A history of the Yoakum, Yocom, Yocum, Families. H. C. Smith, M

1855: author of A History of Texas, 1685-1845, 2 volumes.

29 Nov 1856: died Houston, Texas, Capital Hotel of pneumonia.

Martha Yoakum; Emily Yoakum; Henderson Yoakum

Henderson wrote a book on Yoakums.

Handbook of Texas Vol 2 p945: Henderson was a friend of Sam Houston. Yoakum County, Texas, created in 1876, was named for him.

Notes by P. G. Fulkerson: “It is my impression that Henderson King Yoakum was named for Richard Henderson who owned these lands and his friend King who owned another large grant here.”

Henderson Grant: “By a private act of the April 1783 session of the North Carolina Legislature, two hundred thousand acres of land were granted to Richard Henderson and others to be laid out in one survey and within the following boundary: beginning at the old Indian town in Powell's Valley [about two miles northeast of Yoakum's Station] and running down Powell's River, not less than four miles in width on one or both sides thereof to the junction of Powell's River and Clinch River, then down Clinch River on one or both sides, not less than twelve miles in length for the said complement of 200,000 acres. The act specifies how this land shall be divided between Henderson and his eight associates. The consideration of this grant was the expense, risk, and trouble of the grantees in making a purchase of lands from the Cherokees in the year 1774-75 and to extinguish their title to the lands so purchasesd.” Historical accounts do not mention a Yoakum was one of the eight associates.
Elizabeth Yoakum (daughter of Henderson King and Eveline (Cannon) Yoakum)

1832: born Murphreesboro, Tennessee.

no date: married D. G. Campbell.

no date: died; buried Los Angeles, California.

no date: married W. T. Robinson.

Lived Robinson Way, Huntsville, Texas. Worked with Gibbs, Robinson Law Firm.
Annie Yoakum (daughter of Henderson King and Eveline (Cannon) Yoakum)

1871: died unmarried.

Lived Springfield, Texas.

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25 Dec 1832: married M. L. Pippin.

no date: son born.

Lived at San Marcos, Texas.

no date: son Thomas born.

Thomas Yoakum

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no date: married Fannie Daily.

1912: died San Marcos, Texas.
George Yoakum (son of Henderson King and Eveline (Cannon) Yoakum)

no date: served in Company 4, 5th Texas Regiment, C.S.A.

no date: died in hospital at Richmond, Virginia.

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2 Aug 1812: born Tennessee.

no date: married Dr. Ben Bayless. He m/2 Harriet Humphrey and had one child, Letitia Bayless.

17 Sept 1854: died of cholera.

Marie Louise and Ben had no children.

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6 Oct 1814: born Yoakum's Station, Claiborne County, Tennessee.

ca 1839: married Alabama, Mary Elizabeth Tunstill.

28 July 1840: son William Tunstill born.

17 Oct 1841: daughter Mary Elizabeth born.

8 Apr 1843: son Wyndam born.

28 Mar 1845: son Iodine born.

20 Apr 1846: married Athens, Georgia, Sophia P. Conger (1814 New Jersey-_______).

1846: son Franklin Abijah born.

28 July 1848: daughter Lavinia A. born.

6 Sept 1850: son Stephen T. born.

18 Dec 1851: son George W. born.

26 Sept 1853: son Hedges Conger born.

no date: son David M. born.

1860: worked as a carpenter in Easton, Kansas.

20 July 1869: died.

Washington Campbell was an abolitionist and was estranged from the Texas relatives, who were Confederates.

David M. Yoakum

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William Tunstill Yoakum (son of Washington Campbell and Mary E. (Tunstill) Yoakum)

28 July 1840: born Alabama.

1860: census: Easton, Leavenworth County, Kansas; William was a farmer.

25 Aug 1863: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, Caroline “Carrie” P. McBride.

25 July 1864: son Samuel T. born.

1868: daughter Lillie B. born.

19 June 1869: son Robert B. born.

1874: daughter Elizabeth born.

10 Oct 1875: son Walter C. born.

no date: daughter Mabel born.

no date: daughter Helen Josephine born.

