Samuel Barton Yeager, Catahoula, Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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Date:  Dec. 1999
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Samuel Barton Yeager, planter, Morville, La., is a
native of Tennessee, as were also his parents, John
and Sarah (McClesky) Yeager.  The father was a
successful farmer and died in 1835, when his son,
Samuel, was but little over a year old.  Their family
consisted of eight children-five sons and three
daughters-who are named in the order of their births
as follows:  Elijah,  Angeline,  James,  Caroline, 
William (now residing near Natchez, Miss.),  Samuel
Barton (subject) and  John and  Sarah, (twins). 
Samuel Barton Yeager was born in Lincoln county in
1834, grew to manhood there, and equipped with a fair
education secured at Fayetteville, went with his
mother to Jacksonport, Ark., in 1852, where he
remained for five years, conducting his mother's
plantations.  In 1857 he returned with his mother to
Tennessee, where she wished to make her home, saw her
comfortably settled, and then went to Tensas parish,
La.  The mother died in Tennessee in July, 1874. 
After going to Louisiana, Mr. Yeager hired out to
Kibby & Shields for the year 1858 as overseer.  In
1859 he west to Concordia parish and engaged as an
overseer for John Holmes, on Brushy bayou.  From there
he went to Catahoula parish and conducted business for
Mrs. Louisa Gilbert up to 1862.  During that year he
enlisted in Col.