John Fremont Yeager

    John Fremont Yeager, is a thoroughgoing farmer whose excellent place is situated in Fairbanks Township, Sullivan County. He is a native of the township where he now resides, born October 4, 1855, a son of Nicholas and Isabell (Dilley) Yeager, natives of Sullivan County, Indiana. The paternal grandparents were Vincent and Sarah Yeager, natives of Pennsylvania and Kentucky, respectively, and the maternal grandparents were Joseph and Nancy (Johnson) Dilley, the former born in Scotland and the latter in Kentucky. The father, Nicholas Yeager, is still living in Fairbanks Township, aged seventy-eight years.

    John Fremont Yeager's parents had five sons and seven daughters, he being the next to the eldest child in the family. He remained at home until twenty-three years of age, when his father gave him thirty acres of land, which he cultivated and added to until he now owns one hundred and fifty-seven acres, all in Section 1. This includes about fifteen acres of good timber land. upon this farm, Mr. Yeager carries on general farming and stock raising in a successful manner, thus making him one of the independent men of the county. In his youth he had the advantages of the common schools, which fitted him for the occupation which he has always followed, that of agriculture. Since 1875 he has been a member of the Christian Church, in which he has served as an overseer since 1888. Politically he is a staunch defender of Republican party principles.

    Concerning is domestic life it may be said that he married, October 13, 1878, Ida Piety, born in Fairbanks Township, a daughter of William H. and Jane (Perry) Piety. The father was born in Vigo county, and the mother in Fairbanks Township. Mr. and Mrs. Yeager are the parents of the following children:

• Everett, of California.
• Isabell, who died in infancy.
• May, a school teacher, at home.
• Addie, of the Normal School at Terre Haute.
• Lewis, now a resident of the State of Washington.
• Morris, at home.
• Belle, of Fairbanks Township.
• Glenn, at home.
• Carrie, at home.
• Ralph, who died at the age of four years.
• Floyd, at home.

Source: A History of Sullivan County, Indiana. Closing of the first century’s history of the county and showing the growth of its people, institutions, industries and wealth. Thomas J. Wolfe, Editor. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909, page 340.