When William Weeden Yates was born on 24 October 1835, in Adair, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Browning Yates, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Creel, was 34. He married Mary Susan Allen on 1 November 1856, in Adair, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 1, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Gradyville, Adair, Kentucky, United States for about 40 years. He died on 7 December 1914, in Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Adair, Kentucky, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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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