Apr. 29,1968 Chandler, OK (Lincoln Co.) 

bur. Forrest Cem. 

Con2963- Portle (Purtle) b. 1890 IN 

d. ? "came home laying across his horse- shot to death" 

******************************************************* 

Submission by Fred Haines- 1996 

Con297 - Thomas J YODER 

born 8 Oct 1854, Brown County, Indiana 

marr 26 Mar 1883, Cerro Gordo Country, Iowa 

died 15 Jan 1944, Puyallup, Washington 

spouse - Rose L HANSEN 

born Dec 1862, (Racine County?), Wisconsin 

died 

I believe that Thomas J Yoder was still in Brown County, Indiana, 

at the time of the 1880 census, but that there were Yoders 

already living in Floyd County, Iowa, by that time, notably, I 

reckon, offspring of Henry Yoder (Con23) and Ruth Ann Radler or 

Rader, both of whom had died in Floyd County before 1880. Their 

son Francis Marion (Con232) was reported in Floyd County in the 

1880 census, along with some children. Floyd County is the next 

county east of Cerro Gordo County in the north central part of 

the state. (It is named after a then-famous victory, of 1847, in 

the Mexican war. The first white people settled there in 1851. It 

also gave us the word 'tractor,' when, in 1902, the sales manager

of the Hart Parr Factory in Charles City decided that 'gasoline 

traction engine' was just too damned long to attract customers.) 

I believe Thomas was looking around for a situation where he 

could take up farming and he may well have been visiting or 

working for relatives in Floyd County when he met Rose Hansen, 

who was living just over the county line in Rock Falls. 

Soon after Thomas J and Rose married they went to Minnesota, 

because their first child, Edna Verena (my grandmother), was born 

in Shell River Township, Wadena County, in Minnesota on 25 August 

1884, less than two years after the marriage, and I have her 

birth certificate and a photograph of the house in which they 

were living. I believe they went there because there were other 

Yoders living there, on evidence of a note on the back of the 

photo which reads 'Miss. Edna Yoder / The house where she was 

born in 1884. / Rode view taken by J.M. Yoder / Shell City Minn / 

July 3d- 1898.' 

Who was that? I notice from the genealogy that one of the Iowa 

Yoders was James M Yoder, born around 1859 in Iowa (Con2322). He 

would have been three years younger than my great grandfather 

(and one generation removed). Just a guess. 

My Yoders seem, however, not to have stayed long in Minnesota. 

Thomas took up a double homesteading claim near Pierre, South 

Dakota (in Sully County?), one for farming and one for forestry. 

He had to give the forestry claim up, but he worked the farming 

claim for about thirty years. 

When Edna Verena married Roy Dorothy in 1906, the newlyweds went 

to Concunully, Washington, to raise apples. Some time thereafter, 

Edna's younger brother, Ralph, somehow managed to set fire to the 

barn and destroyed all the winter feed for the livestock on the 

homestead. All the animals died that winter, and Thomas sold up. 

The remaining family (possibly excepting daughter Jesse) moved to 

Washington, partly because Edna and her husband were living 

there, and partly because Rose's father had left her a house in 

Tacoma. He is supposed to have been named Ole Hansen, and family 

legend has him confused with the famous Mayor of Seattle by that 

name, but, if that Hansen is related at all (which I doubt), he 

would have had to be Rose's brother, not father. I have a 

startlingly well made photograph of all the Yoders in a photo 

studio in Puyallup, Washington, in 1915 or 1916. I would never 

have been able to figure out the date of this photo if my 

grandmother had not noted that Mazel was thirteen, as both my 

grandmother and her sister Jesse look like teenagers, although

even Jesse must have been thirty. She may well have been visiting 

Puyallup from Texas at the time. 

In any case, the Yoders settled in Puyallup, bought a 'fifteencent 

store,' and lived there until around the end of world war 

two. 

Con2971 - Edna Verena YODER 

born 25 Aug 1884, Shell River Township, Wadena County, 

Minnesota 

marr 18 May 1905, Kaspar, South Dakota 

died 23 Dec 1980, Tustin, Orange County, California 

spouse - Roy DOROTHY-12 (1882-1947) 

Edna grew up on the Yoder homestead near Pierre, South Dakota, 

and recalled seeing pioneers in covered wagons, the Ghost Dance 

rising of the Sioux Indians, and the great plains blizzards that 

destroyed the cattle industry in the 1890s. She attended a oneroom 

school until she was sixteen, at which point she became the 

teacher. A handwritten resume she prepared in order to apply for 

a civil service job in California, reveals that she spent eight 

years in South Dakota Public Schools doing 'grammar school 

subjects' until November 1899, and another few months, from April 

to November of 1900 doing 'high school subjects.' In 1901, from 

January to June, she attended high school in Gettysburg, South 

Dakota. 

She then had two stints of school teaching, one from November 

1901 to May 1902 in Sully County, at '25 or 27.50' and another 

from October 1902 to April 1903 at '27.50 to 30.' I gather those 

figures are dollars/month. The fact that these jobs were in Sully 

County leads me to believe that the family homestead was located 

in that county too. 

Family legend has it that people in the neighborhood took up a 

collection to send her to school to learn how to be a proper 

teacher, and in 1903 she went to Mankato, Minnesota, where she 

saw her first automobile - there were two in the town at the 

time. I'm not sure what happened with the education as a teacher, 

since she in fact took a course in stenography from April to 

October 1903 (and she used it all her life - I have shorthand 

notes she took of telephone calls received when she was in her 

nineties). 

For about seven months she worked halftime, at three dollars a 

week, for two different businesses in Gettysburg, until August 

1904, when she went to work for the National Bank of Commerce

in Pierre, where she roomed with the family of one of her 

coworkers, the Dorothys. 

The Dorothys had come up to Pierre around 1895 from Ute, a tiny 

town in Monona County on the western border of Iowa, and E F 

Dorothy operated several grocery stores and traded in cattle. 

They seem to have been fairly well to do as Prairie families 

went. Roy worked in the bank on the theory that there were only 

two good ways for a young man to get ahead, by going to a 

university or working in a bank, and university was not a 

possibility. E F gave his son a horse and buggy, and Roy soon 

began to drive the family's roomer to church in it, to the 

chagrin of Roy's sister, Blanche, who felt she deserved the seat. 

Roy and Edna may have eloped to marry in Kaspar, South Dakota, a 

town where neither had family or other connections that I know 

of. Their wedding announcement is an after-the-fact one, and it 

notes that after the wedding the couple would be 'at home' in 

Concunully, Washington. 

In the early twenties they moved to California, settled in 

Sacramento, and both worked for the State government until they 

retired. Both were highly placed civil servants. Roy was an 

accountant for the Board of Equalization (tax office) and Edna 

worked for any number of different boards and agencies. They had 

three children, Don Vincent Dorothy, Thelma Ruth Dorothy (my 

mother), and Carol Agnes Dorothy. 

Con2972 - Jessica 'Jesse' YODER 

born 1885, probably in or near Pierre, South Dakota 

I don't know much about Jesse except that she married twice and 

lived in Austin, Texas. She had two children by her first 

husband, Patricia Breedlove and Philip Breedlove, and two by her 

second, Robert Eastman and Margaret Eastman. 

Con2973 - Evelyn YODER 

I'm not sure of her dates of birth or death, but she died as a 

very small child of diphtheria. 

Con2974 - Ralph YODER 


Ralph, after burning down the homestead barn, moved with his 

parents to Puyallup, Washington. During world war two he was

living and working in Tacoma, Washington. He married someone 

named 'Lil,' and they had at least two children. One of them was 

named Glenna Dee and she married Robert J St Clair on 6 November 

of an indeterminate year. 

Con2975 - Mazel YODER 


Mazel also moved with her parents to Washington and was still 

living there, in Seattle, in the seventies. She married Arthur C 

'Butch' SONNTAG and had two children, Stanley SONNTAG in 1925, 

and Virginia SONNTAG in 1930. The last known address I had for 

her is 3703 Densmore Avenue, Seattle 3. A postcard from her to my 

grandmother reveals that Butch 'will be 80' on July 8, and I 

_think_ the postmark reads 1978. 

***************************************** 

Chris, 

I have learned a few things and sharpened my information since the material I 

sent 

to you the other day. The main thing is that I figured out the location of the 

Thomas J Yoder homestead - it was at Kaspar, in Sully County, South Dakota. 

Kaspar itself no longer exists, it has been folded into the town of Onida, but 

this is 

a more exact location that 'near Pierre.' 

By speaking with my Aunt Carol, I have been able to clean up the information on 

the family as well. It should read like this: 

HUSBAND Thomas J YODER (Con297) 

BORN: 8 Oct 1854 PLACE: ,Brown,Indiana,USA 

DIED: 16 Jan 1944 PLACE: Puyallup,,Washington,USA 

MARR: 26 Mar 1883 PLACE: ,Cerro Gordo,Iowa,USA 

WIFE Rose L HANSEN 

BORN: Dec 1862 PLACE: ,Racine,Wisconsin,USA 

DIED: 1944 PLACE: Puyallup,,Washington,USA 

One my grandmother's birth certificate the place of birth is given as Wisconsin. 

