Yeakey, John

Notes:

Will of Henry Yeakey; 1853

Posted by Dianne Byers on Wed, 11 Aug 1999

Surname: Yeakey, Shanks, Cook, Ford, Walker, Orr, Mitchell

Will Book 1, Page 53.
I Henry Yeakey of the County of Crittenden & State of Kentucky beingof sound &
disposing mind but weak and feeble in body do make & declare this asmy last
will & testament. 1st I will & bequeath all of my Estate both real &personal
to my beloved wife Caroline M Yeakey to have and to hold to her ownproper use
and Behalf so long as she may live 2d I will and bequeath to my sonLevy Yakey
one Dollar in addition to what I have given him. 3d I will & bequeathto my son
Henry Yeakey one Dollar in addition to what I have given him. 4th Iwill &
bequeath to my daughter Isabella Shanks one dollar in addition to whatI have
given her & her husband Minter A Shanks. 5th I will & bequeath to mydaughter
Alice Cook & her children all of my Estate both Real & personal that Imay have
at my death, subject to the above condition, that is that said Alicenor her
children are not to have any of my estate either real or personaluntill after
the death of my wife Caroline M Yeakey as aforesaid. 6th & lastly Iappoint my
friends R A Walker & Francis Ford my Executors, and I desire that theyshall
attend to & defend a certain suit now pending brought by my negroesagainst me
for their freedom & use all means in there power to prevent thenegroes from
Recovering and the Expenses to be paid out of my Estate Given under myhand and
seal this the 29th day of March 1853
Attest
F Ford
R A Walker
S M Orr
Jno Mitchell

Henry Yeakey (Seal)

State of Kentucky
Crittenden County Court September Term 1853
I Berry S Young Clerk of the County court for said county hereby certify that
at the September Term of said court the foregoing last will and Testament of Henry Yeakey was produced in court and proven to be such by the oaths of John
Mitchell & S M Orr two subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to berecorded
whereupon I have Recorded same and this certificate in my office Givenunder my
hand this 11th day of September 1855
Berry S Young clk

Note: Mary Polly McClure was his first wife.


Glenda MOORE, 803 Lieber St., Henderson, Ky 42420 USA
24 Apr 1774
gdmoore@henderson.net

!family records

!Will of Henry Yeakey: 1853 Crittenden Co., KY; Land Recordsof BarrenCo., KY; Circuit Cour t Record, 1830-33 he and wife Polly names asheir of Alice McClure (Russell Co. KY)

Lived in Bourbon & Barren Counties of KY 1804-1820; also lived inWinchester and Clark Counti es of KY

possibly bornin Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania -- but not proven as of11/28/99

surname often spelled as: Yokley, Yeakly, Yacky, Yaekle, Jacklel,Jackly, Jockel, or possibl y even Greaky

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Timeline of Henry Yeakey prepared by Bonita Luckow

Sep. 11, 1773--Va., Pa., or Kentucky, Birth of Henry Yeakey

Abt. 1775--Kentucky or Virginia, Birth of Mary E. (Polly) McClure,daughter of Alice Young Mc Clure

1792--Bourbon Co. Kentucky Taxpayers, Henry is listed

Jun. 06, 1795--Clark Co. Kentucky, Date of marriage bond

Jun. 09, 1795--Clark Co. Kentucky, Marriage of Mary (Polly) McClureand Henry Yeakey, Provide nce Baptist Church

1795--Clark Co. Kentucky Tax List, age over 21

Apr. 11, 1795--Clark Co. Kentucky?, birth of son, John

1796--Clark Co. Kentucky Tax List, owning 2 horses and 2 cows

1797--Bourbon Co. Kentucky Tax List

1799--Bourbon Co. Kentucky Tax List

Jan. 21, 1799--Bourbon Co. Kentucky, purchase of 50 acres from JacobAnderson & wife Nancy fo r 53 pounds, LDS film #018107, Vol E. P. 24

1800--Bourbon Co. Kentucky Federal Census

Bet. 1801-1809--Barren Co. Kentucky Tax Lists

Feb. 14, 1801--Barren Co. Kentucky?, birth of son, Samuel

1802--Barren Co. Kentucky court order book viewing road

Dec. 07, 1803--Barren Co. Kentucky, birth of son, Henry Jr.

