CHAMPAIGN COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: YEAGLEY, Adam (d. 1915)
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               Aged Shoemaker of Alvordton Is Dead
            Was Descendant of Good Old Revolutionary Stock

     Adam Yeagley died at the home of a niece at Woodstock, Champaign
county, Saturday evening, September 18, 1915, aged 70 years and 28
days.  He was born at Evansport, and came to Primrose, in Millcreek
township, in 1870, being a shoemaker by occupation, and in 1900 moved to
Alvordton where he continued at his trade till a few weeks ago when he
went visiting the home of a son, Arthur Yeagley of Shelby, Ohio.  He was
three times married and survived all his wives, and leaves three
children by his first marriage, Louis Yeagley of near Munson, Mich.,
Arthur Yeagley of Shelby, and Mrs. Louis Borton near West Unity, and
other relatives about the country, a nephew, Wm. Allen, being a resident
of Alvordton.  The remains were brought to his home at Alvordton,
Monday.  The funeral left the house at 1 p.m. Tuesday for the Walnut
Grove church of the Brethren near Primrose, where the services were
conducted by Rev. J. W. Kiser, Mr. Yeagley being a member of that
church, with interment in the cemetery west of Primrose.
     Mr. Yeagley's grandfather, Bartholomew Yeagley, was born in New Jersey,
July 4, 1776, and was a resident of Hagerstown, Md., at the opening of
the War of 1812, and had been for some years and was a shoemaker
employed in making shoes for the soldiers.  His wife had four brothers
in that war under Gen. Harrison.  He moved to Ohio afterward, and in
1843 located near Evansport, coming from Stark county with his seven
children his wife having died.  He died at a daughter's, Christmas Eve,
1876, near Evansport.  A son John, was the father of the subject of this
sketch, who located near Stryker from which place he went to Millcreek
township.  He was a good citizen and one more familiar figure has gone
from among his old companions and neighbors.

From The Bryan Press, Bryan, Ohio, Thursday, September 23, 1915.


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