BIO:  YEAGER, Nicholas, s/o Vincent & Sarah (Miller) Yeager

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com    (Diana Flynn)

YEAGER,   MILLER,   DILLEY,   JOHNSON,   THOMAS,   LISTON,   POUND

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
FAIRBANKS TWP.
PAGE 820
NICHOLAS YEAGER was born in Vigo County, Ind., December
17, 1830, eldest son of eight children born to Vincent and Sarah
(Miller) Yeager, natives of Ohio and Kentucky respectively, he
coming to Indiana at an early day.  Nicholas, our subject, remained
with his parents until twenty-three years of age, receiving a fair
education in the primitive schools of the day, and worked at carpen-
tering and on the farm.  He was married, May 12,1853, to Miss
Isabel Dilley, eldest daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Johnson)
Dilley, who were early pioneers of Sullivan County, and to this
union have been born twelve children--James F., John F., Sarah
A., Nancy J. (deceased), Francis V., William C., Mary F.,
Vienna B., Jo Dilley, Nora A., Ida P. and Diana A.  Mrs. Yeager
died March 29, 1879, and on September 30, 1883, Mr. Yeager
married Mrs. Sarah E. (Thomas) Liston, daughter of Elijah and
Sarah (Pound) Thomas.  Mr. Yeager has served as Justice of
the Peace four years.  His farm consists of 240 acres.  Mrs.
Yeager is a Baptist, and Mr. Yeager is an A. F. & A. M., a
R. A. M. and a Republican.
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