I 

am guessing at the Racine County, on foot of the family legend that has her 

related 

to Ole Hansen, the Mayor of Seattle, who was born in Racine County. I'm 

guessing at her date of death. The last letter in her hand is dated February 

1944. 

CHILDREN 

Edna Verena YODER (Con2971)

BORN: 25 Aug 1884 

DIED: 23 Dec 1980 

SPOUSE: Roy DOROTHY 

MARR: 18 May 1905 

PLACE: Shell River Twnp,Wadena, Minnesota,USA 

PLACE: Tustin,Orange,California,USA 

PLACE: Kaspar,Sully,South Dakota,USA 

Jessica 'Jesse' YODER (Con2972) 

BORN: 31 Jan 1886 


SPOUSE 1: EASTMAN 

SPOUSE 2: BREEDLOVE 

Lived in Austin TX. 

Ralph YODER (Con2973) 

BORN: 1888 PLACE: Kaspar,Sully,South Dakota,USA Lived in 

Tacoma WA. During the war was driving a truck for the Model Bakery. His wife's 

first name was Lil and he had at least one daughter named Glenna Dee, who 

married Robert J Sinclair at the Trinity Lutheran Chapel in Parkland WA. 

Lily YODER (Con2974) 

BORN: 1890 PLACE: Kaspar,Sully,South Dakota,USA 

DIED: 1902 PLACE: Kaspar,Sully,South Dakota,USA 

This child died of diphtheria at the age of twelve. 

Mazel YODER (Con2975) 

BORN: 7 Oct 1902 


SPOUSE: Arthur C 'Butch' SONNTAG 

Lived in Seattle WA. 

In your document with the filename CONRAD.DOC, Nora Springs, Iowa, is in 

many places correctly spelled, but in quite a few others it is spelled 'Nona' 

Springs. 

The latter does not exist. Nora Springs is right on the Cerro Gordo/Floyd County 

line, which probably explains why Thomas J Yoder met and married Rose Hansen 

there. Rock Falls is within walking distance of Nora Springs. 

Did I already tell you why I think Thomas J Yoder and his bride detoured to 

Minnesota long enough for her mother, Edna V Yoder, to be born in Shell River 

Township? I looked again at a small photograph I have of the house where she 

was born, a 9 cm x 9 cm sepia photo mounted on a somewhat larger card with the 

stamp of a photo studio in Fargo ND on it. Someone wrote on the back, 'Rode 

[sic] 

view taken by J.M.Yoder / Shell City Minn / July 3d- 1895.' 

That's eleven years after my grandmother was born and long after her family had 

moved to South Dakota. Thomas J had an older brother named James M Yoder 

(Con291), but he lived and died in Brown County, Indiana. A more likely 

candidate would seem to be another James M Yoder (Con2322) among the Iowa 

Yoders. Although he was of a different generation, this James was only a few 

years younger than Thomas J. I notice that the genealogy has no further

information on James - that may be because he settled in Wadena County, 

Minnesota.---- Regards, Fred Haines (submitted Jun. 1996) 

****************************************************** 

Con298 Willard C. Yoder (5/6/1860-11/-/1913 Frederick, Tillman, Ok) 

m1. 9/26/1882 Anna B. Doan. (10/28/1863-8/l6/l898) 

( per Julie Wynn-3/99- juliewynn@excite.com) 

m2. 7/27/1899 Amanda Belle (Stephens) Kleindorfer (1/-/1863 In-1921) 

res. 1900 Okla. Census, Lincoln Co. 

Con2981- Rose Ethel (9/1/1883 Nashville, IN-7/7/1957 Frederick, Ok) 

m. 11/19/1902 Davidson, Ok Claude Almer Roberts 

Con2982- Mahlon Eldridge (1/18/1889 Ok- ) never 

married, lived and died in Yuma, AZ 

Con2983- Mary Pearl (3/12/1898 Ok- ) m. John Thrush of 

Lubbock, Tx 

Con299 William Wesley (Westford) Yoder d. 1928 Minco, Okla 

bur. Friendship Cemetery, Minco, Okla 

m1. Apr. 16, 1882 Brown Co.,IN Nancy White (ca1862IN- ) 

m2. Jul.5, 1894 Lena Schmidt (Jul 1875 OH- ) 

w1 Con2991- Jacob Wilson b. Apr 10, 1883 IN (Oct.1882 per 1900 census) 

m. Nov,29,1903 to Lillian Delories Woodard (8/2/1883-9/8/1971) 

d. Apr. 30,1942 Elgin, OK 

Con2992- Johnie b. Apr. 1885 IN 

Con2993- David b. Aug. 1886 IN 

Con2994- Annie b. Jul. 1887 IN 

Con2995- James Albert b. Feb. 1889 Indian Ter. (11/28/1899- ) 

m.12/-/1923 Georgia Bittman 

w2 Con2996- Mary b. Sep. 1895 Indian Ter. 

Con2997- Annie (2/8/1899- ) m. 5/-/1919 

Thomas Graves ( - ) 

Con 2998- Raymond (12/2/1901- ) m. 12/-/1923 

Maude Eisenman ( - ) 

Con2999- Lillian Gertrude (4/4/1904- ) m. 10/-/1923 

Everett Downey ( - ) 

Con299a- William Edward (7/8/1907- ) single 

Con299b- Ronnie Fred (4/21/1909- ) m. 4/-/1931 

Opal McBride ( - ) 

Con299c- Luther Earnest (1/29/1913- ) m. 9/-/1930 

Willie Engnam ( - ) 

Con299d- Grace Mae (3/19/1916- ) m1. 1/-/1933 

Eddie Hudson ( - ) m2. 2/-/1952 

Monte Parsons ( - ) 

Con2a Israel Yoder (c1812 Lincoln Co., NC- 10/12/1865 Monroe Co, In 

at the residence of Jackson Lentz) Prob. bur. Bethel Lane Cem. poss. 

Payne Cem. - no stone m. 10/7/1838 Monroe Co.,In by David Barrow JP 

Elizabeth (Betsy) Jackson (c1820IN-?by 1860) burial place not known

1850 census Monroe Co,IN. ("Henrich Weidner 1717-1792 and Catharina Mull 

Weidner 1733-1804" (1992 by Anne Williams McAllister-YODER research by 

Kathy Gunter Sullivan)) 

Con2a1- Priscilla (c1839 IN- 

)m. Mar.5, 1861 Monroe Co.,IN 

to George W. Payne (c1824 In- ) 

Con2a7- son (c1835-40- died by 1850) 

Con2a2- Sarah Jane (c1842 IN-1896) m. Jan.11,1864 Monroe Co.,IN 

to Jackson Lents (Lentz) (divorce husband of her Aunt Priscilla) 

(c1822 NC-12/27/1882, bur. Bethel Lane Cem. Monroe Co,In) 

Con2a3- Nancy (c1844 IN Monroe Co., In- ) m. Dec.20,1863 

Monroe Co.,IN to Isaac Brannam (c1838- 

) (s/o Jonathan Brannan 

and Mary Elizabeth Griffith) 

Con2a4- Thomas b. ca1845 IN 

Con2a5- Rebecca A. b. ca1846 IN 

Con2a6- Edward b. ca1849 IN (in 1870 listed in household of 

Jackson and Sarah Lentz, Bllomingotn Twp, Monroe Co, In)\ 

Con2a8- Francis (son) b. c1852 

Con2a9- Mary E. (c1853/1854 Monroe Co,In- ) 

m. 3 Feb 1874 Monroe Co, In Lewis W. Brannam ( - ) 

(s/o/ Milton and Elendor (Griffith) Branam) Divorced. In 1880 

Mary is listed with George and Priscilla (Yoder) Payne. 

Con2c John Yoder (c1825 Clark or Monroe Co,In-before May 6, 1867 

Harrison Co,MO) bur. Payne Cem.? m. Mar.19, 1853 Brown Co., IN 

res. Brown Co IN 1850 census, Harrison Co MO 1860-80 census 

Mary Ann Tull (1834 KY- before May 6,1867Harrison Co.,MO) 

prob. bur. Payne Cem. 

(one source said- m. Catherine Lutroo, & had a son who went to 

Kingman Co., KS) 

Con2c1- Mary Jane (Apr.1, 1854 Brown Co, IN-Mar.30, 1894 

Harrison Co. MO, buried Payne Cemetery m. Nov. 23, 1873 

Harrison Co.,MO to John Mathis (Dec.25,1840 Brown Co,IN- 

Feb. 20,1914 Harrison Co.MO) bur Payne Cem. 

