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Descendants of William Yates, R.S.

Generation No. 2

2. BURRELL² YATES (WILLIAM¹) was born 1771, and died Abt. 1839 in Florida. He married SARAH COTHERN, daughter of JOSIAH COTHERN and JEMIMA SMITH.

Notes for BURRELL YATES:
Burrel Yates married Sarah Cothern, whose mother, Jemima Smith was a Cherokee fullblood and whose father was Josiah Cothern. He was among the early settlers of Montgomery County in the Little Ohoopee District on Pendletons Creek around 1800, together with Peter, Eli, and William Yates. He participated in the War of 1812. Burrel was said to have been in Warren County, Georgia in 1820. But he was in Emanuel County, where he served as a Lieutenant, May 1, 1821 through July 5, 1822. He was in Appling Co. about 1824. By 1839 he had arrived in Hamilton County, near Jasper, Florida. Three generations of Yateses lived close together on or near the Suwanee River in Florida, where they were remembered for being feuding and litigious. Several in this line are buried at the Turkey Creek Baptist Church cemetery 15 miles from Bartow in Hillsborough County.

More About BURRELL YATES:
Ethnicity/Relig.: Baptist
Fact 1: 1812, Soldier in War of 1812
Fact 2: 1805, Montgomery Co. Tax List (also 1806)
Fact 3: 1820, Emanuel Co., Ga. Census
Fact 4: 1839, Voted in Hamilton Co., Fla.
Fact 5: 1830, Hamilton Co., Florida census
Occupation: Farmer and rancher
Residence: Hamilton Co., Fla.

More About SARAH COTHERN:
Ethnicity/Relig.: Halfblood Cherokee

Children of BURRELL YATES and SARAH COTHERN are:

	i.	BURRELL³ YATES.
	ii.	NEEDHAM YATES, m. ELIZABETH SCOTT, August 25, 1830, Camden Co., Ga..
	iii.	SALLY YATES, b. Abt. 1791; m. ALAWAY ROACH, March 13, 1815, Laurens Co., Georgia.
6.	iv.	PHAEDEN (PHADA) YATES, b. 1793; d. 1870, Wilcox County, Ga..
7.	v.	ELIZABETH "BETSY" YATES, b. 1798, South Carolina; d. 1862.
8.	vi.	SERINA LAVINIA YATES, b. 1799, Jefferson County, Georgia; d. 1879.
9.	vii.	WILLIAM M. YATES, b. 1808, Creek Indian Territory, Ga.; d. April 24, 1891, Seffner, Hillsborough Co., Fla..

3. JAMES² YATES (WILLIAM¹) was born 1776 in South Carolina ², and died in Florida. He married AGNES "AGGIE" ROWLAND April 25, 1817 in Laurens Co., Ga.³, daughter of JOHN ROWLAND. She was born Abt. 1800 in Georgia, and died in Florida.

Notes for JAMES YATES:
James and Agnes were apparently the first Yateses to reach Florida Territory. They and the whole family first left the Montgomery-Laurens-Emanuel County area of Georgia for Appling County and later went to Camden County, in the extreme southeast of the state. They "crawled" over into Duval County, Florida, living on Black Creek near Jacksonville, around 1840. They then settled on Shingle Creek, near present-day Disney World in 1853 (Ruth Yates Spence). They are listed in the 1860 Brevard County census. Their graves in the old Yates Cemetery were bulldozed in the 1960s or '70s for an orange grove, but Ruth Yates Spence remembers visiting them with her mother Lenora Lamb Yates and weeding the plots twice a year. The Yates family in Florida says their ancestors came from Georgia and Alabama, the Carolinas and Virginia (in reverse order). James, like his brother Burrell, married a Cherokee.

More About JAMES YATES:
Comment 1: 1850, Duval County, Fla. (Black Creek) census, p. 111
Comment 2: 1860, Brevard County, Fla. (Shingle Creek) census
Fact 1: 1817, Laurens Co., Ga.
Fact 2: 1805, Montgomery Co. Tax List
Fact 3: 1820, Laurens Co. Census
Fact 4: 1830, Appling Co., Ga. as James Yeats, p. 11
Fact 5: 1840, Camden County, Ga. census, p. 8
Occupation: Farmer, rancher
Residence: Georgia and Kissimmee area of Florida

Notes for AGNES "AGGIE" ROWLAND:
According to great-granddaughter Ruth Yates Spence of Shingle Creek, Florida, Aggie Rowland was Cherokee. Her people came with James Yates to Florida, where the last of their children was born, and some of them still live in the Shingle Creek area.

More About AGNES "AGGIE" ROWLAND:
Ethnicity/Relig.: Cherokee

Children of JAMES YATES and AGNES ROWLAND are:

10.	i.	NEEDHAM³ YATES, b. Abt. 1815; d. March 1870, Fort Christmas, Fla..
11.	ii.	JAMES YATES, b. 1822, Georgia.
12.	iii.	HENRY YATES, b. Abt. 1823, Georgia.
13.	iv.	WILLIAM BURRELL YATES, b. 1824.
	v.	SARAH ANN YATES, b. 1829; m. GEORGE CAMP TIPPINS.
14.	vi.	ELIZABETH (ELIZA) YATES, b. March 02, 1831, Ga.; d. November 23, 1924, Conway, Orange Co., Fla..
	vii.	MARY YATES (TWIN), b. Abt. 1837; d. August 23, 1912, Flat Ford, Fla.; m. JOHN J. BARBER, 1855, Columbia County, Florida.
15.	viii.	MARTHA YATES (TWIN), b. Abt. 1837; d. Abt. 1857.
	ix.	FRANCIS YATES, b. Abt. 1840.
16.	x.	JACKSON GEORGE YATES, b. August 22, 1840, Black Creek Dist., Duval County, Florida; d. March 22, 1916, Kissimmee, Osceola Co., Fla..