Mabel Yoakum

25 July 1864: born.

5 Aug 1885: married Jackson County, Missouri, Fannie Johnson.

Lillie B. Yoakum (daughter of William Tunstill and Carrie P. (McBride) Yoakum)

1868: born.

24 Dec 1889: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, George E. Williams (1865-_______).

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19 June 1869: born Leavenworth County, Kansas.

28 Oct 1909: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, Alice M. Forrester (1879-_______) daughter of P. E. and Mary Forrester.

no date: daughter Florence born; died age 6.

1910: daughter Ethel M. born.

11 Apr 1917: m/2 Nolan County, Texas, Lela Jenkins.

Florence Yoakum
Ethel M. Yoakum (daughter of Robert B. and Alice M. (Forrester) Yoakum)

1910: born.

19 Dec 1931: married Mojave County, Arizona, Samuel “Sam” McLeod (1907-_______) of Trent County, Texas.

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1874: born.

20 June 1905: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, William Knapp (1873-_______).

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10 Oct 1875: born.

29 June 1911: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, Wilma Pearl McCleary (1888-_______) daughter Miller B. and Clarissa F. (Mann) McCleary.

no date: daughter Ruth Vickery born.

no date: daughter Wilma Caroline born.

no date: daughter Clara Elizabeth born.

Ruth Vickery Yoakum; Clara Elizabeth Yoakum
Wilma Caroline Yoakum (daughter of Walter C. and Wilma Pearl (McCleary) Yoakum)

16 June 1939: married J. E. Lennox Black.

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Helen Josephine Yoakum (daughter of William Tunstill and Carrie P. (McBride) Yoakum)

Helen was a teacher; unmarried.

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Mary Elizabeth Yoakum (daughter of Washington Campbell and Mary E. (Tunstill) Yoakum)

17 Oct 1841: born Leavenworth County, Kansas.

10 Mar 18??: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, James S. Downs.

Possibly married _______ Singer.

8 Apr/Sept 1843: born Leavenworth County, Kansas.

Not in the 1860 census.

Could Wyndam and Iodine be the same person?

28 Mar 1845: born Leavenworth County, Kansas.

Not in the 1860 census.
Franklin Abijah Yoakum (son of Washington Campbell and Sophia P. (Conger) Yoakum)

1846: born Kansas.

19 Feb 1873: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, Alice Hunt.

16 Mar 1921: died.

28 July 1848: born Kansas.

11 Sept 1872: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, Thomas J. Stone (1842-_______).

Aug 1924: died.

6 Sept 1850: born.

14 Feb 1872: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, Mary Allen (1852-_______).

no date: daughter Sadie born.

no date: daughter Fannie born.

6 Nov 1936: died.

Sadie Yoakum; Fannie Yoakum
George W. Yoakum (son of Washington Campbell and Sophia P. (Conger) Yoakum)

18 Dec 1851: born.

1 Sept 1878: married Douglas County, Kansas, Laura Hunt (1856-_______).

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26 Sept 1853: born Georgia.

12 Feb 1878: married Leavenworth County, Kansas, Lydia Isabel Stone (1854-_______).

11 Jan 1879: son Clarence Stone born.

10 Oct 1887: son Earl born.
Clarence Stone Yoakum (son of Hedges Conger and Lydia Isabel (Stone) Yoakum)

11 Jan 1879: born Leavenworth County, Kansas.

29 July 1919: married Travis County, Texas, Louise Branch Story or Storey.

no date: daughter Margaret Isabel born.

Clarence was a psychologist and author. He was in Who's Who in 1932/33.

Margaret Isabel Yoakum

10 Oct 1887: born Basehor, Leavenworth County, Kansas.

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Emily A. Yoakum (daughter of George and Mary Ann (Maddy) Yoakum)

12 Oct/Dec 1816: born Tennessee.

no date: married Wertz Stephens (possibly Wesley).

no date: son B. T. Stephens born.

no date: son George W. Stephens born (of Gyp, Oklahoma).

24 Aug 1854: died of cholera; buried Madisonville Cemetery, Monroe County, Tennessee.

Reference: “Acklen's Tennessee Records.” Madisonville Cemetery.