(g.mother of Kathleen Kinstler,12020 SW Manzanita Ct, Tigard, Ore 97223) 

Con2c2- Elizabeth Ann (11/15/1855 IN-1/13/1935 bur. Payne Cemetery) 

(in 1860 listed as b. MO) m. Dec.27,1886 Cleveland, KS Lewis Jackson 

Thompson (978.184 V2k Kingman County Marriage Records, page 244: 

Thompson Lew J. 24 Kingman County, Kansas, Yoder Betsy Ann 24 

Kingman County, Kansas by N. Miller, JP at my office in Belmont 

Twp, Kingman Dec 27, 1886.)(" obituary - sadly the newspaper 

isn't noted - that states: "Lewis J. Thompson...was born in Pa., 

Dec 7, 1862...He then went to Kansas and while there he was 

married to Betsy A. Yoder...The angel of death entered the 

home on Wednesday morning, Feb 26, 1908..." He was buried 

in the Lone Rock Cemetery.-- Helen Dayton had1@uswest.net Apr.2002) 

Con2c3- George b. 1858 MO never married 

res. 1870 census with George Jackson family (Con2b) 

bur. Robinett Cem. Miller Co, Mo.

Con3- David Yoder d. Jul.14, 1864 bur. Grace Church Cemetery 

m. May 1791 Elizabeth Reep (ca1770-10/31/1846) bur. Grace Church 

Cemetery 

(per Lexikay1@aol.com -David married 1 Barbara REEP (b. Lincoln Co, NC.- ) 

+Con31- Conrad b. Dec. ,1793 NC 

+Con32- Adolphus b. 1795 NC 

Con33- Betsey b. Jul.24, 1796 NC never married 

deaf and dumb, d. ca1882 "age 86" 

buried Grace Church Cemetery 

(living with brother Andrew in 1880 census) 

+Con34- David b. Sep.22, 1799 

Con35- Catherine b. ca1800 NC never married 

d. ca1885 "age 85" 


Con36- Sarah b. 1804 NC never married 

bur. Grace Church Cemetery 

+Con37- Solomon b. May 17,1805 

Con38- Frannie b. 1807 NC never married 

d. ca 1895 "age 85" 


+Con39- Eli b. Apr. 1, 1810 

+Con3a- Andrew b. Jan.14, 1812 

Con31 Conrad Yoder (12/-/1793 Lincoln Co. NC-5/10/1879 Andrews Co., 

MO) m. Apr.25, 1821 by Martin Hucklesberry, Clark Co.,IN to Polly Yoder 

(Con21). Moved to Andrews Co. in 1849 near Rosendale. Veteran of the 

War of 1812. Harrison Co., Land Records- Purch. 3/26/1853 SENW 

Sec28-Twp66-R27; 3/28/1856 NENE&SWNE & S 1/2 SENW Sec28- 

Twp66-R27 Both Bur. Wesley Grove/Lower Neely Cem., Andrews Co., 

Mo (George Yoder notes, "Henrich Weidner 1717-1792 and Catharina Mull Weidner 

1733-1804" (1992 by Anne Williams McAllister-YODER research by Kathy Gunter 

Sullivan), multiple sources, 1830-Morgan 

Co. Mo; Polly resided with son Philip in 1880 census-Andrews Co,Mo) 

Con311- Jacob b. 1818 died young 

Con312- Mary b. 1819 died young 

Con313- Jane b. 1821 d. (1824) "age 4" 

Con314- girl b. ? d. 4 days old 

Con315- David ("Doc") (9/12/1820 Morgan Co, In-12/15/1910) 

bur. Lower Neeley Cem. enlisted Union Army Co G 12th MO CAV 

wounded, disability discharge never married 

+Con316- John M. b. Sep.16,1823 Clark Co, IN 

Con317- Katie (Catherine) (1827 IN-1890) 

m. Jan.7,1847in Morgan Co.,IN to Henry F. Jones (c1822 Ky- ) 

moved to MO in 1849 

Con318- Margaret b. 1829 m. 1852 George Dorrell 

d. May 21, 1882 (or 74 or 94-conflicting data) 

+Con319- George b. Mar. 2, 1836 IN

+Con31a- Philip b. Jun. 21, 1840 Martinsville, IN 

Con316- John M. Yoder (9/16/1865 Andrews Co.MO-9/16/1865) 

m. Aug.4, 1850 (or Jun 13 or Aug 18) Barnard MO or Andrews Co. to 

Sarah Willson (Aug.4,1832 IN- May 6,1906) both Bur. Bennet Lane Cem., 

Savannah, Andrews Co, Mo. ("Henrich Weidner 1717-1792 and Catharina 

Mull Weidner 1733-1804" (1992 by Anne Williams McAllister-YODER 


+Con3161- William A. b. 1852 

Con3166- Elizabeth b. d. 1853 bur. Bennett Lane Cem. 

Con3162- Susanna Catherine b. Apr.16, 1854 Andrews Co, Mo 

d. Feb.16, 1945 Springfield, MO m. Jan. 6, 1870 George Houston Tulloch 

+Con3163- George Washington b. 1860 (c1863) Andrews Co, Mo 

m1. 1889 Julia Munker --2 children died young 

m2. Hettie Burns -one child Ruby m. Carl Tilden 

Con3164- Joshua Hixson b. 1863 (c1857) Andrews Co, Mo, 

lived in Ore. as miner and sheep herder ,never married (1910- Wash. Co, Ida) 

d. May 1934 MO bur. Hopedale Cem near Ozark,MO 

Con3165- Mary Francis ("Frankie") b. 1867,(c1861 Andrews Co, Mo) 

res of St. Joseph, MO m. 1885 James Calvin Tulloch d. Savannah, MO 

Con3161- William A. Yoder (c1852 MO- ) m. 1875 Emma Rose 

( - ) Divorced. lived in OK, 1880 Gentry Co,MO 

(1900- Benton, Andrews Co, Mo) (George Yoder papers) 

Con31611- Della b. m. Delbert Covill res. Calif.- two sons Ernest 

and 

Dureand in California) 

Con31612- Lillian b.1878 m. Al Moore res. IA- a son Lee in Iowa 

Con31613- Estey (Esta) b. m. -one child Lillian 

Con31614- Pearl (son) b. (6/-/1882 Mo- ) m. 

res. OK-several children 

Con31614-Pearl Elliott YODER (6/9/1881 Andrews, Mo-8/11/1966 Kingfisher, Ok) 

m1. 11/2/1907 Kingfisher, Ok Elizabeth UHLENHAKE (4/25/1887 Auburn, Sac, Iowa- 

) (Ref. Barnum, Keith) (moved from St. Joseph .Mo to Kingfisher,Ok- 

LINDAYODER@webtv.net (LINDA YODER)) 

Con316141. Louise Elizabeth YODER b: 20 JAN 1908 in Kingfisher, Kingfisher, 

Oklahoma 

Con316142. Emma Anna YODER b: 15 AUG 1909 in Kingfisher, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 

Con316143. Clarence Charles YODER b: 18 JAN 1911 in Estherville, Emmet, Iowa 

Con316144. Mildred Florence YODER b: 20 NOV 1914 in Estherville, Emmet, Iowa 

Con316145. Opal YODER b: 30 JUL 1915 in Estherville, Emmet, Iowa 

Con316146. Arlean Agnes YODER b: 2 MAY 1917 in Estherville, Emmet, Iowa 

Con316147. Frank Edward YODER b: 3 FEB 1919 in Kingfisher, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 

Con316148. Genevieve Cecilia YODER b: 30 MAR 1921 in Kingfisher, Kingfisher, 

Oklahoma 

Con316149. Lee E. YODER b: 17 JAN 1924 in Kingfisher, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 

Con31614a. Raymond Arthur YODER b: 5 JUN 1925 in Kingfisher, Kingfisher,

Oklahoma 

Con31614b. L. D. YODER b: 2 AUG 1929 in Kingfisher, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 

Con31614c. Delbert Melvin YODER b: 20 SEP 1932 in Kingfisher, Kingfisher, 

Oklahoma 

Con3163- George Washington (1860- ) m1. 1889 Julia Munker 

( - ) --2 children died young Julia is buried at Pine Haven 

Cemetery, Halfway, Baker Co., OR, as Julia B. Munkers, wife of Geo Yoder. 

MUNKERS, Julia B. YODER 01 Mar 1872 26 Dec 1893 wife of George YODER) 

m2. Hettie Burns ( - ) (Geo.Yoder papers) 

w1 



w2 

Con31632- Ruby ( - ) m. Carl Tilden - 3 girls 1 boy 

Con319 George Yoder (3/2/1836 Morgan Co, In- 4/21/1931 age 95y 1m 

Andrews Co, Mo) bur. Lower Neeley Cemetery. Civil War. 1st Sgt Co.D, 

23 Mo Inf., Enl.1861-wounded m. 1/12/1865 Andrews Co., Rosedale to 

Amanda D. Ogle (6/23/1844 Oh-12/28/1928 Andrews Co, Mo) bur. 

Lower Neely, separated from wife in 1890. Was a constable for Rosedale, Mo. 

