Genealogy Report: Descendants of William Yates, R.S.
Descendants of William Yates, R.S.
21.ELIZABETH4 DOUGLAS (PHAEDEN (PHADA)3YATES, BURRELL2, WILLIAM1)She married ----------- BEASLEY.
Child of ELIZABETH DOUGLAS and ----------- BEASLEY is:
| i. | BURRELL5 BEASLEY. |
22.AMOS4 DOUGLAS (PHAEDEN (PHADA)3YATES, BURRELL2, WILLIAM1)He married SUSAN MEEKS.
Child of AMOS DOUGLAS and SUSAN MEEKS is:
| 33. | i. | NANCY5 DOUGLAS. |
23.NOAH4 YATES (NEEDHAM3, JAMES2, WILLIAM1) was born 1866, and died April 23, 1932.He married EMMA WILLIS.She was born September 29, 1874, and died April 1945.
More About NOAH YATES:
Fact 1: 1906, Voted in Crabgrass, Fla., age 36
Child of NOAH YATES and EMMA WILLIS is:
| i. | CALLIE EUGENIA5 YATES. |
24.WILLIAM HENRY4 YATES (JAMES3, JAMES2, WILLIAM1) was born 1855, and died Abt. 1895 in Chattahoochee, Florida.He married MARY BRONSON.
Notes for WILLIAM HENRY YATES:
William Henry Yates became an alcoholic, but there were no hospitals, so he was sent to Chattahoochee, the Florida State Hospital for the Insane, where he died. He was good with animals and served the Shingle Creek community as a veterinarian.
Children of WILLIAM YATES and MARY BRONSON are:
| i. | HENRY5 YATES, m. ROSIE SEAVER. | ||
| ii. | FLOYD YATES, m. EDNA ARNOLD. | ||
| iii. | RADFORD YATES, m. MAE ---------. | ||
| iv. | WILLIAM R. YATES, m. NELLIE PRESCOTT. | ||
| v. | EDWARD YATES, m. NANCY CREWS. | ||
| vi. | JACK YATES, m. OLA ---------. | ||
| vii. | MARGARET YATES, m. SON SYLVESTER. | ||
| viii. | VINNAH YATES, m. (1) -------- IVEY; m. (2) DAN JOHNSON. | ||
| ix. | REBECCA YATES, m. ANDREW SULLIVAN. | ||
| x. | SALLY YATES, m. GEORGE SULLIVAN. | ||
| 34. | xi. | JOHN QUINCY ADAM (ADAM) YATES, b. May 08, 1884, Florida; d. August 22, 1948, Florida. |
25.JOHN BURRELL4 YATES (WILLIAM BURRELL3, JAMES2, WILLIAM1) was born 1850.He married ELIZABETH COX.
More About JOHN BURRELL YATES:
Fact 1: 1888, Voted Crabgrass, Fla., age 36
Fact 2: 1906, Voted in same as Burrell Yates, age 56
Children of JOHN YATES and ELIZABETH COX are:
| 35. | i. | JOHN BURRELL5 YATES. | |
| ii. | MARY JANE YATES. | ||
| iii. | ELIZABETH YATES. | ||
| iv. | CAROLINA YATES. | ||
| v. | MARY ANN YATES. | ||
| vi. | AGNES YATES. | ||
| vii. | JAMES JACKSON YATES. | ||
| viii. | ELIZA YATES. | ||
| ix. | BRYANT YATES, b. 1887; d. 1951. |
| Notes for BRYANT YATES: Bryant Yates was a private in the 213 Infantry, 81 Division in World War I. |
| More About BRYANT YATES: Fact 1: 1928, Voted Kannasville, Fla., age 35, "Vet." |
Children of WILLIAM YATES and MARTHA JERNIGAN are:
| i. | WILBUR NEEDHAM5 YATES. | ||
| 36. | ii. | JACK PEEVY YATES. | |
| iii. | ELLEN YATES. | ||
| iv. | JOHN YATES. | ||
| v. | CLARENCE BURRELL YATES. | ||
| vi. | EWELL YATES. |
27.MARY NANCY (MOLLY)4 YATES (JACKSON GEORGE3, JAMES2, WILLIAM1) was born December 04, 1863 in Orange Co., Fla., and died March 25, 1939 in Kissimmee, Osceola Co., Fla..She married WALTER MANN BASS December 21, 1880.He was born September 26, 1862 in Orange Co., Fla., and died October 10, 1908 in Kissimmee, Osceola Co., Fla..
