Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Yakey, J. N. 1844 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   J. N. YAKEY, senior member of the mercantile firm of Yakey & Law, Linton, was
born in 1844 in Guernsey County, Ohio, where he was reared and educated, and
which he continued making his home until twenty-four years of age. July 14,
1862, he tendered his services to his State as a private soldier in Company K,
One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, then organizing at
Zanesville. Although but a lad at the time of his enlistment, he was appointed
First Sergeant, and owing to a faithful discharge of the duties assigned him,
was promoted to the Second Lieutenancy of Company E, of the same regiment, and
thus assigned, first to the Third Army Corps, but subsequently to the Sixth
Corps, under Gen. Sedgwick. He never wavered in the immediate discharge of such
duties as devolved upon him, and throughout his military career was a brave
officer and an efficient soldier. He was an active participant in the battles of
Monocacy Junction, Thoroughfare Gap, Brandy Station, Mine Run, Bristow Station,
Centerville, Fisher's Hill, Petersburg and the surrender of Lee's army at
Appomattox. At the battle of the Wilderness, he received a severe wound, and was
captured by the enemy; being wounded, he was not guarded very carefully, and
taking advantage of this fact he and four comrades made their escape, and, after
innumerable hardships, reached the Union lines and became the heroes of the
hour. Mr. Yakey is one of the well-to-do men of Stockton Township. In 1867, Miss
Carrie Johnson became his wife, and to them have been born Cora R., William J.,
Lora O. and Ella.

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Stockton Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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