Con319..- 4 children died in infancy 

Con319..- George F. b. Nov. 1867 d. 12/6/1869 age 2 yr 12 d 

b. Lower Neely Cem. 

Con3191- Alice b. 1868 res. Wichita,KS d. in her 90s 

m1. Thomas Kent m2. late in life to John Crosby 

of Savannah, MO (1 dau., 1 son killed when young) 

Con3192- Linnie (Lena Mae) b. Jun. 2, 1869 m. 1903 

to Frank Eldredge (Eldridge) res. Kansas City, MO 

Con3193- Benjamin b. Apr.19,1872 Rosendale 

m. May 1905 Enid, Okla. to Teresa ____ (d. Jun. 1974 

age 90) d. Nov. 1963 Enid,Okla 

carpenter, horse racing 

Con3194- Joseph b. 2/4/1874 res. Rosendale ,never married 

d. 5/17/1960 "in his 90s" bur. Lower Neeley Cem. 

Con3195- Charles F. b. 1879 res. Council Grove, KS 

d. in an automobile accident 

Con31a Philip Henry Yoder (6/21/1840 Martinsville, Morgan Co.,IN- 

4/29/1930 Rosendale,MO) Civil War - Co G 5th Mo State 

Militia CAV 3 1/2 yrs, farmer. bur. Lower Neeley Cemetery 

m. Jan. 1, 1865 Andrew Co.,MO Catherine Burns 

(Jul.15,1848 Amazonia,MO- Dec.15,1915 Rosendale) 

Con31a1- Laura Bell b. Jan.26,1866 m. Oct.16, 1889 George 

Swartz d. Sep.14,1919 bur. Lower Neeley Cem. 

Con31a2- Clara Ellen b. Feb.5, 1868 m. William Housman 

d. Sep.8,1910 Bolckow, MO 

Con31a..- Benny F. "Frankie" b. 5/ /1870 d. 11/14/1870 age 5m 15d

Con31a3- Eva b. May 18,1874 m. 1900 John Fuller (Nov.11, 

1866- ) d. 1930 Rosendale,MO bur. Bolckow,MO 

+Con31a4- Albert Conrad b. Jan.1,1877 

+Con31a5- Oren Thomas (Ora)(Tommy) b.(Feb.) 1884 

+Con31a6- Frederick H. b. May 25, 1883 Rosendale, Andrews Co., MO. 

Con31a7- Leo ( - as an infant) 

Con31a4- Albert Conrad Yoder m. May 20,1904 

Bolckow,MO to Clara Hoover. A carpenter, lumberman, 

postmaster, County Treasurer. d. Apr. 14, 1957 

St. Joseph,MO. bur, Memorial Park Cem. St Joe. 

Con31a41- Opal Edra b. Jul.26,1905 m. Dec.25,1955 

to Walter West (Mar.23,1895-Jan.10,1979) at Rosedale,MO 

teacher for 46 years. 

Con31a42- Hazel Nadine b. Oct.18,1907 never married 

Federal worker- income Tax 

Con31a43- Leota Corrine b. Mar.19,1916 m. Sep.18,1938 

Arnold Alkire (Sep.23,1912-Sep.1,1981) at Rosedale. 

Con31a5- Ora (Tommy) Yoder m. May 20,1904 Jesse Schurlock 

barber and meat inspector. d. in his 50s of leukemia 

bur. Forest Lawn Memorial Cem.,CA 

Con31a51- Amis 

Con31a52- Maxine 

Con31a53- Ethel Mae 

Con31a54- Shirley 

Con31a6- Frederick Yoder lived to age 106 m. Ollie Hooper 

(11/21/1895 Forest City, MO- Nov.12,1984 Sulphur, LA 

d. Dec.15,1988 Sulphur, LA. Barber. 

Con31a61- Anson b.7/21/1918 Forest City, Mo 

m. 8/18/1945 Lake Charles to Dorothy Kellgren (7/19/1925 

Hackensack, NJ- ) three daughters all b. Sulphur,LA 

Con31a62- Merlyn b. m. Berdena Tiller 

five daughters , they live in CA. 

Con32 Adolphus Yoder d. Apr.3, 1876 in or near Patosi,MO 

5 ft 4 in black hair 

m1. to ? (?Julia_____b. c1790 GA-1850 Wash Census) 

m2. Feb.16,1849 Wash. Co,MO to Nancy Jane Goard divorced 1852 

m3. Nov.16 (15), 1855 Palmer,Wash Co.,MO Sarah Gillam/Gilliam 

(Arkansas Land records: ADOLPH YODER Independence County Warrant 

1820/11/27- 23 14N 4W 160acres- "I also found a mention of Adolph's 

purchase of land in November 1820. Strangely enough, he is not listed in 

census records for 1820, '30 or '40, nor in tax lists for the state of Arkansas 

1819-1829"-per Nancy Griffith, Lyon College Library, Batesville, AR.) 

(1840 -Adolph- Wash. Co- 1m 40-50, 1 f 30-40, 1m 2f 5-10, 1m

the 1830 census for Washington County MO. I am sure it is the same 

as Adolphus because he was in Washington County MO in 1840 and 1860, 

and Julia was there in 1850. The listing for Dolphin Yoder lists a male and 

a female of the right age, which is consistent with what we know, since 

their oldest child was not born until 1830 or later... There is also a Yoder 

listed in Washington County MO Marriages 1815-1844, Reel C6834 

Recorder of Deeds, Title Maqrriages, Vol. A, 1815-1844-Y. I think this 

must be Adolphus and Julia. His second marriage didn't take place 

until 1849. However, I have not yet had the opportunity to order the 

microfilm, and the index only lists surnames." Tilitha Waicekauskas 

bigwrnch@fidnet.com- Nov. 2000)(suddenly information about Adolphus 

Yoder is just falling all around me! I put a query on the Washington Co. 

MO message board, which was promptly answered by William Baker, who 

put me in touch with Preston Gilliam, a descendant of Adolphus Yoder's 

third wife by her first husband. He had a lot of information and pictures 

of the cabin Adolphus Yoder built in Yoder Holler. He said it is still being 

lived in by one of Sarah Gilliam Yoder's descendants, and still does not 

have plumbing or electricity. Adolphus must have done a good job, because 

the cabin still looks very sturdy. Preston says that Sarah and her husband 

lived on an adjoining farm to Adolphus, and that a couple of years after her 

husband died, Sarah had a baby, and the parentage has never been disclosed, 

although they feel sure it was Adolphus Yoder's baby. He married her a 

year or two after that and they combined their farms and built the cabin. 

Adolphus was a miner as well as a farmer. That makes sense because they 

lived in the lead belt. I believe there is, or was, iron in that area also. 

Tilitha Waicekauskas-- bigwrnch@fidnet.com- Nov. 2000)(Sarah is shown in 

1883 drawing a War of 1812 widow's pension of $8 starting Feb. 1879, at 

that thime she was a resident of Palmer) 

(?1850 census Wash.CO- George-age 8 MO, Damascus-age 12 TN) 

Con321- Jackson b. d.

for Susan Caroline and came up with Susan Qurallin, and she would have been 

the right age, but can't verify that either." Tilitha Waicekauskas, 

bigwrnch@fidnet.com) 

Con3251- Sarah Ellen Yoder, born 1869 MO, died 1946 AR, married 

first Andrew Benton, and then ________Heath. One daughter, Susie 

Benton, married Joe Lex, died AR. 

+Con3252- John b. ca1870 MO 

Con3253- Annie b. ca1872 MO Died in CA, married 

_____Baker, no further information. 

Con3254- Emma b. ca1874 MO 

(per-ggrandaughter Pat Becker, 9/97-" Her name was Emily Kitory 

Evelyne Yoder, she married Alexander Pounds on September 15, 1899 

in Steelville, Crawford Co. MO. She was born April 6, 1879 and died on 

February 10, 1925 MO or AR (near border). I think maybe in the Corning, 

Arkansas area. She was buried in Nelson Cemetery in Datto, Arkansas 

so I am told. There is no marker on her grave, and no one seems to be 

able to find it. Emily's father's name was Layfette Yoder and her mother 

was Caroline, don't know when she was born but her and Layfette were 

married in 1870 and they both died in 1882, they had 6 children. Names of 

the children were John Yoder, Sarah Ellen Yoder (who married someone by the 

name of Andrew Benton) Annie Yoder, Bell Yoder, Andrew Yoder and Emily 

Kitory Evelyne Yoder. Andrew is said to have died at an early age. Annie and 

Bell married a Smith and a Baker. But not sure which one married which. 

Emily and Alexander were married in the Steeleville, Missouri area and they 

had 9 children. - Pat Becker, my e-mail is beckep@som-uky.campus.mci.net") 

Con3255- Isabel b. ca1877 MO living in Pueblo CO in 1914, married 

first 

_____Smith, second ________Hilburn, no further information 

Con3256- Andrew b. ca1878 MO died before 1900 census. Family 

tradition says he died young, and could have died in 1882 at same time as 

Lafayette and Susan.. 