Jan. 16, 1804--Barren Co. Kentucky, purchase 200 acres on FallenTimber Creek from Ralph & Is abel Petty, Deed book AA, P. 90

Aug. 23, 1805--Cumberland Co. Kentucky, granted 100 acres on Swan PondBottom, Book A, Page 1 72, Certificate of Settlement Act #385,February 1802

Sep. 11, 1806--Barren Co. Kentucky, birth of daughter, Alice

1808--Barren Co. Kentucky court order book marking wolves, sellingwolves

Aug. 05, 1808--Barren Co. Kentucky, birth of daughter, Isabel

Mar. 31, 1810--Barren Co. Kentucky, birth of son, Levi

1810--Barren Co. Kentucky Federal Census

1810--Barren Co. Kentucky court order book, appraise estate of AbrahamRitter

1812--Barren Co. Kentucky Militia

Jan. 11, 1813--Barren Co. Kentucky?, birth of daughter, Mary

May 29, 1814, Barren Co. Kentucky?, birth of son, James McClure

Sep. 26, 1814--Barren Co. Kentucky?, death of son, Samuel

Dec. 06, 1814, Barren Co. Kentucky?, death of son, John

Dec. 17, 1814--Barren Co. Kentucky, purchased 250 acres from Pugh &Nancy Price of Adair Co . Kentucky (land adjoining 1804 purchase)

Jul. 31, 1817--Cumberland Co. Kentucky, sold 100 acres on Swan PondBottom to John Stapp, Boo k 21, Pages 62-63

Oct. 12, 1818--Barren or Cumberland Co. Kentucky, death of Mary E.(Polly), wife of Henry

Oct. 19, 1818--Merom, Sullivan, Indiana, sold 100 acres Swan PondBottom, Cumberland Co. to J ames McClure, Book D, Pages 22-23

Sep. 01, 1819--Russell Co. Kentucky, Delegate to Russell CreekAssociation, Mt. Vernon Baptis t Church, Jamestown, Ky

Oct. 16, 1819--Adair Co. Kentucky, 2nd marriage to Sarah (Sally)Oldacre (maiden name Beck)

1820--Adair Co. Kentucky Federal Census

1820--Divorce from Sarah Oldacre*

Abt. 1820--Barren Co. Kentucky, sold land to John S. Gee

Oct. 10, 1821--Adair Co. Kentucky, marriage of son, Henry Jr. toAlmira Lair

Nov. 01, 1821--Adair Co. Kentucky, marriage of daughter, Alice toChristopher Cook

Oct. 03, 1822--Russell Co. Kentucky, asked for dismission from Mt.Vernon Baptist Church

Mar. 29,1823--Death of second divorced wife, Sarah (Sally)

Aug. 31, 1824--Hardin Co. Kentucky, 3rd marriage to Caroline MaryWintersmith, Little, Isle r (this was also her 3rd marriage)

Nov. 19, 1829--Meade Co. Kentucky, marriage of daughter, Isabel toMentor Achilles Shanks

1830--Meade Co. Kentucky Federal Census

1836-1840--Russell Co. Kentucky court order books, Russell Co. KyHistory & Families Book lis t Henry

Oct. 12, 1837--Meade Co. Kentucky, marriage of son, Levi to ElizabethBoard, daughter of Rich ard Board

1838--Russell Co. Kentucky, sold 1000 acres (filed under name Zackeryand hard to read)

1840--Livingston Co. Kentucky Federal Census

1844--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, elected trustee of Dunn Spring BaptistChurch

1850--Crittenden Co. Kentucky Federal Census (land value $1600.00)

Feb. 19, 1851--Applied for additional bounty land entitled from War of1812

Apr. 24, 1853--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, Death of Henry, buried CookCemetery

Sep. 11, 1855--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, Will probated

Jul. 09, 1856--Death of 3rd wife, Caroline

Apr. 29, 1859--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, death of son, Henry Jr.

Aug. 27, 1859--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, death of Elizabeth, wife ofson Levi

Nov. 20, 1861--Hardin Co. Kentucky, 2nd marriage of son, Levi to MaryJane Paris (maiden nam e Porter)

Jan. 22, 1863--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, death of daughter, Alice

Jan. 31, 1863--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, death of son, Levi

Jul. 21, 1869--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, death of daughter, Isabel

Jan. 20, 1870--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, death of Mentor Sharks,husband of daughter, Isabel

Oct. 07, 1875--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, death of Almira, wife of son,Henry Jr.

Mar. 28, 1876--Crittenden Co. Kentucky, death of Christopher Cook,husband of daughter, Alice


*William Lair of Russell Co. states in part that Henry married widowSally and divorced her a bout 1820, she was the sister of John Beck

**He also states he knew Henry when both were boys living in Winchester and he is 80 years of age the coming 1st of April,Crittenden Co. Circuit Clerks Office, Box 85, February 25, 185 7.
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Crittenden ;Co., Ky Cemetery Records--Henry Yeakey b 24 Apr l774, age79 yrs.

