JOHN DARIUS YEOMAN 1859-1952

YEOMAN, AXTELL, JONES, MOORE, PIERCE, HILTON, PHILLIPS, FELL

Posted By: Dana Roquet (email)
Date: 10/20/2010 at 13:53:10

John Darius Yeoman
Fremont Gazette
Thursday, Dec. 25, 1952

J.D. Yeoman, Pioneer
Resident Died Sat.

Funeral services were held this afternoon (Tuesday) at the Fremont Funeral Chapel, for J.D. Yeoman, one of the pioneer residents of Fremont. He would have been 94 years old next March. He passed away at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20 at the Hillcrest Nursing Home in Oskaloosa, where he had been a patient for about a month. Rev. Anna Spann was in charge of the services, and burial was in Cedar township cemetery.

The son of Richard and Fannie Axtell Yeoman, he was born at Elyria, Ohio Mar. 30, 1859. He came to Iowa with his parents in 1866, and had lived on the same farm two and one-half miles north of Fremont ever since that time. Mr. Yeoman also did some carpentering in addition to his farming.

He was married to Mary J. Jones, who preceded him in death in 1938.

Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Nina Moore of Bethel, Kans., Mrs. Jessie Pierce of Seattle, Wash, Mrs. Fannie J. Hilton of Oskaloosa, Mrs. Ruth Phillips of Arbela, Mo., and Mrs. Robert (Blanche) Fell of Fremont; three sons, Charles of Rose Hill and Reinhold of Leavenworth, Kans. And Floyd of Bellingham, Wash. Also 26 grandchildren, and 23 great grandchildren.