Con3252- John George Yoder (1870 Mo-Nov.3,1944 California 

m1.Estelle Barr c.1894 d. c1900 Ark? m2. May 1,1904 

in Ark. Eula Visti Morris b. 3/2/1883 Jackson,TN 

d. 12/23/1964 Armona, CA 

Con32521- Virginia Irene b. 1896 m. Tom Reynolds - 9 children 

d. 1986 

Con32522- Arthur Harry b. 1898 m. Ruth McInturff- 5 children 

d. 1989 

Con32523- *Joseph Guy b. 1906 m.Noma Helen Dollins 

-4 children d. 1978 

Con32524- Waymond Earl b. 1913 m. Lavetta Harrison 

no children d. 1985 

Con32525- Dorothy Wilma b.1910 m. Alvis Dutch Bridges 

-8 children 

Con32526- Claude Bascom b.1913 m. Ruth ____ no children 

d. 1964

Con32527- Reba Elizabeth b. 1915 m. Gail W. Hamilton 

-3 children 

Con32528- Dolores Odell b. 1917 m. James Marple -1 child 

d. 1987 

Con32529- Evamae Benevieve b. 1920 m. Ray Smith -5 children 

Con3252a- Robert Washington b. 1922 m. Della Maddox, no children 

(* daughter Barbara Myatt,4000 Glenrose Dr., Columbia, TN 38401) 

Con34 David Yoder d. 1897 bur. Old Thessalonica Bapt. Cem. 

m. 1/16/1827 Lincoln Co., NC Ruth Wilson (ca1804- ? ) 

Con341- Elisha b. Nov.9, 1827 died young 

Con342- Franklin b. Jan.18,1830 died young 

Con343- Ruth Elizabeth b. Jul.29, 1832 single 

died mid-1920s , bur. Old Thessalonica Cem. 

(lived 1900-Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp with sister "July Ann") 

Con344- Labba (Letitia) b. Jul.14,1835 m. Laban Hoover 

Con345- Juliann (Julia Ann) b. Nov.3, 1838 never married 

died mid-1920s bur. Old Thessalonica Cem. 

Con37 Solomon Yoder d. Oct.12,1854 m. Sep.25,1832 Lincoln Co., NC 

Sarah Seagle (Seigle) (Sep.11,1809- Dec.4,1874) 

Con371- Alfred M. b. May 9, 1833 d. Oct. 1862 

Battle of Corinth, MS or Springfield, MO 

"missing since fight of Oct.4,1862" 

Sgt. Co.G 9th Texas CAV 

Con372- Mary Ann b. Oct.5,1834 single d. Sep.26,1931 

bur. Daniel's Church Cem., NC 

(1880 Lincoln Co, Howards Creek Twp) 

+Con373- Daniel A. b. Oct.5,1834 NC 

Con374- Emeline M. b. Sep.29,1836 NC single d. Jul.26,1927 

bur. Daniel's Church Cem., NC 

(1880 Lincoln Co, Howards Creek Twp-with sister Mary) 

(1900 Catawba, Bandy Twp- listed as sil with Daniel Wyonnt) 

Con375- Eliza C. b. Jun.30,1838 m1.3/7/1861 Lincoln Co., NC 

Daniel H. Heavner (2/25/1835-8/21/1862) m2. 

Robert Michael Petrie (6/15/1838-12/15/1915) d. Feb.24,1907 

bur. Daniels Church Cem. 

Con376- Sara Elizabeth (Sarah) b. May 8,1840 m1.1/28/1880 

Martin Shedel (5/3/1815-9/17/1892) m2. 8/23/1893 

Daniel Wynant (6/2/1818-12/17/1904) d.10/21/1921 

bur. Daniel's Church Cem. 

Con377- John Franklin b. Aug.9,1842 m. Sarah Heffner (Heavner) 

no issue d. 12/13/1927 Decatur, IL Bur. Fairlwan Cem. Raised Rhoda 

(?1900 MO census,Madison Co. John F. & Sarah E.b.4/42NC) 

+Con378- David b. Jul. 28,1844 

Con379- Adolphus b. Nov.27,1846 lived Kansas City,MO m 2/6/1873 

Logan Co, Il Mary Ann Kincade (12/29/1848Ky-2/28/1936 Ka) d. 4/25/1927

ur. Arkansas City. Ka, Riverside Cem 

+Con37a- Laban b. Jan.18,1849 

+Con37b- William b. Apr.21, 1851 

+Con37c- Robert Anderson b. Aug.16,1853 

Con373- Daniel A. Yoder d. Jan.6,1927 

m1. Ellen Fulbright (1836-1874) 

m2. 2/-/1876 Mary Jane McCaslin (Mar.1839-1927) 

both bur.Daniels Church Cem.,farmer Lutheran 

(1880 Lincoln Co, Howard's Creek Twp, Jane shown as age 41 NC) 

(1900 Lincoln Co, Howard's Creek Twp- Jane showed b 3/1839) 

Con3731- Laura Minta b. Nov.9,1866 NC m. William M. Seagle 

(12/29/1861-6/4/1948) d. Apr.4, 1964 

Con3732- Alfred M. b. Apr.25,1869 NC m. Lucie LeSueur 

d. Mar.30,1949 (1900 with parents,single) 

+Con3733- Charles M. b. Sep.17,1871 NC m1.3/3/1894 Carrie M. Jarrett 

m2.1/16/1904 Kate Seagle Lucky ( -1907) 

m3. 1909 Mamie Rhodes ( -1952) 

d. Sep.19,1940 bur. Grace Lutheran Church 

(in 1880 double listed--once here and once at age 8, listed as a nephew of 

Mary A. Yoder Lincoln Co, Howard's Creek twp.) 

Con3734- Robert Emmett b. Jul.18,1878 NC m. Hilda Overcash 

( -1898) d. May 14,1946 

(Update from Dr. Robert L. Yoder, 10/2001 

Con3735- Mary Kate b. Sep.30,1882 NC m. Lester H. Carpenter 

(1878-1941) d. Aug.20,1953 

Con3733- Charles Maxwell Yoder (9/17/1871 NC-9/19/1940) m1.3/3/1894 Carrie 

M. Jarrett (5/-/1872 NC- ) m2.1/16/1904 Kate Seagle Lucky ( - 

1907) ni m3. 

1909 Mamie Rhodes ( -1952) ni bur. Grace Lutheran Church (Yoders of NCpage 

133, Frank H. Yoder Cht '86)(1900 Catawba, Jacob's Fork Twp) 

Con37331- Lois B. (1/16/1895 NC- ) m. B.W.H. Costner ( 

- ) 

Con37332- Morris Samuel (4/23/1896 Catawba Co,NC-10/9/1981 Lincoln 

Co,NC) m. 11/19/1916 Lincoln Co.,NC Laura Ruth Scronce (12/2/1894- 

10/14/1969) (Frank H. Yoder Cht) 

Con37333- Edith Pearl (3/10/1898 NC- ) m. John A. LeSueur 

( - ) 

Con37334- Daisy Blanche (10/27/1899 NC- ) m. Coy F. Lantz 

( - ) 

Con37335- Carrie Mae (9/10/1902- ) m Thomas C. Price ( - 

) 

Con378- David Yoder (7/28/1844 NC-4/2/1911) 

m1. Feb.18,1869 Mary Caroline Hoke (8/17/1845-Dec.30,1884) 

m2. c1886 Catherine Saine (Apr.1,1837(40) NC-Feb.27,1906) 

bur. Daniel's Church Cem. (Reuel Newton-'87, Mrs. Robert

L. Yoder-'85, Hubert A. Yoder)(1900 Lincoln Co, Lincolntown) 

Con3781- Sarah Susanah b. Mar.18,1870 d. Aug.9, 1887 

Con3782- Daniel Alfred (Dec.8,1871 Lincoln Co, NC-6/18/1950 

Tucson,AZ) bur. Evergreen Cem., Tucson, Az 

m. 12/15/1898 Leonards Fork Bap.Church 

Emma Elizabeth Hoover (6/28/1878-5/22/1958) 

(1900 Lincoln Co, Lincolntown- with dau. Mary L. b. 11/-/1899 NC) 

Con3783- Robert Lee b. Oct.29,1875 NC m.May19,1901 Mary Jane 

Heavner (11/22/1876-11/17/1944) d. Jul.7,1949 

Cherryville, NC bur. Bethpage Luth. Cem. 

Con3784- William Michael (6/2/1878 NC-8/27/1938 Lincolntown,NC) 

m. Sarah E Ross (5/31/1881-6/18/1969) 

Con3785- Martin Luther b. Oct.14, 1881 NC m. Katie Pearl Coon 

(11/27/1884-2/19/1960) d. Feb.25, 1961 

Con3786- Lizzie Pearl b. Sep.28,1883 NC m. Rutledge A.Coon 

d. Feb.11, 1939 bur. Daniel's Church Cem. 