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July 14, 1853

Capt. HENRY YEAKEY born Pa., Sept. 11, 1773; moved to Ky. when young; joined Baptist Church in Barren Co., Ky. 1813; died Crittenden Co., Ky., April 25, 1853.
Source:
GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS
THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
AND THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1852-1856
By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1997

Henry married McClure, Mary E. on 06 Jun 1795 in , Clark, Kentucky. Mary (daughter of McClure, Halbert and Young, Alice) was born about 1777 in , Washington, Virginia; died on 12 Oct 1818 in , Barren, Kentucky; was buried in Oct 1818. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Notes:

Name Prefix: Mr.
REFN226
!Nauvoo Btz for dead Bk A Albert named Aunts &Cousins

!Petty Papers Vol 10 #2 pg 39 "Kty Baptists" Vol 1 by Spencer Statesthat the father in la w to Ralph Petty was James McClure.


Other possiblesiblings or children: Alexander McClure, Sarah McClure(md H. Kinkaid), John Mc Clure.
Some of these names are on the 1790 Clark Co., KY tax lists.

Possible given name: James


Slaying of the Halbert McClure Family
By Emory L. Hamilton

From the unpublished manuscript,
Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and
Holston Rivers, pages 111-113.

On the 20th of September, 1782, Colonel
Arthur Campbell wrote to Colonel William Davies
(1), saying:
On the 11th instant a party of Northward
Indians penetrated as far in this county as the
settlements on the head of Moccasin Creek, which
is within ten or twelve miles of Abingdon, attacked
a family of fourteen in number, (of course secured
in the interior part), killed the husband on the
spot, captivated the wife and six (6) of the
children, three of whom, after being a short space
in the enemies hands, was most inhumanely
murdered. One, a young woman, so long survived
the blows as told the tragic tale. Two made their
escape the first day and night. The old woman and
one child, with a considerable booty in horses,
household goods, etc., was carried forward three
days, some distance down the Sandy River.
When part of our duty, with a
perseverance in purpose, through a most rugged
and difficult way that does them honor, overtook
the Indians and wounded several of them;
recovered unhurt, the two remaining captives,
with the Indian's baggage and plunder they had
taken.
Just seven days before the above letter was
written, Campbell, had on the 13th of September,
1782, written to Col. Preston thusly: (2)
By a few lines received from Major
Dysart, (3) I am informed that the Indians have
murdered Halbert McClure's family, near our
Courthouse, and some other persons, the number
there unknown.
Captain John Carr, who was born on
Carr's Creek in Russell Co., VA, September 6,
1773, and once lived as a boy on Moccasin Creek,
wrote to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, in 1854 from
Sumner Co., TN (4) saying:
...After that time (1776) my father moved
near the head of Moccasin Creek. The Indians
came and killed part of a family and carried off
others as prisoners. This family lived within about
two miles of my father. Their names were
McClure. Sally, the oldest daughter was to be
married the next day after the attack was made by
the Indians. The father McClure was killed, also
a son of his by the name of Moses, and Katherine,
a grown girl, and John McClure, his oldest son
was wounded, but afterwards recovered.
Sally McClure made her escape from the
Indians the first night. She met the party who were
in pursuit of the Indians, as might be expected,
her intended husband was among them. His name
was Kincaid, who married her shortly after her
return.
James Oxer, who once lived on the Clinch,
filed a Revolutinary War pension claim as the only
living heir of his father, George Oxer, who was an
Indian spy on the Clinch and who died in
Montgomery Co., KY, in October 1809. In the
claim filed in Warren Co., Indiana, in 1858, he
states:
That his father served on the Clinch and
was married to Dorcas Shelby (Shelley) who died
in Kentucky in 1824; that his father was in a
skirmish with the Indians in which Captain
(Alexander) Barnett (5) recaptured the McClure
family of Virginia, and placed them in the care of
his father George Oxer.
Joseph Smathers who once lived in this
vicinity before emigrating to Kentucky, tells a very
confused version of this incident to the Rev. John
D. Shane, (6) in which he says:
McClure's lived at the head of Little
Moccasin Gap. McClure's cabin had a wooden
chimney (7) on it. They (Indians) had gotten
between the chimney and cabin. They had learned
to say the old man's grace. (Perhaps a table grace
or prayer they overheard). His daughter was to
have been married in a few days. He (the father
McClure) came and fell on his knee and begged
them to desist and was shot dead. They
tomahawked and scalped a daughter and tread on
her, and left her for dead, but she came to and
lived. Two other daughters were taken off. One
was the bride. They taunted her about her groom
and mocked the grace the old man said. There
never was half as much mischief done (by Indians)
on Holston as on Clinch.
Halbert McClure had settled in 1773, near
the head of Moccasin Creek in Washington Co., in
Rich Valley, on a 400 acre tract of land opposite
and a little east of Cabin Creek Ford and Bromley
Gap on the southside of the North fork of Holston
River. He assigned this tract of land to John
Kinkead in 1781. (8) He was one of the appraisers
of the estate of Benjamin Estill on April 17, 1782,
and was a Juror in Botetourt Co., at a court on 15th
of May, 1771.

