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Submitted: 11/1/08 • Approved: 9/18/12 • Last Updated: 9/21/12 • R90940-G0-S3
Young Henry Yearry
Husband of Nancy Bons Lackey Yearry, Francis Lucinda "Fanny" Yearry, Irena "Rena" Ross Watts, & Ann Moody.
Son of Henry & Elizabeth Hively Yearry
June 24, 1849--March 3, 1923
The grave of Young Henry Yearry is one of seven Yearry family graves that is covered with a concrete slab. All of the graves were marked with marble tablet type gravestones, and the death dates ranged from 1887 to 1923. Sometime in the late 1980’s, Mrs. Mae Woodcock Hamlet, a descendant of the Yearry family, worried that someone would dig into the graves. As a result, she arranged to have truckloads of concrete poured into a patio like concrete slab over the graves. The tops of the gravestones protrude from the concrete, but the inscriptions are below the concrete and obscured from view. Mrs. Vera (Lane) Reeves had made a survey of the Galatia Cemetery in 1986, and the data from her survey is what is recorded here.
(No obituary has been located for Young Henry Yearry. This obituary was constructed from information from genealogical research by Mary Lee Lackey Nelson and Emmit Dolan Acklin.)
Young Henry Yearry, 74, died Saturday, September 1, 1923, at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Woodcock.
He was born in Tennessee on June 24, 1849, to Henry and Elizabeth Hively Yearry. He first married Nancy Lackey and they were the parents of eight children. She died September 1, 1887. On March 1, 1888, he married Frances 'Fanny' Lackey and thery had one child. Fanny Yearry died November 1, 1901. He married Irean 'Rena' Ross Watts on June 24, 1904. Then later in life he married Ann Moody.
Mr. Yearry is survived by one daughter, Betty Woodcock of the home and one son, George Yearry of Newport.
He was preceded in death by one son, John Richard Yearry; and six daughters, Sarah Yearry, Mary Elvira Yearry, Lucinda Yearry, Louvina Jane Yearry, Manerva Yearry and Frances Evey Yearry.
Funeral services were conducted at the Galatia Church with burial in the Galatia Cemetery.
(From the files of Max Parnell.)
Contributed on 11/1/08 by maxparnell
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