Con37a- Laban Yoder (1/18/1849 near Hickory,NC-2/12/1930) 

m. 3/14/1872 Logan Co, Il Martha J. McBride (9/16/1856 Il-6/24/1926) 

moved from Elkhart IN to Chestnut,IL in 1882 ("to Logan Co.,Il after the 

Civil War) both bur. Fairlawn Cem., Decatur, IL. (1880-Logan Co,Il- 

Corwin; 1920-Decatur, Macon Co, IL) 

Con37a1- Minnie J. (4/18/1873- ) m. 6/6/1895 Logan Co, Il 

William T. Waldren 

Con37a2- Wallace Austin (9/14/1874 near Elkhart,I-12/9/1941) m. 6/5/1895 

De Witt Co, Il Hettie Samuels (c1876 Il- 

) (1920-Montgomery Co, IL) 

Con37a3- Ralph E. (7/7/1877 near Elkhart,I-12/4/1908 bur. Grove City,IL) 

m. 10/23/1902 Lula Phares 

Con37a4- Howard M. (12/11/1878 Il-7/28/1952- of Parkinson's disease 

bur. Grove City, IL) m 11/14/1900 Christian Co, Il Flora Alexander 

(c1878 In- ) (1920-Christian Co, Il) 

Con37a5- Lola Alice (7/3/1881 near Elkhart,I- ) m. 5/4/1908 

William Clarence Westervelt 

Con37a6- Claude Maurice (10/8/1883 -7/_/1967 res Il (SSN)) m 

Ethel Alexander 

Con37a7- Lois Irene (10/10/1886 IL- ) single 

Con37a8- Grover Walter (4/_/1889 near Chestnut,Il-6/20/1929) m. 

Lura Miller (c1889 Il - ) (1920- Sangamon Co, Il) 

Con37a9- Harold Herron (3/11/1892 near Chetsnut,Il-(?6/_/1972 res Al 

(SSN)) m. Claudia Marie McCannel ( - ) 

Con37b William Yoder (4/21/1851 NC-3/21/1900) m. Sarah Ann Mosteller 

(7/7/1845 NC-6/28/1918) bur. Daniel's Ch.Cem. (1880, 1900-Lincoln Co,NC) 

Con37b1- Oscar E. b. Aug. 1876 NC m. Mary Carter (7/-/1872 NC- ) 

(1900 Lincoln Co, Howard's Creek Twp) 

Con37b2- Hattie May (3/_/1878 NC- ) m. Charles C. Coon (2/_/1871 NC- ) 

Con37b3- Luther A. (1/8/1883 NC-7/27/1964) m. Nov.12,1905 Etta Clare 

Warlick ( -5/6/1965) bur. Daniel's Church Cem.

Con37c Rev. Robert Anderson Yoder (8/17/1853 NC-5/16/1911) m. 5/9/1878 

Rosa Elizabeth Fisher (3/22/1855 NC -4/11/1924) bur. Daniel's Church Cem. 

(1900- Catawba, Hickory City) 

Con37c1- Mary Pearl b. May 12, 1879 d. May 30,1879 

Bur. Daniel's Church cem 

Con37c2- Lela Fisher b. Aug.20,1880 NC m. 1901 Rev. John Hall 

(1878-1968) d. Oct.6,1946 both bur. Arlington National cem. 

Con37c3- Maude E. b. Jul.19,1882 NC m. Jul.2, 1901 John Robinson II 

( -10/1/1958) d. Jun.11,1965 bur. Old Weidner (Whitener) Cem. 

Con37c4- Blanche I. b. Sep.4,1885 NC m. Rev. Brady Stroup 

(1876-1954) d. Jul.25,1969 

Con37c5- Margreta b. Feb.26,1889 NC m. Jun.10,1908 Dr. Robert 

Rhyne ( -1/161950) d. Jul.22,1950 

Con37c6- Robert Able b. May20,1893 NC m1. Pearl Jones 

m2. Ateliene Perry d. Dec.23,1956 

Con37c7- Paul Allison, MD b. Mar.9, 1896 NC m. Jun.12,1926 

Evelyn Dale d. Feb.12, 1951 no issue 

Con39 Eli Yoder d. Jul. 1, 1891 Englewood, TN bur. Prospect Cem. 

m1. Jul.17,1834 Lincoln Co., NC Sarah Elizabeth (Betsy) Detter 

(Sep.23,1812-Apr.14,1887 Englewood,TN bur. Prospect Cem. 

m2. Elizabeth Vaughn Sep.20,1888 McMinn Co.,TN 

res 1850 Washington Co,TN; 1860 Jefferson Co.TN 

+Con391- William Pinkney b. Jun.6,1835 Lincoln, Catawba Co.NC 

+Con392- Calvin E.(A.) b. Jun.26,1836 NC 

+Con393- Henry M. (Marcus) b. ca 1838 NC 

Con394- Mathew V. b. ca 1841 

Con395- Cham (Jane F.) b. ca1843 

+Con396- Susan Ann (H.S.-pos, Harriet Susannah) b. cAug.1844 

m. Mar.25, 1881 Levi Louis Adams d. 1932 Prospect 

Englewood,TN - had child named Yoder -7children (?) 

(per certificate of death-Ann Adams b. 7/15/1846 died 

9/5/1932 age 86y 2m 20d widow of Levi Adams 

bur. Prospect Cemetery, 9/6/1932-no doctor in 

attendance, of natural causes-housewife, filed in 

McMinn County, informant Sam Yoder, Englewood) 

+Con397- Franklin Andrew b. c1847 Aug. 1844 NC (per 1900 

census) (1880 census b.TN) 

+Con398- Mary b. c1848 NC children all named Yoder 

Con399- Sarah Eliza b. Dec.29,1853 m. Aug.16, 1868 

William Knight Adams d. May 16,1932 

Con391 William Pinkney Yoder d. killed by a bushwacker in 

Caldwell Co.,during the Civ. War. Co.G (?C) 39th TN Mtd Inf 

a private m. Jan.22,1857 Jefferson Co.,TN to Mary Ann (Polly) 

Gaby ( ca1827 - Sep.28,1896 age 69)of Washington Co.,TN 

+Con3911- Rufus M. b. ca1854 res. IL

m- three times? 

m1. 3/08/1881 MASSAC Co, Il BONIFIELD, MARTHA J 

m2. 1/27/1886 Massac Co, Il HENLY, REBECCA ANN HALL 

(If this is the same Rufus, looks like he was married twice. Also it provides 

the last name of Rebecca as Henly (which is probably Henley like his 

step-daughter shown in the ensus. Another important clue is that it looks to 

me like Rebecca Ann Hall Henly, could have been married before by virtue of 

the name "Hall" appearing.--Bob Portsche,Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 2000) 

(1910 census shows wife Rebecca A. b. c1848 In) 

Con3912- Lizzie b. ca1859 res. Union Co.,TN 

m. Mr. Beagle had 8 children 

(Delayed Birth Records 1881-1899. Pulaski County. Illinois 

Henry Beegle, born 23 Aug 1884, in Mounds, mother's 4th child, white, son of 

Lizzie nee Yoder, age 29, born in Knoxville, Tenn., and Isaac Beegle, farmer, 

age 27, born in Knoxville, Tenn. Testimony of Margie Beegle McEligott, older 

sister, of Cairo, in 1944 (Delayed Births Book 10 P 33).) 

+Con3913- Bradford b. res. Madisonville,TN 

m. Sallie McGhee 

+Con3914- Alexander b. 12/-/61 Tn moved to MO, res. Springfield 

m1. 6/7/1888 Franklin Co,Mo Rose B. Dumler m2. ? 

Con3911- Rufus M. Yoder 

>From "Massac County, Illinois Marriages, Vol. II, 1878 - 1890," compiled 

by Carolyn Cromeencs Foss and Judy Foreman Lee, 1992, the following record" 

>Rufust M. Yoder, age 24, farmer, married Martha J. Bonifield, age 22, 

March 8, 1881, in Massac County. Parents of groom: Pink Yoder and 

Mary Ann Gaby Parents of bride: William Bonifield and Sarah V. Bailey 

>From "Massac County, Illinois, Marriages from miscellaneous sources, 

1858-1903," by Massac County Genealogical Society, 1998, the following 

record shown: 

Rufus M. Yoder, age 26, married Lacy Hall, September 4, 1882, in Massac 

County. Benj. J. Delavan, JP. 

and, 

Rufus M. Yoder, age 31, farmer, married Rebecca Ann Hall Henley, age 39, 

January 27, 1886, in Massac County. Parents of groom: Pink Yoder and 

Mary A. Gaby. Parents of bride: Harvey Hall and Margaret Cunnel. 

(Rebecca A. Hall was previously married to Benjamin F. Henley. By that 

marriage, there was at least one child, a daughter named Trisa C. 

