Brief Life History of Townsend Cage
When Townsend Cage Yates was born on 23 September 1847, in Pickaway, Ohio, United States, his father, John W. Yates, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth Blue, was 39. He married Susan Lodema Dern on 4 September 1870, in Pickaway, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Mad River Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States in 1910 and Madison, Ohio, United States in 1917. He died on 14 June 1917, in United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Pleasant Cemetery, Pleasant Township, Madison, Ohio, United States.
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- Tow* Yates, "United States Census, 1900"
- T. C. Yates, "Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958"
- T C Yates, "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English yates ‘gates’, plural of yate, Old English geat ‘gate’, hence a topographic or occupational name for someone who lived by the gates of a town or castle and who probably acted as the gatekeeper or porter. Compare Gates . Alternatively, a variant of the singular form Yate, with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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