(1) Virginia State Papers, Vol. III, page 316-17.
(2) Draper MSS 9 DD 38
(3) Major James Dysart, first Sheriff of
Washington Co., VA, lived east of Abingdon, on
Route U. S. 11, at Book Hall (still standing). He
died in Rockcastle Co., KY, in 1831. Was one of
the Long Hunters and also at the Battle of Kings
Mountain where he commanded a company
(4) Draper MSS 6 XX 99
(5) Alexander Barnett was County Lieutenant of
Militia for Russell Co., VA, after its formation in
1786, and was a militia officer serving on the
Clinch, while the territory was still Washington
Co., VA.
(6) Historical Collection of Rev. John D. Shane,
Draper MSS 12 CC 96-7.
(7) Early settlers often built this type chimney. It
was laid up of sticks of wood, pen fashion and
daubed with clay. They were called "stick and clay
chimneys".
(8) Washington Co., VA Entry Book 1, page 10 &
70.

Contact: Rhonda Robertson at: rsr@mounet.com

Halbert married Young, Alice about 1762 in , Augusta, Virginia. Alice (daughter of Young, Patrick and Todd, Isabella) was born about 1746 in , Augusta, Virginia; died after 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His will was probated May 19, 1761:

The Will of Patrick Young
In the name of God Amen the fourth day of April in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred
sixty one I Patrick Young of Augusta County and colony of Virginiabeing
weak of body yet of good and perfect memory and reson and consideringthe
uncertainty of life and that all flesh must yield unto Death wen itshall
please God to cale I do make and declear this my last will andtestament
in menor and form falawing and none else first I do will my body fromthe
Dust from where it was taken and my sole to God who gave it hopeing
through the merits of Jesus Christ to have all sins pardoned and to be
aquited in Day of Judgement and now for the settling of my worldlyestate
and such goods chattels as it has pleased God far above and beyound my
deserving to bestoe upon me I do order the sam and menor and forfalawing
I do order my wife Esibala Young and Joseph Walker to be my Lawful
Executors and first I do order that the nue house be put in tenantable
repair out of the moveable estate secondly I leave
to my welbeloved wife Isabella Young one third of all my moveableestate
after house is finished 3ly I leave my son James Young the plantationand
no more 4ly I order that the two parts of moveable Estate to beequally
dividded among my three daughters (ie) Sarah Young and Jannet Youngand
Allas Young in witness where of I have here unto my hand and seal theday
and year first above written
Signed seald and delivered
In presents of us
William Hall-x his mark
James Campbell-x his mark
Samuel McMurty-x his mark
Patrick Young - His mark

Hold for Augusta County May 19 1761 this last will and testament of
Patrick Young dec. was proved by the oaths of the witnesses as thereto
ordered to be Recorded

Copied by Ellen Summers Marmor
Copied by Vickie Mott Friddle 8/24/00 - friddlej@surfsouth.com

SOURCE: Ellen Summers Marmor [ emarmor99@aol.com ] - There is noquestion
about the names of his children the will is easy to read. AlthoughJohn
Summers raised the children there father deserves to be remembered.You
will notice on Chalkley's the mis spelling of names. On the will
Isabella's name is spelled two different ways. Possibly written oneway
on the first spelling and corrected with the second spelling. Therewere
many people lost due to the fighting with the Indians and Patrick was
also a soldier (for lack of a better word)

Dave Rayburn has a map showing the area John Summers and Isabellalived.
I was in the area last Mothers day (2000). They were in the area of
Natural Bridge, this part of the country has narrow valleys and would
have been very, very hard work. That is probably part of the reasonJohn
and Isabella married so quickly after Patricks death. Our theory isJohn
and Isabella were part of the Boone expeditions into
Kentucky.