Henley. According to "Massac County Marriages, Vol. 3, 1890 - 1895," a 

W. A. Winningham, age 24, farmer, married Trisa C. Henley, age 19, on 

February 18, 1890, at Rufus Yoder's home. Trisa's father was Benjamin 

F. Henley and mother was Rebecca Ann Hall. Obviously, the two 

Winningham children listed in the 1900 Massac County census as Rufus's 

grandson and granddaughter were the children of W. A. Winningham and 

Trisa C. Henley, Rebecca's daughter.) 

I also found another reference to Rufus. His name appears in a booklet 

entitled, "1857-1987 Index - Members and Visitors, Massac County Masonic 

232 - History Brookport-on-Ohio, Illinois 62910," by Willard A. Kerr.

It only indicates dates that he must have been a member, petition for 

membership May 1, 1909; and apparently a MM (Master Mason) on March 19, 

1910. 

>Don't know if this is of any value to you, but it seems to confirm that 

Rufus was in fact married three times as indicated in your newsletter. 

>Bob Portsche, Arlington, Virginia, 

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Con3913- Samuel Bradford Yoder (-/-/1859 TN- ) m. Sallie L. 

McGhee 

(11/_/1865 NC- ) res. Madisonville,TN (1900-Macon Co,NC) 

Con39131- Dewey J (8/_/1886 TN- ) 

Con3914- Alexander Yoder (12/-/61 Tn- ) moved to MO, res. 

Springfield m1. 6/7/1888 Franklin Co,Mo Rose B. Dumler m2. ? 

(1900- Greene Co., Mo- Campbell Twp) 

Con39141- Mary (10/-/1890 Mo- ) 

Con39142- Georgiana (5/-/1894 Mo- ) 

Con392 Calvin E. (A.) Yoder b. 6/26/1836 Hickory, Catawba Co., NC 

m. 10/13/1867 Hickory, Ctwb., NC. Sara Fulbright (5/22/1838 NC-8/4/1919 

(or 8/4/1918-per C.M.) d. 1/19/1909 St.Albans, Kanawha Co., WV 

both bur. Mosteller/Yoder Cem. Tornado, Kanawha Co.,WV 

("take Coal River Rd from St Albans to Fallis Creek Rd, go 1 mile 

turn right on gravel Rd) Civil War- Co D, 36th VA Inf 

(Connie Mosteller-9/98, R. Leon Yoder-2/99, 1900 Kanawha Co, 

WV Census; 1880 NC Census Catawba, Bandy's twp) 

(Sara Fulbright m1. 8/1/1858 to John Reinhardt (2/5/1835 and reportedly 

died in the Civil War at Sharpsburg, Md. She was the daughter of John 

Fulfright and Sadie Sane and had three brother die in the War. Her 

father drove a two-horse wagon to the battlefield near Richmond, Va 

and brought their bodied back to Vale, NC where they were buried in 

the cemetery at the Trinity Lutheran Church-Sara had a son and two 

daughters by her first marriage. She left these children behind with 

a sister when she and Calvin moved to West Virginia- from R. Leon Yoder). 

+Con3921 Martin Alonzo (4/12/1867 Hickory, Ctwb., NC-5/15/1953 

Tornado, Kan., WV) Buried Most./Yod. Cmty Tornado, 

Kan.,WV m. Jane Elizabeth Mosteller (1872-1942) 

Con3922 Fidelia (Delle/Delia) (8/13/1870 NC-6/19/1924) 

Tornado, Kan., WV bur. Most/Yod Cmty 

(per 1880 census- "Allice F." age 11 yrs) 

m. Michael E. Mosteller m.8/7/1887 Lin. Co., NC 

Con3923 Mary E. (5/18/1872 NC-1920) bur. Wood/Oxley Cmty., 

Browns Ck., S.A.,Kan.,Wv m. Julius Robert Smith 

Con3924 Ida E. (4/12/1874 NC-3/10/1942) bur. Mt.Tabor Church 

of God Cmty. S.A.,Kan.,WV m. William I. Hall 

Con3925 Thomas Alexander (4/19/1877 NC-1962 Tornado, 

Kan. Co., WV) m. Delia Butcher (2/-/1882 WV-1939)

(gfather of Eloise Nicholls, Box 527, Whitesville,WV 25209) 

- - - - - 1880 NC census shows "infant" age 2/12 b. NC 

Con3926 Minty Mae (4/16/1897- 9/?/1947 Kan. Co., WV) 

bur. Cunningham Cmty., S.A., Kan. Co.,WV 

m. Alexander Hugh Lambert 

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NOTE: two other Yoders at this Cemetery- Elizabeth Yoder 

(4/8/1831- 7/16/1919) and Martha Yoder (3/3/1841)- unknown 

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Will of calvin Yoder- submitted by R. Leon Yoder, Pt. Pleasant, WVa 

July 2001: 

" I, Calvin Yoder, a resident of the County of Kanawha and State of 

West Virginia, and by occupation a farmer do make publish and 

declare this instrument as my last Will and testament, hereby revoking 

all other Wills and testaments and being of sound mind and memory 

and understanding and desiring to arrange all my worldly and 

business affairs. do say this 

1st. That owing to very unfortunate family matters that arose some 

twelve years ago in which under gross deception which was practiced 

on me by my wife Sarah Yoder I was persuaded to sign a certain 

deed by so doing I was greatly defamed and through that I have 

nothing to dispose of by this will except for my interest in the estate 

of my father Eli Yoder a resident of the State of Tennessee. 

2cnd. All of such estate as above stated I hereby leave to my daughter 

Ida E. Hall, the wife of W.I. Hall, except the sum of one dollar to each 

and every one of my children. I do this as a slight reimbursement t 

my daughter Ida for her kindness to me during my afflictions. 

My wife Sarah having left and deserted me after deceiving me as 

above stated and not living with me for the term of 12 years as man 

and wife therefore under the laws of this State she is no legal wife of 

mine and under no circumstances whatever is she to have rights, 

benefits or share in the said estate of my deceased Father which is 

due and coming to me at the death of my step mother who has the 

said estate only during her life. I hereby appoint Billy Lee Miles 

as my admnistrator under this Will. 

In witness thereof I Calvin Yoder have hereunto Subscribed my 

name on this the 21 day of November, 1908. 

his 

Calvin X Yoder 

mark 

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+Con3921 Martin Alonzo (4/12/1867 Hickory, Ctwb., NC-5/15/1953 

Tornado, Kan., WV) Buried Most./Yod. Cmty Tornado, Kan. Co, 

WV m. Jane Elizabeth Mosteller (1872-1942) (1900 WV Census, 

Kanawha Co) 

Con39211- Fannie (9/-/1891 WV- ) 

Con39212- Bethe (3/-/1898 WV- )

Con39213- Garnett (4/-/1900 WV- ) 

Con3925 Thomas Alexander Yoder (4/19/1877-1962 Tornado, 

Kan. Co., WV) m1. Delia Butcher (1881-1939) m2. Dora 

Thomas (R. Leon Yoder-2/99) 

Con39251- French Robert (1900-1968) m. Leamon Linville ( 6/24/1903- 

1985) both bur. Cunningham Memorial Park in St Albams, WVA. 

Con39252- Roncie Leonard (6/19/1901-5/15/1972) m. Golda Abbott 

(12/20/1904-8/31/1987). Both bur. Cunningham Memorial Park in 

St Albams, WVA. Worked in coal mines. 

Con39253- Grace (1/8/1905- ) m. Rupert McNeely ( - ) 

res. Baltimore, MD. 

Con393 Henry Marcus Yoder b. c1839 NC d. (?Martin -2nd Co D,36 VA Inf) 

res.1850-Wash Co,TN; 1880-Jeff.Co,TN;1910 Putnam Co,WVA, 

LDS Descendancy Chart- shows 1st wife as Sarah "Gann" b 1848 TN ) 

m1. Sarah Snead (ca1842TN- ) 

m2.by 1910 wife Luvena b. 1841 WV (?1900 WV Cens-Putnam Co- 

"Mollie Yoder (9/-/1841 WV- ) m-i-l of Robert Meddings") 

+Con3931- Robert b. May 1861TN m. Alice Ida Lewis (Sneed or Snead) 

(5/18/1868 Newport, Cocke Co,TN- ) 

res. 1900 Knox Co.,TN- carpenter- children in LDS Descendancy Cht. 

Con3932- James Franklin b. ca1867 m. Mary Josephine "Molly" 

Plemons res. 1900 Knox Co.,TN Methodist Minister 

(billchandler@ftc-i.net, My new son-in-law is the great grandson of William Earl 

Westbrook of Knoxville, TN who married Sue Yoder (don't even know her full 

name), daughter of Rev. James F. Yoder, a Wesleyan Methodist minister in 

Knoxville and his wife Mollie Pemons (sic). Can you help me identify ths 

family? Rev. James F. Yoder is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in 

Knoxville. He died Oct. 1940 aged 73 and was a native of Newport, TN. 

