Alfred Yates

Brief Life History of Alfred

When Alfred Yates was born on 14 October 1837, in White, Tennessee, United States, his father, Levi Yates, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Martha Frasier, was 19. He married Elizabeth Jones on 6 February 1857, in Sparta, White, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Woodburn, Warren, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 7 Bristow, Warren, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 21 October 1912, in Simpson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Shiloh United Methodist Church Cemetery, Scottsville, Allen, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alfred Yates
1837–1912
Elizabeth Jones
1837–1882
Marriage: 6 February 1857
Marce Ellis "Morris" Yates
1858–1940
William Robert Yates
1859–1903
Sidney S Yates
1859–1935
Emily Jane Yates
1863–1939
Levi Sanford Yates
1865–1933
Nancy J Yates
1866–1910
Martha Ann Yates
1869–1944
Hiriam Virgil Yates
1871–1928
Clara Yates
1872–1902
Henry Woodson Yates
1872–1914
Amanda E. Yates
1875–1910

Sources (26)

  • Alfred Yates, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Alfred Yeats, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Alfred Yates, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"

World Events (8)

1843

Historical Boundaries 1843: Warren, Kentucky, United States

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

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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