Biographical Sketch of Henry P. Yeary, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Henry P. Yeary, a native of Lee County, VA., was born in 1833, and is
the tenth in the family of fourteen children born to Henry and Susan-
nah (Smith) Yeary, natives of Lee County, VA., and of German and Welsh
descent, respectively.  The paternal grandfather was a native of Sax-
ony, Germany.  In 1841 the parents moved to Arkansas, where the father
died in 1857, in his sixty-fourth year; he was a soldier of the War of
1812, a farmer by occupation, and a Democrat in politics.  The mother
died in Crawford County, MO., in 1871.  Henry P. was reared to the 
pursuit of farming, and in 1861, with three brothers, he volunteered
in Company G, Phelps' Regiment, Missouri Infantry, Union Army, and
served six months, participating in the battle of Pea Ridge; he after-
ward served for several months in the Enrolled Militia.  He was one of
a party of thirty-eight Union men who were refugees to Missouri upon
the breaking out of the war.  Since 1862 Mr. Yeary has lived on his
present farm, which consists of 396 acres.  In 1864 he married Mrs.
Millie J. O'Neal, who was born in 1830.  Three children have blessed
this union, viz.: Milton B., Henry D. and Laura J.  Mrs. Yeary has
five children by her first husband, viz.: John C., Amanda, Mary, James
and Edwin.  Mr. Yeary is a Republican in politics, and has been a res-
ident of Crawford County for the past twenty-five years.

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