YAGER, John T.

DEATH OF JOHN T. YAGER.

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Prominent Citizen of This County Dies
While Visiting in Kentucky.

The announcement Monday morning that John T. Yager had died was received with universal sorrow by the citizens of Franklin. Mr. Yager was spending the winter, as has been his custom many years, with friends at Prospect, Ky., having gone there in company with his wife early in De­cember. It will be remembered that early last fall he had a serious attack of pneumonia which almost proved fatal. On Thursday, Jan. 10, he took a severe cold which at once took the form of pneumonia, resulting in death at 1:30 Monday morning. On Sunday his son, S. C. Yager, received a telegram an­nouncing the dangerous illness of his father, and took the first train in response to the telegram. He arrived at Prospect three hours before his father’s death. The latter, however, had become unconscious some time before his son’s arrival and continued so until his death.

The remains were brought to this city Tuesday morning where they were met by the Masonic lodge, and conveyed to the home of S. C. Yager on Martin St. The funeral occurred at 10 o’clock, Wednesday morning at the Christian church in charge of the Masonic order. The funeral discourse was preached by Elder Amzi Atwater, Prof. C. H. Hall assisting in the service.

Mr. Yager was one of the most highly esteemed citizens of the county. He was born in Oldham county, Ky., July 29, 1829, being the son of Willis and Nancy (Overstreet) Yager. In the fall of 1835, a few months after his father’s death, he came with his mother to this county settling in what is now Needham township, on eighty acres which was purchased by his mother. They remained in the county 14 years and then returned to Kentucky where on Sept. 25, 1851 he was married to Jemima Clore, daughter of John and Matilda Clore. In 1852 Mr. Yager came back to Indiana where he subsequently became the owner of 165 acres of land, his late home in Needham township. His residence in Johnson county covers a period of nearly sixty years, two years of which, 1849-51, were passed in Ken­tucky. The farm on which he lived, and which he owned until his death, is one of the best improved farms in the county. Besides the widow, he leaves an only son, S. C. Yager, for many years the enterprising proprietor of the Lively Corner, book and stationery store. Socially Mr. Yager had but few equals. In business he was punctual in all details, strictly honest and successful in all his undertakings.

Link to John T. Yager’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry