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A band of thirty five Indians ambushed Captain York and his son-in-law James Madison Bell. They were killed and John's son James York was wounded. The bodies of Captain York and James Madison Bell were buried in a single hand-made oak coffin in the York Cemetery about eight miles east of Yorktown.
Spouse: Lucretia Cain, 1804-1851
https://www.sonsofdewittcolony.org/yorkjohn.htm
A band of thirty five Indians ambushed Captain York and his son-in-law James Madison Bell. They were killed and John's son James York was wounded. The bodies of Captain York and James Madison Bell were buried in a single hand-made oak coffin in the York Cemetery about eight miles east of Yorktown.
Spouse: Lucretia Cain, 1804-1851
https://www.sonsofdewittcolony.org/yorkjohn.htm
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