James A Yeager Family Home Page
James A Yeager Family Home PageUpdated April 27, 2001 | |
| James Alan Yeager 403 Calle Corazon Oceanside,CA 92057 760-721-6603 | Our branch of the Yeager family are direct descendants of Nicholas Yeager ( Yager ) b1676-d1764. Nicholas migrated to Virginia from Germany in 1717. He was an original member of the Second Germania Colony. He became a naturalized citizen in 1722. His son,Adam,was born in Germany and was 6 years old when the family came to America. Adam had six children, among them a son also named Adam (Jr?). The family remained in Virginia until the late 1700's, when Elijah Yeager (Yager) b1782-d1852,son of Adam (Jr?) and great-grandson of Nicholas, migrated to Floydsburg in Oldham County, Kentucky. Elijah is buried in a small cemetery in Oldham Co, near what is now Pee Wee Valley. This small cemetery also contains the graves of his first and second wives and five of his seventeen chlidren. ( Note: His headstone marker is still in excellent condition and very readable) Elijah's son, James Monroe Yeager,b1814,left Kentucky and settled in Missouri near Madison. James Monroe Yeager's son, my great-grandfather, John Henderson Yeager, was born there. James Monroe's wife died sometime between 1843 and 1850 and John Henderson was brought back to Kentucky to live with his grandfather,Elijah. James Monroe then returned to Missouri where we believe he remarried. John Henderson Yeager b1843-d1896, was a teacher at the Kentucky School for the Deaf in Danville, Ky from 1875 until his death in 1896. John Henderson Yeager's obituary, published in that school's newspaper, indicates that he was born in Missouri and the family returned to Kentucky in 1850. John Henderson Yeager's wife, Anne Waller Herndon, was also a teacher at the KY School for the Deaf. |
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