The Yeoman Family

From OHIO FAMILY BIBLES

This Bible was found in an old trunk in upper part of an old log cabin abandoned on the Garringer farm used for a hog shed near Farmland, Indiana. Gerringer family near Jamestown, Ohio, made a copy, and records now in possession Miss Charlene Mark, Washington C.H., O. [this book was printed before 1950. This person may no longer be alive.]

BIRTHS

David Garringer, Sr. was born October 12, 1772
Elizabeth Smith Garringer was born 1771
John Garringer was born August 14, 1796
Alexander Garringer was born February 25, 1800
David Garringer, Jr. was born October 25, 1803
Elizabeth Garringer was born February 17, 1806
Mary Garringer was born January 27, 1810
Isaac Garringer was born March 7, 1812

Aquilla Jones was born June 29, 1798
Elias Brakefield was born August 31, 1806

MARRIAGES

John Garringer married Elizabeth Johnson, May 27, 1823 by Robert Waddle, Justice of Peace
Alexander Garringer married Elizabeth Boots
David Garringer, Jr. married Cyrene Yeoman, September 20, 1825 by Samuel Yeoman, J.P.
Mary Garringer married Elias Brakefield, July 1, 1830, by Stephen Yeoman, J.P.
Elizabeth Garringer married Aquilla Jones, August 14, 1831

DEATHS

David Garringer, Sr. died November 11, 1865, aged 93 years 29 days, buried Cochran's Cemetery, near New Martinsburg, Ohio. "Crippled Davy" "Mark" the perfect man and behold the upright for the end ofthat man is peace."
Elizabeth (Betsey) Smith Garringer died September 1848, in the 78th year of her age, buried in family burial ground near Farmland, Indiana
Elizabeth Garringer Jones died March 20, 1848
David Garringer died September 17, 1869
Isaac Garringer died January 16, 1870
Mary Garringer Brakefield died January 27, 1886

"John and Alexander went to Indiana". "John was first Justice of the Peace in Green Township, Randolph County, Indiana, in 1838, he moved there April 13, 1833"

Sources:

• L. Edwin Hoppes