Yates Cemetery Inscriptions

Yates Cemetery Inscriptions, located in Symmes Township, Section 17 on County Road in Lawrence County, Ohio

Read by Stephen H. Martin in January 2002

Directions: Upon a hill, about 200 yds behind Jewel May’s house. The cemetery is abandoned, with many unmarked graves noted by sunken areas.

*Thomas J. Yates, born 1855 and died 1927 [obituary below]

Grover, son of J. W. & M. A. Yates 1887-1889 [Foot stone G.L.Y.]

Benjamin Yates was born on 2 Jan 1829 and died on 8 Aug 1903

**Elizabeth (nee Cade), his wife, was born on 24 April 1838 [no death date on tombstone]
[obituary below]

Rebecca Jan, daughter of B. & E. Yates, 1 May 1898 – 17 Feb. 1880 aged 12 yr 9ms 17da

Harriet Cade, 15 June 1812 – 2 July 1876, aged 64 yr and 17da
[Foot stone H. C.]

John F., son of J. & P. O’Neal, died 28 Sept. 1861, aged 1 yr
[Foot stone J. F.]

Obadia Pruet died 22 Nov. 1845

*Ironton Tribune obit- Thomas J. Yates Dropped Dead – Stricken While Working on Farm at Buffalo
Friday, 1 April 1927, page 2.

Thomas J. Yates of Buffalo Creek, Symmes township, dropped dead at four o’clock Thursday afternoon while working on his farm with Thurman Yates, his nephew. He fell over while engaged in farm duties and died when his nephew bent over him.

Mr. Yates was 72 years old and well-known in the Buffalo Creek neighborhood, having developed a farm there recently.

Funeral services will be held at home Sunday morning at 10:30 with Rev. Frye of Waterloo in charge. Interment will be made in the family cemetery under the direction of Undertaker Phillips.

**Wednesday, March 3, 1920, Morning Irontonian page one. An aged Woman Died Tuesday From Burns Due to Smoking a Pipe in Bed.

Mrs. Elizabeth Yates, one of the well-known residents of Symmes township, died at her home from the effects of burns received Sunday. Mrs. Yates had been ill for some time, and while smoking her pipe, the bedclothes caught fire, burning her fatally before help could be summoned. Mrs. Yates was 83 years of age and was the mother of Jacob Yates, who died yesterday morning in the Roosevelt Hospital from wounds inflicted in the revolver duel Saturday evening with Charles Richendollar.

The funeral services will be conducted this afternoon at 2 o’clock from home, with burial in the Yates cemetery under the direction of Phillips of Waterloo.