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14 Nov 1819: born Yoakum's Station, Tennessee.

no date: married Fannie Holt.

no date: son William H. born.

1850: son Charles H. born.

no date: m/2 Narcissa C. Teague.

no date: son Finis E. born.

no date: daughter Caledonia B. born.

no date: son Robert D. born.

20 Aug 1859: son Benjamin Franklin born.

no date: daughter Lillian May born; died age 16.

ca 1856: was president and professor of ancient languages at Larissa College, Cherokee County, Texas.

1869: was a teacher at Tohuacana College, later Trinity University.

1891: died.

Lillian May Yoakum

?Dr. Franklin practiced in Limestone County, Texas? Handbook of Texas Vol 2 p945: Franklin was m/1 Mrs. Elizabeth Wright and m/2 Narcissus Teague Key. He was a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

no date: married _______ Bass, of Waco, Texas.

10 July 1859: born near Tohuacana, Limestone County, Texas.

no date: married Ollie _______.

1895-1897: member of Congress.

1900: moved to Los Angeles, California.

1904: returned to Texas.

1 Jan 1909: died of apoplexy Ft. Worth, Texas; buried Myrtle Cemetery, Ennis, Texas.

Charles was a lawyer and a member of the U.S. Congress.

no date: married Molly Hood, of Los Angeles, California.

no date: married J. L. Modrall or Modell, of Los Angeles, California.

Unmarried. Lived St. Louis, Missouri.

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Benjamin Franklin Yoakum (son of Franklin L. and Narcissa C. (Teague) Yoakum)

20 Aug 1859: born near Tohuacana, Limestone County, Texas.

no date: married Elizabeth “Bettie” (Bennett) Porter, daughter of W. A. Bennett, of San Antonio, Texas.

no date: daughter Katharine Bennett born.

no date: daughter Bessie Frank born.

28 Nov 1929: died Nasau County, New York.

Benjamin became a New York City railroad magnate.
Katharine Bennett Yoakum (daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth (Bennett) Yoakum)

no date: married _______ Fosdick (_______-30 June 1959).

no date: son Sheldon L. Fosdick born; real estate developer, developed Glendora, California, named for his daughter. Child:

1. Glendora Yoakum.

no date: married _______ Larkin.

Reference: Encylopedia of History, St. Louis, vol. 4 p2565.

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12 Mar 1822: born Tennessee.

no date: married Mary (Dillard) Elkins.

no date: son Matthew born (of Dallas, Texas).

1885: died Dallas, Texas.

Matthew Yoakum

19 Nov 1824: born.

28 May 1845: married Monroe County, Tennessee, George Montgomery Cuson.

no date: daughter Ada Aurelia Cuson born; married Philadelphia, Tennessee, Joseph H. Cozart. They moved to Waukomis, Oklahoma, after their children were born. Children:

1. Olive Cozart born 16 Dec 1872; married Oklahoma, John McQuigg

2. Julia Cozart born 10 Mar 1874; married Colorado, Earl Douglas.

3. Ethel Cozart born 29 Feb 1876; married Texas, J. M. Childress.

4. Ada Cozart born 20 Nov 1877; died 11 May 1878.

5. Hattie Glenn Cozart born 10 Nov 1880; married Will Gregg.

6. Hugh H. Cozart born 14 Jan 1883; married Verna Burford.

7. George Harvey Cozart born 4 June 1885; married Bessie McFarland.

no date: son George Oliver Cuson born (unmarried, lived East Tennessee).

no date: son John Franklin Cuson born; married Eliza Poesy.

24 Aug 1854: died of cholera.

9 Oct 1827: born Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee.

25 May 1848: married James Askew Wright (he m/2).

no date: daughter Mary E. Wright born; married George H. Halliday, of Atlanta, Georgia. Children:

1. Mabel Halliday; married John T. Moody.

2. Ethel Halliday; married Joseph C. Crankshaw.

3. George H. Halliday, Jr.; married Leola G. Houser.

19 Aug 1852: died Sweetwater, Tennessee; buried beside her parents in the church yard of the Methodist Church, Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee.

