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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of
Sangamon County, Illinois
Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships,
Educational,
Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits
of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of
Representative Citizens.
HISTORY OF ILLINOIS
Embracing Accounts of the Pre-Historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and
Political and Military History
- ILLUSTRATED -
Publ. Chicago:
Interstate Publishing Company
1881.
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GEORGE H. YOAKUM was born
on a farm three miles northwest of Salisbury in what is now
Menard county, then Sangamon county. June 27, 1829,
when four years of age, he moved on the farm where he now
resides. His parents were William Yoakum,
born in Virginia, a farmer who died April, 1880, and
Sallie (Simmons) Yoakum, born in North Carolina.
She was the mother of ten children, seven living, viz.
Mrs. Mary A. Penny, George H. Yoakum, Martha Duncan, James
C. Yoakum, Milton B., Isaac R. and Jesse J. Yoakum;
she died on Dec. 5, 1865. Mr. George Yoakum
owns a tine farm of one hundred and five acres in section
thirty, seventy acres of which is under good cultivation and
valued at $40 an acre. He is a Republican.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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