Michael Yates

Birth Date

1812-02-09

Death Date

1874-06-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Yates. Father of James H. Yates, Dorothy Yates, Mary A. Yates, America Yates, Henry T. Yates, Ann E. Yates, and Gertrude Yates. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Employed Iredel Bacon as a farm laborer in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 63A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 693.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 637.
"Michael Yates (1812-1874)," Find A Grave, Memorial #38584429, accessed October 27, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38584429.

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