George Eugene Yeakley, 56 years old, 412 North F. Street, Fort Smith, Arkansas, died Friday night, March 5, 1968 in a local nursing home. A member of Van Buren Free Holiness Church, he was born November 4, 1911 at Natural Dam, Arkansas, the son of Samuel H. and Nannie Layman Yeakley and was a retired factory worker.

Survivors are eight sons; two daughters Grace and Jo Dean; a brother; three sisters, Edna, Dorothy and Gladys; and 14 grandchildren.

The furneral service was held in Fourth Street Baptist church at Van Buren Monday at 10 a.m. with Rupert Pixley and Plummer Hunter, the officating ministers. Burial, directed by Edwards Funeral Home, was in Hall Cemetery at Natural Dam, Arkansas.

Information was contributed to Find A Grave by Tonia Holleman , who has been on a project of documenting and photographing headstones in Historical and abandoned cemeteries in Arkansas and Oklahoma. If you have any additional information or corrections, please contact me at [email protected]. I was born and raised in Arizona and mother was Betty Louise Yeakley, daughter of Grover & Lora Edith Yeakley.

Added to by Linda Doile Morris
ANCESTORS
1-George Eugene Yeakley 1911-1968 & Vera Violet Smith 1917-1993--12 children
2-Samuel Huie Yeakley 1885-1966 & Nannie Jane Layman 1885-1961--6 children
3-Joseph Lincoln Yeakley 1864-1951 & Martha Carter 1870-1916--3 children
4-Samuel P. Yeakley 1820-1896 & Barsheba Ann Dittemore 1830-1911--9 children
5-Samuel Yeakley 1791-1820 & Mary Berger 1795-1836--3 children
6-Henry Yeakley 1771-1826 & Susanna McNees (McNeese) 1770-1836--14 children
7-George Yeakley 1738-1784 & Anna Marie Deppen 1740-1828--9 children

REV WAR GRANDFATHERS
George Yeakley
Christian Bohan Deppen
William Isiah McNeese
John Hartman Dittemore
Michael Berger Sr.
Hans Michael Nehs
Solomon Speers
Jacob Coil Jr

I have 3 more generations on the Dittemore family
6 on the Berger family
8 on the Speers family

Well I could go on but...there are many really important people in our family.
Mary Berger came from a family that came in 1607 with the Virginia Settlement
Susanna McNees ran the Underground RR in Greene Co., Tennessee
John Hartman Dittemore is buried at West Point Military Cemetery(West Point Post)

Mary Berger married Samuel Yeakley and his cousin Adam Dittemore and had 10 more children.

I am related to the following families that are included in this direct line also. Nehs--Zirkle who are related to my father also. This is my mother's family. Adam come into this with my 4th Great Grandmother, Lydia Dittemore Cotter who was Adams sister.

researched by Linda Doile Morris over 33 years. I have been decated to finding my family for my mother who was raised in an orphanage in St. Joseph, Missouri. Sadly she died over 50 years ago before I started my quest.