Leah Rhoda Yeoman

Brief Life History of Leah Rhoda

When Leah Rhoda Yeoman was born about 1844, in Iowa Township, Wright, Iowa, United States, her father, Samuel Yeoman, was 30 and her mother, Nancy McMahon, was 27. She married David Carson Temple on 12 March 1860, in Washington, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Marion Township, Henry, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Dutch Creek Township, Washington, Iowa, United States in 1860. She died on 20 February 1875, in Washington, Iowa, United States, at the age of 32.

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Family Time Line

David Carson Temple
1836–1909
Leah Rhoda Yeoman
1844–1875
Marriage: 12 March 1860
Eugene Temple
1859–1861
Mary Temple
1862–
Rosemary Ella Temple
1860–1911
Nancy Margaret Temple
1863–1889
Rhoda Gertrude Temple
1873–1930

Sources (10)

  • Leak Temple in household of D C Temple, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Lea Rhoda Yeoman, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
  • Yeomon in entry for Rhoda G Reighard, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

World Events (7)

1846

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

1846

Iowa is the 29th state.

1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines

The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: status name, from Middle English yoman, yeman, used of an attendant of relatively high status in a noble household, ranking between a Sergeant and a Groom , or between a Squire and a Page . The word probably originated as a shortened form of Middle English yonge man. Later in the Middle English period it came to be used of a modest independent freeholder, and this latter sense may well lie behind some examples of the surname. In Scotland by the 16th century it had come to denote a landholder next in rank below a gentleman, specifically one who owned land worth at least forty shillings a year.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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