More About MARY NANCY (MOLLY) YATES:
Fact 2: Buried in Rose Hill Cemetery
Notes for WALTER MANN BASS:
Walter Bass was a cattleman and politician.
Children of MARY YATES and WALTER BASS are:
| i. | EMMA5 BASS, b. October 22, 1882. | ||
| ii. | HENRY BASS, b. May 15, 1884. | ||
| iii. | ADEL (ADE) GILBERT BASS, b. May 12, 1889. | ||
| iv. | CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (LUM) BASS, b. December 22, 1889. | ||
| v. | BERTHA LEE BASS, b. July 12, 1890. | ||
| vi. | ELLA MAE BASS, b. January 28, 1894. | ||
| vii. | LEROY BASS, b. June 14, 1898. | ||
| 37. | viii. | CLINTON BASS, b. December 04, 1899, Kissimmee, Osceola Co., Fla.; d. March 09, 1964, Osceola/Orange Co., Fla.. | |
| ix. | EDNA BASS, b. September 29, 1902. | ||
| x. | FLORA BELLE BASS, b. September 21, 1906. |
28.MATELLA4 YATES (JACKSON GEORGE3, JAMES2, WILLIAM1) was born 1878.She married TOM BASS.
Children of MATELLA YATES and TOM BASS are:
| i. | LLOYD5 BASS. | ||
| ii. | ELVIN BASS. |
29.OWEN4 YATES (WILLIAM3, WILLIAM I. (OR S. OR T.)2, WILLIAM1) was born 1832.He married ESTHER --------.
Notes for OWEN YATES:
Brooks County Sons, CSA.
Child of OWEN YATES and ESTHER -------- is:
| 38. | i. | MARY ELIZABETH5 YATES, b. 1859; d. November 27, 1918, Mitchell Co., Ga.. |
30.JAMES C. "JIMMIE"4 YATES (JAMES B.3, ELI2, WILLIAM1) was born Abt. 1820 in perh. Laurens Co., Ga.9, and died Abt. 1882 in prob. Randolph Co., Ala..He married MARY ELISABETH CATHARINE (LIZZIE) MITCHELL Abt. 1842 in Heard County, Ga. (?), daughter of WILLIAM MITCHELL and ANNA -------.She was born July 1825 in South Carolina10, and died February 16, 1889 in Fox Creek, Randolph Co., Alabama11.
Notes for JAMES C. "JIMMIE" YATES:
Jimmie Yates established a plantation in Texas Court Ground, near Franklin, in Heard Co., Ga. before the Civil War and after it, a farm in Fox Creek Beat, near Blake's Ferry, Randolph Co., Ala., just across the state line. He and his Cherokee wife, Elisabeth, raised a large family. He may have met her as a result of his grandfather Ely Yates winning land in "Cherokee" County in the 1832 Gold Lottery. In the 1840 Census (where both are otherwise missing) a James Yate appears with one other male in the 20-30 year-old category, two females 15-20 years old and an older man and woman 60-70, all in the same household in Murray County. Next door is J. Y. Yates (John Y. Yates?), who is 30-40, with two females 20-30 and two small children. Family stories tell how Jimmie Yates was not particularly energetic about hunting. Elisabeth would take the old muzzle loader "rifle gun" herself, load it, go out behind the house and come back with five or six squirrels for stew when the larder was low. No one knows what the middle initial stood for; it could have been Cyle. James Yates died between 1880 and 1883, as determined by the probate hearings on his father-in-law William O. Mitchell's will.
James Yates and Elizabeth Mitchell were married February 15, 1862 in
Greene County, Tennessee.Or they filed for their marriage certificate on that date. --Amy Yates Smith
More About JAMES C. "JIMMIE" YATES:
Ethnicity/Relig.: Part Indian (Creek?)
Fact 1: 1840, Murray County, Ga. Census (?)
Fact 2: 1850, Heard Co. Census (also 1860)
Fact 3: 1870, Randolph Co., Ala. Census (also 1880)
Occupation: Planter
Residence: Fox Creek, Randolph Co. near Blake's Ferry
Notes for MARY ELISABETH CATHARINE (LIZZIE) MITCHELL:
Elisabeth Yates and her people came from "way up north" (South Carolina) and lived in log houses. She was a full-blooded Cherokee. Mitchell was probably a corruption of an Indian name. Evidently, she married quite young, at sixteen or seventeen, just a few years after the Trail of Tears, when the Cherokees were forced off their traditional lands. According to the Census records, she was born in S.C. She was classified as a Free Person of Color, the designation for non-reserve Indians in the southern states before the Civil War. She was very pretty. She was said to have been a medicine woman and midwife. Her Indian name was Walela, Little Wing, and she was of the Bird Clan, from the Lower Towns (Ayrate, or Elati = "lower").She may have added the name Mary after the death of her older sister, and Catharine in honor of Eli Yates' wife, her husband's grandmother. The family still tells a story about her, how she stole her cattle back from Sherman's troops.
