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Another Pioneer Gone to his Rest
One by one the old settlers of the Platte Purchase are gathered to their fathers and the early pioneers are fast becoming extinct.
We are now called upon to chronicle the demise of Mr. Pleasant Yates, who forty years ago settled in this county upon a farm purchased by him about five miles southwest of Agency, at which place he died last Sunday, at the age of seventy-one years.
Pleasant Yates was born near Danville, Kentucky on the 22d of February, 1806, and removed at an early day with his father, Jesse Yates, to Clay county in this state, and from thence, as we have stated, came in 1837, to this county. He cut his way through the heavy timber to his new home, and has toiled there since, rearing a large family of then children, six sons and four daughters, who with their mother, now survive him,. He was eminently a man of domestic habits, and although not widely known beyond the limits of his county; was beloved and respected by all who came in contact with him., and his loss will be felt in the community in which he lived. The remains were interred at the cemetery.
Note: I changed the birthday as I believe it is incorrect in his obit.
Also while Pleasant was in Clay County, Mo. I found records that he had a child with a girl last name of Estes and her father sued him for back wages. Her father said she couldn't do the work for him because of her being pregnant. Pleasant is listed in the 1830 census with a child and a young woman. There are no marriage records of this.
Page 4
Another Pioneer Gone to his Rest
One by one the old settlers of the Platte Purchase are gathered to their fathers and the early pioneers are fast becoming extinct.
We are now called upon to chronicle the demise of Mr. Pleasant Yates, who forty years ago settled in this county upon a farm purchased by him about five miles southwest of Agency, at which place he died last Sunday, at the age of seventy-one years.
Pleasant Yates was born near Danville, Kentucky on the 22d of February, 1806, and removed at an early day with his father, Jesse Yates, to Clay county in this state, and from thence, as we have stated, came in 1837, to this county. He cut his way through the heavy timber to his new home, and has toiled there since, rearing a large family of then children, six sons and four daughters, who with their mother, now survive him,. He was eminently a man of domestic habits, and although not widely known beyond the limits of his county; was beloved and respected by all who came in contact with him., and his loss will be felt in the community in which he lived. The remains were interred at the cemetery.
Note: I changed the birthday as I believe it is incorrect in his obit.
Also while Pleasant was in Clay County, Mo. I found records that he had a child with a girl last name of Estes and her father sued him for back wages. Her father said she couldn't do the work for him because of her being pregnant. Pleasant is listed in the 1830 census with a child and a young woman. There are no marriage records of this.
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Aged 71 yrs, 4 mo, 21 days
Family Members
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Elizabeth Yates Randall
1832–1903
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Dovey Yates McCain
1833–1855
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Elijah McCrary Yates
1838–1910
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Nancy Yates Haymore
1840–1921
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Perneta Yates
1841–1842
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George Washington Yates
1842–1905
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Pernecy Jane Yates McCauley
1846–1900
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Henry R Yates
1847–1900
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Ellen Yates Crumply
1849–1933
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David Yates
1851–1879
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Infant Yates
1857–1857
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Pleasey Yates
1860–1878
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