Notes on a phone conversation 10/21/93 with James Lafayette Yeager's granddaughter Minnie Ruth Quinn Lucas: He was called by a shortening of his middle name Lafayette, pronounced 'Lafette', and shortened to Fette or Fate Yeager. He is the son of Newton Jasper and Lucinda Tedders Yeager. While living in Bibb County, AL, as a young man he went to Lauderdale County, Miss. to visit his uncle Daniel Wayne Yeager's family. After he went back home to Alabama, his uncle Daniel's eldest child Marietta, called Etta, went to visit her kinfolks in Bibb County, where she was with him daily, and they fell in love. They married when she was 20 and he 18 and she moved to Bibb County. They were quite well off, his people being "land rich." They had 3 children, but Lafette died of typhoid fever at the age of 25. When the fever hit the area, it caused so many young Yeager men to become ill that it came to be called "Yeager Fever." He is buried near his grandparents Lewis and Anna Cammack Yeager in the little burial area next to his father Newton J. Yeager's house, but the stone marking his grave, which was just a rock with information scratched on it by hand, is missing. However, his sister Sarah Ann Elizabeth Yeager Caddell had a daughter Troy Lou Caddell who lived in that house most of her life, and Miss Troy Caddell supplied the names of those interred there to Howard McCord, who published them in his book "Baptists of Bibb," page 565.
Notes on a phone conversation 10/21/93 with James Lafayette Yeager's granddaughter Minnie Ruth Quinn Lucas: He was called by a shortening of his middle name Lafayette, pronounced 'Lafette', and shortened to Fette or Fate Yeager. He is the son of Newton Jasper and Lucinda Tedders Yeager. While living in Bibb County, AL, as a young man he went to Lauderdale County, Miss. to visit his uncle Daniel Wayne Yeager's family. After he went back home to Alabama, his uncle Daniel's eldest child Marietta, called Etta, went to visit her kinfolks in Bibb County, where she was with him daily, and they fell in love. They married when she was 20 and he 18 and she moved to Bibb County. They were quite well off, his people being "land rich." They had 3 children, but Lafette died of typhoid fever at the age of 25. When the fever hit the area, it caused so many young Yeager men to become ill that it came to be called "Yeager Fever." He is buried near his grandparents Lewis and Anna Cammack Yeager in the little burial area next to his father Newton J. Yeager's house, but the stone marking his grave, which was just a rock with information scratched on it by hand, is missing. However, his sister Sarah Ann Elizabeth Yeager Caddell had a daughter Troy Lou Caddell who lived in that house most of her life, and Miss Troy Caddell supplied the names of those interred there to Howard McCord, who published them in his book "Baptists of Bibb," page 565.
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