Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1910 — OBITUARY OF JOSEPH YEOMAN. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY OF JOSEPH YEOMAN.

Joseph Yeoman, the subject of this sketch, was born in Fayette county, Ohio, Sept. 2, 1826, and departed this life Feb. 24, 1910, aged 83 years, 5 months and 22 days. He removed from Ohio with his father, Stephen \ eoman, a native of New York state, and his mother, Hannah Smith Yeoman, a Virginian, to Jasper county, Indiana, in the fall of 1844, and located on a farm near Bluegrass, in Newton tp., where his father died in 1845. He was the oldest of a family of ten children; four brothers, James, John, Ira W. and Stephen, and five sisters, Sarah, Elvina, Mary, Minerva, and Elizabeth, of whom one brother, Stephen, and three sisters, Mary, Minerva and Elizabeth, survive him. On Pct. 28, 1852, he was united in marriage to Rachael A. Moore, and to this union nine children were born, Robert, Hannah, Martha, Minerva, Ruth, John, Mary, Theresa and Reuben, of whom Robert, Martha, Mary and Reuben are still living, the other five having died in childhood. He with his family resided on a farm in Newton tp., from about the time of his marriage until 1889, when he moved to Rensselaer and there lived until his death. The deceased was a member of the Free Will Baptist church for more than forty years, being faithful to the local organization until its disbandment. Besides his widow and above mentioned relatives, he leaves to mourn their loss thirteen grandchildren, two great-grand-child-ren, and other 'relative® and many friends.