Brief Life History of Zadok
When Zadok Yelverton Sr was born in 1754, in Johnston, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Yelverton, was 32 and his mother, Carolyn Nettles, was 38. He married Orpah Pugh in 1776, in Johnston, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1783. He died in 1819, in Marion, Marion, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 65.
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- Zadock Yelverton, "North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782"
- Jacob Yelverton in South Carolina. Court of Ordinary (Marion District, Liberty County) Wills
- Jacob & Zadock Yelventon in South Carolina Probate Records
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): habitational name from either of two places called Yelverton, in Norfolk or Devon. Medieval examples of the surname are from the Norfolk place, but the modern surname in Britain is associated mainly with Devon, where the earliest record of the surname is found in 1761, and is probably a substitution for Elford , an earlier form of the Devon placename. The Devon place, a hamlet in Buckland Monachorum, is not officially on record as Yelverton until the 19th century, when the Great Western Railway so named the station it built there in 1859. It is a dialect pronunciation of Elverton, which is first recorded in 1765 as an extended form of its medieval name Elford + -ton ‘town’. The Norfolk placename is recorded as Ailuertuna in 1086, and probably derives from the Old English personal name Æthelfrith or Geldfrith + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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