Notes

CHRONICLES OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH SETTLEMENT OF VA; by Lyman Chalkley

Will Book 3--Page 196--18th November 1762--Joseph Walker and
Isabella Young settlement of the estate of Patrick Young, Recorded.
Paid; John Law, John Taylor Thomas Stuart, John Hall, Samuel McMurtry,
James Todd, Gilbert Crawford, Steven Orson, John Hickman, DavidDryden,
Hugh Cunningham, Robert McElhesny, William Hall. Sale bill to John
Collear, James Davis, Andrew Hall,
James O'Bryan, Samuel McMurty, Ores Gibson, Isabella Young.

Vol 3-Page 392--9th June 1769--John Summers and Isabella of the
forks of the James River, to James McMath and Susannah, his wife ofsaid
forks, Z60, 440 acres in forks of James. Corner of William McKees on
Borden's patent line, Corner James Davis, Corner Samuel Wilson, Hugh
Cunningham's line, corner Samuel McMurtry. Teste: James Davies, John
McMurtry, John Young.

Bond date 23 day June 1761--John Summers and Isabella, his wife,
late Isabella Young. Complain of James Campbell and Richard Woods.

Page 258 7th May 1751--James Young, Miller and plantationer to
Sarah McMurtry z400, marriage
contract to be married according to the Rules of the Church ofScotland,
Sarah was a widow with children. Patrick son of James. Teste: John
Collyer, WM Brown proved and recorded 20th November 1755

Page 749
Samuel Davis vs. James Todd--Samuel Davis married Hannah Todd
daughter of James Todd 1758.

18th May, 1760--James Young, miller, to Matthew Young farmer 1501
1/2 acres, where Matthew lives on Whistle Creek of James; corner Lou
Todd. Teste: Arthur and Abraham Brown, James McGowan. (note Lou Todd
is probably Low Todd)

Robert Young to William Todd 400 acres on the north br of Buffalow
Creek, Benjamin Borden's line.

Will Book #3
Page 249--John Summers Bond (with James McDowell and James Trimble)
as guardians (appointed) to Sarah, James, Jannet and Alex. Young,
orphans of Patrick Young.

1740 Headrights--50 acres per person Robert Young, Agnes, John,
Samuel and James Young from Ireland.

Page 309 15th May--James Young and Sarah, Patrick Young and Isabell
to Andrew Hall, z50, 110 acres being the track where James Young now
liveth, including James Young mill on the fork of the James River
crossing Whistle Creek corner Patrick Youg. Teste: John Lapesly,
Samuyel McClur.
Delivered Wm. Bowyer 1758.


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Patrick married Todd, Isabella about 1745 in , Augusta, Virginia, Usa. Isabella (daughter of Todd, Samuel and Houston, Ann) was born in 1733 in Armagh, Ireland; was christened in in , Augusta, Virginia; died about 1818 in , Barren, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She appears to have been the widow of Patrick Young who dated his will
April 4, 1761 in Augusta County, Virginia. It was probated May 19,1761
and named as executor his wife, Isabella.
(Chronicles of Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia. Records of Augusta
Co, VA 1745 - 1800 by Chalkley Vol. III, p.62.)

In Patrick's will he names his wife, ISABELLA, and son, JAMES, and
daughters, SARAH, JANNET, and ALEXANDRIA. In the same source in Vol.II
p. 342 is a lawsuit of Summers vs Campbell where John Summers andwife,
Isabella, late Isabella Young, complain of James Campbell and Richard
Woods, dated June 23, 1761.

So, between May 19, 1761 and June 23, 1761 John Summers must havemarried
the widow Isabella Young. As further proof that this is the Isabellathat
John Summers married is from the same source in Vol. III, p. 78 dated
November 18, 1762 where John Summers makes bond with James McDowelland
James Trimble as guardian to orphans of Patrick Young who are Sarah,
James, Jannet and Alexandria Young. From the same source in Vol. I p.137
dated August 19, 1767, Sarah Young age 16 and James Young age 15,orphans
of Patrick Young, chose Samuel Todd as their guardian and he was
appointed guardian of Jannet and Alexandria Young also. Sarah was born
circa 1751. If her mother was at least 18 years old at Sarah's birth,
then Isabella was born circa 1733.

At first glance it seems strange that Isabella would marry so soonafter
her husband's death. However, she had four children under 10 years ofage
and the living conditions were rather primitive and impossible for a
woman alone to make a living. John Summers had a baby son, John, Jr,
about 18 months old and needed a mother for his child. So, apparently,
they married to solve both their problems.
SOURCE: pattywoo@bellsouth.net (Patty Woodall)