4. WILLIAM I. (OR S. OR T.)² YATES (WILLIAM¹) was born Abt. 1778 in Georgia, and died Aft. 1860 in Florida (?).

Notes for WILLIAM I. (OR S. OR T.) YATES:
This William Yates was a laborer at the age of 81 living near James and Aggie Yates near Orlando in Brevard County, Florida. He may have been a brother of James, Eli, and Burrell from old Montgomery County, Georgia. This William Yates appears to have paid a poll tax in Montgomery Co., Ga. in 1805, meaning he owned no land at the time there. He was called Jr. to distinguish him from William Yates Sr., apparently the father of Eli, James and Burrel Yates. His sons Joseph and William were born in Montgomery Co. in 1805 and 1809, respectively. He may also be the same as a William Yeates of Captain Dedges' District in Appling County who drew land in Lee County in the 1827 Land Lottery.

More About WILLIAM I. (OR S. OR T.) YATES:
Fact 1: 1860, Brevard Co. census, age 81
Occupation: Laborer (soldier?)

Child of WILLIAM I. (OR S. OR T.) YATES is:

17.

WILLIAM³ YATES, b. January 24, 1809, Montgomery Co., Ga.; d. July 28, 1874, Brooks Co., Ga. (?).

5. ELI² YATES (WILLIAM¹) was born 1778 in Georgia ⁴, and died June 1859 in Heard Co., Ga.⁵. He married KATHARINE -------- Abt. 1800 in perh. Jefferson or Montgomery Co., Ga.. She was born Abt. 1785 in Georgia ⁶, and died Aft. 1860 in Heard Co., Ga.?⁷.

Notes for ELI YATES:
Eli Yates was one of the younger children of William Yates. He was born in Georgia. The first mention we find of him is as the chain carrier and witness on a land sale of Peter Yates in 1799 in Montgomery Co. Apparently he was living near his four brothers, James, Peter, William and Burrel in Montgomery Co. in 1805, when they paid taxes and entered a land lottery. In 1804 Burrel, Eli and Peter are given as being from Little Ohoopee District, Montgomery County. Eli's land was part of the Mark Mayo grant on Colemans (?) Creek. It was in the general area of Pendleton's Creek, a tributary of the Ohoopee River. He also bought land on Mulepen Creek from John Wilkinson on December 1, 1810. Eli Yates drew land in Baldwin Co. in the 1807 Land Lottery in Montgomery Co. and was formally granted that land by Governor Mitchell on September 30, 1813. The land fell in Emanuel County; Abner Winn was a neighbor. (Apparently, he was not "cut" into Emanuel in 1812 like others in the old 55th District.) Here, Eli and Katherine became charter members of the Gum Log (now Oaky Grove Primitive) Baptist Church, started as a brush arbor amid the pine barrens of Emanuel (now Johnson) Co. about 1818. Their son James B. Yates moved to Laurens Co., later Houston Co., later Alabama. After moving to Fayette Co. sometime before 1830, Eli won land in Section 1 of "Cherokee" County in the so-called Gold Lottery of 1832. The land fell in Lumpkin (later Dawson) County and he received a formal grant from Governor Schley on January 25, 1836. He and Katharine may be the two older persons living in the James Yates household with two younger females and another man in Murray County in the 1840 census, as Murray is in the general area of Lumpkin. If so, the James Yates was their grandson, James C. Yates. They lived near James C. and Elisabeth Yates in Franklin, Heard County, Georgia from sometime before 1850 until their deaths. Ely's death record occurs in the Heard Co. Mortality Schedule of 1860. Katharine, his widow, was living in the Robinson household in the 1860 census.

More About ELI YATES:
Cause of Death: Old age
Comment 1: Acc. to Arthur Yates, pronounced EE-lee
Comment 2: 1840, May be elder man in hh. of J. Yates, Murray Co. census
Ethnicity/Relig.: Baptist
Fact 1: 1799, Montgomery County land transaction
Fact 2: 1820, Emanuel Co., Ga. Census, p. 90, 1824 Tax List
Fact 3: 1830, Fayette Co., Ga. Census
Fact 4: 1850, Heard Co., Ga. Census
Fact 5: 1859, 1860 Heard Co., Ga. Mortality Schedule
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Georgia

More About KATHARINE --------:
Fact 1: 1860, Living with Robinson family in Heard Co.

Children of ELI YATES and KATHARINE -------- are:

18.	i.	JAMES B.³ YATES, b. 1801, perhaps Montgomery Co., Georgia; d. Aft. 1850.
	ii.	FEMALE YATES, b. Abt. 1804.
	iii.	MALE YATES, b. Abt. 1807.
	iv.	FEMALE YATES, b. Abt. 1808.
19.	v.	JOHN PETER YATES, b. Abt. 1812; d. Bef. 1851, Tallapoosa Co., Ala. (?).
20.	vi.	MARTHA YATES, b. Abt. 1815.
	vii.	MALE YATES, b. Abt. 1816.
	viii.	MALE YATES, b. Abt. 1818.
	ix.	MALE YATES, b. Abt. 1824.
	x.	MALE YATES, b. Abt. 1826.
	xi.	FEMALE YATES, b. Abt. 1827.

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