Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — Obituary of Mrs. Joseph Yeoman. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Mrs. Joseph Yeoman.

Mrs. Rachael A. (Moore) Yeoman was born in Johnson county, Indiana, near Trafalgar, August 20, 1833, and died. in Rensselaer, Indiana, September 18, 1912, aged 79 years and 28 days. She, with her father’s family, moved to Jasper county in the year 1849 and located on a farm four miles west of Rensselaer. She was united by marriagq to Joseph Yeoman October 28, 1852, and lived west of Rensselaer in Newton township until the year 1889, when they moved into the bouse in the northwest part of the city, from which death called her hence. To this union nine children were born; six girls and three boys. Her husband, four girls and one boy have entered the silent land before her. She was bereaved of her husband on February 24, 1910. In the year 1876, during a series of revival meetings, both Mr. and Mrs. Yeoman were converted and united with the Free Will Baptist church, and both remained in the communion of the "church of their first love to the end of their days. Mrs. Yeoman lived a sweet Christian life that is highly commended by all her neighbors and friends. In her father’s family there were seven children, four girls and three boys, only one of whom, Mr. Robert M. Moore, survives to follow her remains to their last resting place. She leaves to mourn over her taking away, one brother, Robert M. Moore, two daughters, Martha E. Yeoman and Mary E. Rush, two sons, Robert J. told Reuben C., thirteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren, with other relatives and a host of friends.