When Samuel Yarbrough was born in 1715, in Amelia, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, William Yarbrough, was 42 and his mother, Eleanor Chandler, was 15. He married Sarah "Sally" Bumpus before 1725, in Amelia, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in November 1769, in Orange, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 54.
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English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Yarburgh (Lincolnshire) or Yarborough Camp in Croxton (Lincolnshire), both of which derive from Old English eorth-burg ‘earth-work’ (eorth ‘earth, ground’ + burg ‘fortress’). This form of the surname is now rare in Britain.
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