28 Jan 1830: born Tennessee.

no date: married James Lemons, of Madisonville, Tennessee.

2 Aug/Sept 1857: died Texas.

A Mary A. Yoakum married 12 Oct 1852, Monroe County, Tennessee, Joseph W. Lemons. igi

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1785/86: born Muddy Creek, Virginia.

no date: married Sallie Reynolds, of West Illinois.

no date: son George born Tennessee.

no date: moved to middle Tennessee.

Possibly “Feltz”

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Jesse Yoakum (?son of George and Margaret Rebecca (Van Bebber) Yoakum)

1787: born either in the section of Washington County, Virginia, which later became Lee County, Virginia, or in the present Claiborne County, Tennessee, as it is uncertain when his father abandoned Yoakum's Station in Virginia and moved to the site of his station in Tennessee.

no date: married Anna Berry (18 Jan 1779 Virginia-21 Sept 1850 Ray County, Missouri; buried Yoakum's Cemetery, near Taitsville, Ray County, Missouri), of Tennessee, daughter of ?Richard Berry.

ca 1809: son William born.

no date: son George born.

no date: son John born.

no date: son Moses born.

no date: daughter Catherine born.

ca 1819: son Matthew Berry born.

no date: child born.

no date: assessed $100 for 100 acres of land, Claiborne County, Tennessee, Bk 5.

1812: February term, Claiborne County, Tennessee: Jesse Yoakum was allowed a correction of his assessments.

1830: ?census Roane County, Tennessee. Jesse had four sons, each 20-30 years old.

1830: ?census Claiborne County, Tennessee: Jesse Yoakum, 1 male age 5-10 (1820-1825); 1 male age 10-15 (1815-1820); 1 male age 15-20 (1810-1815); 3 males age 20-30 (1800-1810); 1 male age 40-50 (1780-1790); 1 female age 10-15 (1815-1820); 1 female age 20-30 (1800-1810); 1 female age 50-60 (1770-1780).

1830: taxpayer in Claiborne County, Tennessee.

no date: moved to Missouri.

ca 1834: moved to Ray County, Missouri.

1840: census Ray County, Missouri, p306: Jesse Yoakum; 1 male age 15-20 (1820-1825); 1 male age 20-30 (1810-1820); 1 male age 50-60 (1780-1790); 1 female age 5-10 (1830-1835); 1 female age 20-30 (1810-1820); 1 female age 50-60 (1780-1790).

Aug 1850: census Ray County, Missouri, age 63, with his wife Anna, age 71.

1856: Deed Bk B-K p148 Ray County, Missouri, Isaac Yoakum, heirs of Jesse Sr., May 1854, Alvis and wife Elizabeth, William and wife Sarah, Jesse T. and wife Rebecca, James B. Kesterson and wife Catherine: 80A NE¼ NW¼ NE¼ both pieces S32 T54 R27.

no date: died Taitsville, Missouri; buried Yoakum's Cemetery near Taitsville, Missouri.

George Yoakum; John Yoakum; Moses Yoakum

David L. Ballew lists the children of Jesse and Anna as: Isaac, born 26 Oct 1810; Alvis, born 10 Jan 1813; Catherine, born 1819; William, born 1820; Jesse James or T., born 1821.

From an article from the Missouri Historical Review entitled “The Boone, Hays and Berry Families of Jackson County” by Virginia Hays Asbury and Albert N. Doerschek:

“In 1798, having been dispossessed of his Kentucky lands, and, on his wife's advice, declining Florida as a new home after a pilgrimage there revealed to his eye no game worthy of his rifle, Daniel Boone entered and applied for a grant of two thousand acres in Upper Louisiana and emigrated with many of his friends, including William and Boone Hays, Richard Berry, Jesse Yoacham, father of Berry Yoacham, Isaac Van Bebber, Isaac Fulkerson and others, with all their families and effects, to Charette, on the Missouri River, where he became a commandant of the Femme Osage district under Spain.” This indicates that Jesse's wife, Anna, was a daughter of Richard Berry.

