Freestone County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Yielding, William Melvin 
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Cemetery:           Salem Cemetery/Freestone Texas
Name:               William Melvin Yielding

Date Of Photograph: August 2005
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William Melvin Yielding
Birth: Jul. 15, 1888 Kaufman County Texas, USA
Death: Nov. 15, 1972 DonieFreestone County Texas, USA
dbl marker/ h/o Bertie Martin Yielding/ Together Forever

He was a husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was a farmer 
most of his life. His family was all musical. He played the fiddle, his sons 
played the guitar and daughters played the pump organ. I remember that they had 
get to gathers at the local school and everyone played. When they played at the 
house you had to dance in the yard because my grandmother was a strict Baptist 
so no dancing. He was the husband of Bertie Martin Yielding the father of Lee, 
Sybil, Leonard, Weldon, Imogene, Milburn, Juanita, Billie Marie& Herman

Additional Comments:
Among oldest in county. Founded Dec. 3, 1853, by the Lee families, Elders 
Thomas Dossey and C. T. Echols certifying to constitution of church. Elder 
Dossey named it. Five-acre site given by W. H. McSwane family. First building 
of logs was replaced later by frame structure. The present chapel was erected 
in 1961.

location: from Teague, take FM 80 south about 5 mi. to CR 731, go east about 1 
mi. to church and cemetery


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