INTIMATE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA. compiled by Frances Hallam Hurt 1976 and posted at http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapittsy/revolutionary.htm.
YANCY CABIN in Elba, Va. was built circa 1750.
Elba is now known as Gretna, Va.
The cabin is now known as Yates Tavern.
Stephen Yates Sr. died in 1836. He is buried in the Yates Family Cemetery with no Tombstone on his grave. This family cemetery is not far from The Yates Tavern in Gretna, Virginia.
According to 18th Century Landmarks of Pittsylvania County, Va. by Madelene Vaden Fitzgerald and Frances Hallam Hurt, Stephen Yates paid a tax of $8.50 in 1813 to keep an ordinary at his house.
In 1818, Yates paid the sum of $1.67 tax, and a license granted him "to keep a house of private entertainment where he now resides."
Contributed by: Linda Baird on 05 Jul 2014.
INTIMATE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA. compiled by Frances Hallam Hurt 1976 and posted at http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapittsy/revolutionary.htm.
YANCY CABIN in Elba, Va. was built circa 1750.
Elba is now known as Gretna, Va.
The cabin is now known as Yates Tavern.
Stephen Yates Sr. died in 1836. He is buried in the Yates Family Cemetery with no Tombstone on his grave. This family cemetery is not far from The Yates Tavern in Gretna, Virginia.
According to 18th Century Landmarks of Pittsylvania County, Va. by Madelene Vaden Fitzgerald and Frances Hallam Hurt, Stephen Yates paid a tax of $8.50 in 1813 to keep an ordinary at his house.
In 1818, Yates paid the sum of $1.67 tax, and a license granted him "to keep a house of private entertainment where he now resides."
Contributed by: Linda Baird on 05 Jul 2014.
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