Dallas County, TX - Biographies -  Nathan A. Yeargan

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John Henry Brown's History of Dallas County, 1892, pp. 472-473

NATHAN A. YEARGAN, of Dallas county, was born in Williamson county,
Tennessee, in 1821, the fifth of twelve children born to Bartlett and
Mary Ann (Lawrence) Yeargan, natives of North Carolina and Virginia.
When a young man his father went to Tennessee with his parents where be
died in 1853, and the mother also died in that State in about 1865.
Grandfather Lawrence participated in the Creek war, and the Yeargan
family  are among the early pioneers of Tennessee. Nathan A. was reared
to farm life and educated in the subscription schools of Tennessee. He
moved to Texas in 1854. In 1862 be enlisted in T. C. Hawpe's Regiment,
later was in General Spate's Regiment, and was in service nearly three
years. He participated in the battle of Newtonia, Missouri, and after
being dismounted Mr. Yeargan drove a band wagon, being principally in
Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri. At the close of the service he
returned to Dallas county, purchased a farm in Precinct No. 1, which he
afterward improved. In 1875 he came to the city of Dallas, and engaged
in fruit gardening, which he followed many years. Mr. Yeargan was
married in Tennessee, in 1844, to Charlotte S. Davis, a native of
Bedford county, Tennessee, and daughter of Henry and Nancy (Sims) Davis,
natives of Virginia. At an early day they became pioneers of Bedford
county, where they remained until their death. Mr. and Mrs. Yeargan have
had ten children, namely: John, a real-estate agent of Dallas; Jennie,
wife of William Rogers, of Dallas; Powell, also a resident of Dallas;
Thomas, of Fairland, a suburb of Dallas; William Nathan, who died in
1881; Anna, wife of Rev. W. R. Manning of Louisville, Texas; Emma, wife
of Thomas Eudes, of Weatherford; Edmund D., engaged in the grocery
business on Ervay street; Frusanna and Fletcher, in stationery business
in Dallas.

Mr. Yeargan affiliates with the Democratic  party, and religiously both
he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which
he has been a member for over fifty years. He is active in church and
Sabbath-school work, and aided in establishing the Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church, and is one of the charter members of the Loyal League.