Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Yerkes, S. S. 1816 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   S. S. Yerkes, farmer, Snoddy's Mills, was born in Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, August 2, 1816, and is the son of William and Deborah Yerkes. His
father died in 1829, at the age of fifty. His mother was born in 1779, and died
August 28, 1844. Mr. Yerkes came to Fountain county in 1843, and began for
himself by working by the month. In this way he earned money to buy some land,
and by hard work and economy he has become the owner of 413 acres of land, which
he has improved and got under good cultivation. He has been twice married. His
first wife was Letitia Watson, married in 1848. She was a native of Kentucky,
born August 2, 1827, and died in 1854. He was married again in 1855, to Ann M.
Bodine, daughter of William Bodine, who was among the early settlers of Fountain
county. Mr. Yerkes has two sons: William and Rolen, and one dead, Charles H.

Additional Comments:

Wabash Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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