The story is as follows.Toward the end of the Civil War, General Sherman’s troops came through the area for the siege of Atlanta on their march to the sea. The hated general himself stayed for a time in the McConnell House across the Alabama line in Cedar Bluff, where he told a group of women thathis instructions were to destroy the South so that not enough food would be left even for a grasshopper.In Yates country, the Yankee soldiers called on the local farmers and drove off all their horses and cows. Elizabeth, remembered as a strong woman anddoctor, wasn’t going to put up with this. It just didn’t sit well with her. She cut her hair like a man, dressed up in a man’s clothes, and got two other women (a Cospner and a Burson) to go in with her. It was a sin in those days to dress in men's clothes. They traipsed into the little town of Wedowee. They found the Yankees and offered to take care of the cattle for them. The soldiers agreed. The women took care of the cattle. Elizabeth drove off the cattle and hid them in a canebrake in the Tallapoosa River. The next day, when Sherman’s men moved on, they left town on foot. Elisabeth restored the cattle to their owners and the whole county was grateful. Like a good warrior, she boasted of her good deed and made a record of it. One of her great-grandchildren, Fox Yates, remembers sleeping as a boy under the quilt Elisabeth sewed showing the cattle she stole back from the Yankees. He still has it. This became a traditional quilt pattern in Randolph Co.
More About MARY ELISABETH CATHARINE (LIZZIE) MITCHELL:
Comment 1: Born in July, judging from Census records
Comment 2: Born in South Carolina
Ethnicity/Relig.: Fullblooded Cherokee
Fact 1: 1840, Heard Co., Ga. census, p. 305, age 10-15
Fact 2: 1850, Heard Co., Ga. census
Fact 3: 1880, Randolph Co., Ala., census
Fact 4: 1860, Heard Co., Ga. census
Fact 5: 1870, Heard Co., Ga. census
Occupation: Housewife, medicine woman and midwife
Personality/Intrst: Good hunter, housekeeper, a great beauty
Residence: Heard County, Ga. and Randolph Co., Ala.
Children of JAMES YATES and MARY MITCHELL are:
| 39. | i. | WILLIAM "CRAZY BILL" MANNING5 YATES, b. August 17, 1843, Newnan (Coweta Co.), Georgia; d. October 04, 1932, Falkville, Beat 4, Morgan Co., Ala.. | |
| 40. | ii. | JOSEPHUS DARLING YATES, b. July 22, 1845, Heard Co., Ga.; d. May 13, 1930, Lanett, Chambers Co., Ala.. | |
| iii. | JOHN H. YATES, b. July 16, 1846; m. NANCY --------. |
| Notes for JOHN H. YATES: Possibly died in the Civil War. There is a John H. Yates listed as a prisoner of war in Chapitco, Maryland in April 1862. |
| More About JOHN H. YATES: Comment 1: May have died in the Civil War Fact 1: 1850, Heard Co. census Fact 2: 1860, Heard Co. census |
| 41. | iv. | MARY JANE YATES, b. June 20, 1847. | |
| 42. | v. | PETER THOMAS YATES, b. April 12, 1849, Heard Co., Ga.; d. August 20, 1912, Lineville, Clay Co., Ala.. | |
| 43. | vi. | MARTHA ANN "NANNIE" YATES, b. December 20, 1855, Georgia; d. Mississippi. | |
| 44. | vii. | JAMES JACKSON "JACK" YATES, b. May 29, 1857, Heard Co., Georgia; d. July 04, 1893, Hill Co., Tex.. | |
| 45. | viii. | ELIZABETH CATHERINE YATES, b. February 16, 1859, Heard Co., Ga.; d. December 07, 1946, Saline, La.. | |
| 46. | ix. | GEORGE WASHINGTON YATES, b. December 26, 1861, Heard Co., Ga.; d. October 07, 1901, Mills Co., Texas. | |
| 47. | x. | HENRY YATES, b. September 16, 1862, Heard Co., Ga.; d. December 30, 1957, Gadsden, Etowah Co., Ala.. | |
| 48. | xi. | DAVID "DAVE" MANAEN YATES, b. June 24, 1867, Texas Court Ground, Heard Co., Ga.; d. August 19, 1925, Cuthbert, Randolph Co., Ga.. |