Thank you so much. Bill Chandler, Nov. 2003) 

Con3933- George b. ca1871 TN 

( my George Washington Yoder was born august 15, 1871 in newport tn. 

his father was Henry Marcus Yoder. he married Josephine Sloan on april 19 1903. 

they had one child, Bessie yoder, which is my grandmother. she was born june 5, 

1905. 

Josephine died February 1907 when my grandmother was 2 years old. George 

remarried a lady named Delilaha Graham.--PTurner402@aol.com pam turner.-9/00) 

Con3934- Eliza J. b. ca1875 TN 

Con3935- Colonel Lewis "C.L." b. ca1877 Newport, Cooke,TN 

m. Sadie Durby d. Sep. 1953 

Con3936- Elizabeth b. ca1879 TN 

Con3937- Bertha b. m. _________ Shackleford 

Con3931- Robert Yoder (5/-/1861 TN- ) m. 

Alice Ida Lewis (Sneed or Snead)(5/18/1868 Newport, Cocke Co,TN- ) 

res. 1900 Knox Co.,TN- carpenter- children in LDS Descendancy Cht. 

Con39311- Gypsy (c1890 Newport,Tn- )

Con39312- Emma Bessie (1/12/1892 Morristown, Hamblen,Tn- ) m. 

William Frances Dougherty (6/24/1870- ) 

Con39313- Ella Mae (c1894 Knoxville,Tn- ) m. 

Clayborn Ingle (c1894- ) 

Con39314- William Jennings Bryant (12/20/1896 Knoxville,Tn- ) 

Con39315- Claud (c1898 Knoxville,Tn- ) 

Con3931--- 

Con3931--- 

Con393-- 

Con3931-- Samuel (c1909 Knoxville, Tn- ) 

Con3931- 

Con396- Ann Yoder -out-of-wedlock child with Levi Adams (1820-1907). 

subsequently m. Mar.25, 1881 Levi Louis Adams . 

(Per Ruth Minter, Ann was the second wife of Levi Louis Adams...his first wife 

was 

Matilda Varner. "Different family members said that Levi and Ann Yoder had a son 

before 

they were married, probably while he was still married to Matilda Varner" 

Con3961- Samuel David b. 11/21/1878 d. 1/22/1946 bur. Prospect Meth. Ch. 

Cem, 

McMinn Co, Tenn. m. Jul.11,1897 Englewood, McMinn Co,TN (h1) Lindie Cordie 

Cooley (3/25/1879-3/4/1956) (Ref. M.W. Yoder-6/98) 

Con39611- Albert Dewey (7/10/1899 McMinn Co,Tn-5/_/1975) m1. 8/11/1916 

Lillie E. Adams (3/29/1898-1/17/1932) m2. 4/19/1932 Lou Ella Whitner Fortner ( 

- ) 

Con39612- Edna (5/ /1900- ) m. 8/6/1916 Joney Carden divorced by 

1920 

Con39613-Ruel B. (1/30/1902-5/_/1981) m. 12/21/1922 McMinn Co., TN 

Ella Mae Armstrong 

Con39614- Minnie B. ( - ) m 8/9/1921 McMinn Co., TN 

Fred L Miller 

Con39615- (Mary) Ethel A. (6/10/1907 McMinn Co., Tn-8/29/1911 Etowah, McMinn,TN) 

Con39616- James William B. (3/13/1909 McMinn Co, TN- ) 

Con39617- Pearl (2/13/1912 McMinn Co,TN- ) 

Con39618- Frank (c1917- ) m. 3/6/1938 Stella Mae Barnes 

?Con39619- Ruth ( ) m Ruth __ 

Con397 Franklin Yoder (Yoeter) d. 

res 1880/1900/1910 Cape Gir. Co.,MO ) 

m Dec.27,1868 Mary Eliza Browning (Jul.31,1850 Wash.Co.TN- 

Jul.10, 1927 Cape Girardeau,MO ) CoK 8th MO Inf 

Con3971- Lillie Rosetta b. Apr.15,1870 White Pine, Jefferson 

Co. TN m. James Day d. Apr.30,1946 

Con3972- William Elisha b. Sep. 23, 1871 White Pine,TN 

m. Jane Snyder

Con3973- James Franklin b. Aug.31,1873 White Pine,TN 

m. Bertha Roberts d. c1938 

Con3974- John Marshall b. Jan.20,1875 MO 

d. 1892 

Con3975- Laura Kate b. Mar.1,1877 MO 

m. Edward Baker McBride d. ca1913 

Con3976- Martin Van Buren b. Apr.26,1879 MO d. 8/_/1964 (SSN) 

m. Bertha (b.1883MO- ) -3 children 

Con3977- Anni Margaret b. c1881 MO d. c1881 

Con3978- Zoe Lynn b. Feb.4,1883 

Con3979- Charles Tucker b. c1885 d. c1887 

Con397a- Mary May b. Nov. 1887 MO m Sep.3,1931 

Christopher Hake Mitchell 

Con397b- Elizabeth (Bettie) Bell b. Sep. 1889 d. c1900 

Con397c- Emma Lou (Amy Lou) b. Jan. 1893 MO m. Frank Long 

d. Nov. 1950 

Con397d- Idell (Burte Idella) b. Jul. 1894 MO 

Con397e- Myrtle Irene b. ca1894 d. c1895 

Con398 Mary Yoder d. 

not married to the childrens father -all named Yoder 

Con3981- Julius G. b. Aug. 1874 (listed 1900 census 

Polk Co.TN as Yother m. Mary_____ 

Con3982- Carrie m. Tom Mealor 

Con3983- Florence A. b. 1881 never married 

Con3984- Nellie b. 1890 m. Ciciro Johnson 

Con3985- Charles "Charlie" Franklin b. Apr.11,1892 Ducktown, 

d. 1/_/1964 (SSN) 

Polk Co.,TN m. Apr.26,1918 Ducktown Emily Seacrest 

Con3981 Julius G. Yother (1900 Polk Co,TN Census) 

m. Mary ___ (Jan.1874 TN- ) 

Con39811- Walter b. Mar. 1894 TN 

Con3a Andrew L. Yoder d. May 7, 1900 m. Aug.1,1837 Lincoln Co., NC 

Anna Kistler (Dec.1811- 1905) both bur. Grace Luth.Cem. 

(1880 NC, Catawba Co, Jacobs Fork Twp) (1900 same place Anna 

with Catherine and Barbara and listed gd- Louisa b. 4/-/1878 NC) 

+Con3a1- Sidney b. ca 1837 

Con3a2- Jacob b. 1838 m. twice no issue d. 1874 

Con3a3- Caroline (Mary) b. ca1841 m. Pinkney Jarrett 

Con3a4- Henry b. ca1842 single d. 1896 killed by a falling 

tree bur. Grace Cem. 

Con3a5- Catherine b. Mar. 1844 NC single d. 1940 bur.Grace Cem. 

Con3a6- Barbara b. Aug. 1847 NC single d. 1908 bur. Grace Cem. 

Con3a7- Frances b. 1850 m. Phillip Whitener d. 1942 

bur. Grace Cem. 

Con3a8- Magdalena b. 1853 m. Pinkney Hoover d. 1932

ur. Daniel's Church Cem. 

Con3a1- Sidney Yoder d. m. Eliza Reep bur. Grace Lutheran Church 

(Data from Jan 2002 by Catherine Yoder Pardue, 3417 Wicker St, 

Sanford, NC 27330) Sidney Yoder (4) born June 21, 1838, died 1872, the son of 

Andrew 

Yoder and Ann Kistler. He married Eliza Reep. Their children 

were James Franklin Yoder (5) and Thomas Yoder (5).Sidney Yoder 

(4) served in Company D 1st Regiment North Carolina Troops as 

Teamster durning the War Between the States. Me was held as 

a Prisoner of War at Camp Lookout Maryland and released June 

22, 1865. 

Con3a11- James b. 

Con3a12- Thomas L. b. Aug.26,1870 NC m. Fannie J. Wilson (9/-/1871 NC- 

) d. Jul.3,1939 bur. Grace Church Cem. (1900 censue Catawba, Newton twpwith 

son Guy W. 9/-/1898 NC) 

Con3a11- JAMES FRANKLIN YODER (5) was born October 3, 1867 and died December 24, 

1949. 

He married Martha Alice Catherine Sigmon June 29, 1893. James F. Yoder (5) was a 

farmer, stone cutter and was Postmaster of the Fallston,Cleveland Co. Post 

Office 

from 1914 untill he retired in 1940. Mr. Jim as he was called was known also 

known 

for the pocket knives he made and repaired. Their children all born in Fallston, 

Cleveland Co. 

Con3a12- Thomas L. Yoder(5) was born August 26, 1870, and died July 3, 1939. 

He married Fannie Wilson, who was born September 16,1871, and died July 11, 

1944. 

Both were members of Grace Lutheran Church and are buried in Grace Church 

Cemetery. 

Their children were Guy, Roy, Earl, Annie Lee, Virginia, and Paul. Thomas L. 

Yoder(5) 

was a farmer. 

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