David L. Ballew: Jesse Yoakum came into Ray County, Missouri, about 1834 with his family. He died there and is buried in Yoakum's Cemetery near Taitsville, Missouri. He is probably the first Yoakum into Missouri, especially Ray County.

1809: born Tennessee.

no date: married Elizabeth _______ (1813-_______).

no date: moved to Ray County, Missouri.

1819: born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

7 Jan 1841: married Ray County, Missouri, James B. Kesterson (1819 Virginia-_______).

Seven children.

ca 1820: born Callaway County, Missouri.

29 Sept 1842: married Jackson County, Missouri, Martha J. Moore (19 Sept 1826-_______). She m/2 12 Oct 1848.

1843: son Travis born; died 1862.

no date: son Tommy born; died 1862.

Travis Yoakum; Tommy Yoakum

Both of the sons served in the Confederate Army and both were killed in the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, which was fought on the 3rd and 4th of October 1862.

Reference: The Missouri Historical Review.

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Robert G. Yoakum (son of George and Margaret Rebecca (Van Bebber) Yoakum)

1789: born ?Muddy Creek, Lee County, Virginia.

1 Jan 1820: married Claiborne County, Tennessee, Parkey Berry of Tennessee. She m/2 28 June 1827 Thomas Davis. Thomas was a solder and a farmer. They lived around Tazewell, Lonesome Pine, and Lone Mountain. Children from Parkey's second marriage:

1. Isaac Davis born 1829.

2. Loueza Davis born 1833.

3. Elizabeth Davis born 1835.

4. Sophia Davis born 1836.

5. Parkey Davis born 1838.

6. Prior Davis born 1840.

7. Minery Davis.

8. Martha Davis born 1845.

9. James Davis born 1847.

1820: son Ewing B. born.

1824: son Robert G. born (after his father died).

1818: served on a jury, Claiborne County, Tennessee.

29 Jan 1824: died Powell's Valley, Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1820: born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

27 Mar 1845: married Claiborne County, Tennessee, Martha VanBebber (ca 1822 Tennessee-_______).

?1844: daughter Eliza J. born Tennessee.

1847: son James R. born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1848: son Winfield Scott born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1850: census Claiborne County, Tennessee, #1106; Ewing, age 30, born Tennessee; Martha, age 28, born Tennessee; Eliza J., age 4, born Tennessee; James R., age 3, born Tennessee; Winfield S., age 2, born Tennessee.

1850: daughter Letitia born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1852: son Isaac born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1854: daughter Sarah born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1856: daughter Parkey born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1859: son William G. born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

Eliza Yoakum; James R. Yoakum; Scott Yoakum; Letitia Yoakum; Isaac Yoakum; Sarah Yoakum; Parkey Yoakum; William G. Yoakum
Robert G. Yoakum (son of Robert G. and Parkey (Berry) Yoakum)

1824: born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

no date: married _______ _______.

1840: daughter Dorcas born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1866: son Ewing Franklin born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

no date: son Burnsides born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1869: son Grant born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1873: son Joseph Sherman born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1875: son James Randolph born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1877: daughter Emma born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

1879: child Mossy born Claiborne County, Tennessee.

Dorcas Yoakum; Ewing Franklin Yoakum; Burnsides Yoakum; Grant Yoakum; Joseph Sherman Yoakum; James Randolph Yoakum; Emma Yoakum; Mossy Yoakum

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Margaret “Peggy” Yoakum (daughter of George and Margaret Rebecca (Van Bebber) Yoakum)

ca 1791: born Muddy Creek, Virginia.

no date: married _______ Condra of Powell's Valley, Tennessee.

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13 Aug 1782: married Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, (West) Virginia, John Shewmaker.

no date: born Virginia.

22 July 1785: married Lewisburg, Greenbrier County (or Rockingham County), Virginia, Peter Van Bebber, son of Reverend Isaac Michael Van Bebber and Sarah Davis. Peter was in the scouts with George Yoakum, Sr. from 2 May-8 June 1783, both days inclusive.

Sarah “Yolkecome”

The Yocum book by Smith says Phillip Powell Yokem emigrated from Germany, via Holland, in 1720.