Typed by: Kay Ward

YATES, John William

Surnames: YATESSIPES, BARBEE, GOODWIN, FRAZIER, DEWITT, HANCOCK, GARRETT, BARNES, HENDERSON, TURNER, JONES, GEORGE

John William Yates, b ca 1860 in Texas, was a resident of Marlin, Texas in 1920 when his mother died-was a son of William B. and Elizabeth (Sipes) Yates, who came to Texas by 1860, and to Falls County, Texas after the Civil War.
In 1882, John William Yates was married to Lela Frances Barbee, b 1866 in Arkansas, d 1884 when or soon after the birth of her child:

William Edward Yates, b January 27, 1884 near Hog Island, Falls County, Texas, d September 11, 1941 and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin, Falls County, Texas. William was reared by his maternal grandmother, Frances Elizabeth (Goodwin) Barbee. William Edward Yates was married August 28, 1904 in Falls County, Texas to Frances Frazier (called "Fannie"), b June 18 1885, d January 9, 1972 and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin-a daughter of Alexander and Alta Elzera (DeWitt) Frazier, natives of Pennsylvania and Clarke County, Alabama, respectively, who were settlers in Falls County after the Civil War. William Edward and Fannie were the parents of three children:

Alta Lela Yates (called "Daughty"), b February 10, 1906 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas-married January 15, 1926 to Earl Conrad Hancock, b March 29, 1904 at Stranger, Falls County, Texas-a son of Holman Kendal and Gertrude Eliza (Garrett) Hancock;

Lucille Yates, b August 23, 1908 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, d January 1978 in Houston, Harris County, Texas-married Robert Barnes, and had Robert Barnes, Jr., Gary Barnes,and Linda (Barnes) Outlaw-and moved to Port Arthur, Texas; and

Leslie Yates, b June 12, 1912 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, d December 2, 1980 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, who was a teacher-married Dorothy Henderson, of Fort Worth, and had Charles Yates, M.D., John Yates-a lawyer, and Shirley Yates-who married Wesley Turner, of Fort Worth.

John William Yates was married second to Maud Jones, of Reagan, Falls County, Texas, and they were the parents of Mary (Yates) George, of Oklahoma; and Doris Yates, of Waco, Texas.

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these Falls County Families to this Web page
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission,
page 505-506, column 2 and column 1