Corporel in Captain William Sitton's & and Colonel William Metcalf's Infantry Company/1st. Regiment West Tennessee militia/war of 1812.
Milita records indicate Lewis,along with his brothers Abner & Reuben Yager/Yeager enlisted on November 13,1814 at Fayetteville, Tenn.
Lewis was the Son of John and Ann (Render) Yagger
South Carolina "Deeds" Archives show John Yagger/Yeager owning property on "Wolf Creek" in South Carolina in the 1790's.
Married: Anna Carmack on November 26, 1822 in Bibb County, Alabama by Justice of the Peace: J.Hunt.
The land where the family burial site exist today is on the land originally owned by LEWIS YEAGER.
∼For more information on Lewis Yager, his parents and siblings, please go to my contributor profile page.
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Lewis Yager (1794-1853), whose surname began to be spelled Yeager during his lifetime, is the son of John Yager (1750-1816), DAR Patriot A209347; son of Michael Yager (1728-1794), DAR Patriot A129516; son of Adam Yager (1708-1794), DAR Patriot A129501; son of Nicholas Yager (born 1678). The surname was originally spelled Jager with an umlaut over the a, then anglicized to Yager in the colony of Virginia, then changed to Yeager by Lewis and most of his siblings.
Nicholas and his son Adam were born in Germany. Nicholas brought his wife Anna Maria Sieber Yager, son Adam and daughter Mary into the English colony of Virginia in 1717 as part of a group of immigrants now known as the Second Germanna Colony. Adam's firstborn in America was Michael, who lived in what is now Madison County, Virginia, all his life.
Michael was the first of this line to be born in America. Michael's firstborn was John born 25 November 1750 -- not to be confused with a man widely known as "John Yager, Sr., of the piney woods" born about 1730. John married Ann (nicknamed "Nancy") Render, daughter of English Quaker Lewis Render in 1776. John's and Nancy's first 8 children (including Abijah buried in Bethel Cemetery, Bibb Co., AL) were born in what was then Culpeper County, Virginia, before John relocated his family to the northwest corner of South Carolina in 1790.
Settling in Laurens County, SC, John and Nancy had 4 more children, including Lewis. John, his wife, children and grandchildren began moving out of S.C. in the early 1810s. Several went south into Georgia, but most headed westward into Lincoln County, Tennessee, where John died after 6 May 1816.
Lewis and his brothers Reuben and Abner fought in the Battle of New Orleans. My great-uncle John Alexander Yeager stated in a 1939 letter to the Tennessee State Archives that Lewis (his grandfather) was a sharpshooter and bodyguard to Andrew Jackson. Lewis returned to Lincoln County, Tennessee, where he lived next door to his uncle Augustine Yager until after 1820. He then moved south to join other family members and settled permanently in Bibb County, Alabama, where he married Anna Cammack, daughter of John Cammack II, on 26 November 1822.
Lewis and Anna had 13 children, 12 of whom survived infancy: Constantine, Israel Miles, Martha Ann, Araminta, Virgil Peck, Newton Jasper, Daniel Wayne, Narcissa, Chapley Harvey, Casseline, Dixon Harry Lewis, and Mary. Three died in the Civil War: Virgil Peck (called Peck), Chapley Harvey (called Harvey), and Dixon Harry Lewis (called Harry-Lewis); and one, my ggf Daniel Wayne (called Dan'l), was wounded at the Battle of Corinth on 4 Oct 1862.
The Yeager Family graveyard is about 1/4 mile from the place where Lewis and Anna lived, according to Lewis's great-granddaughter Jessie Caddell Perdue. Lewis's son Newton Jasper Yeager inherited it and passed it on to his daughter Sarah Ann Elizabeth "Betty" Yeager Caddell. It is Newton's house, rebuilt after it burned, not Lewis's, that occupies the land next to the graveyard. In 1960 the Caddells' daughter Troy Lou (Jessie's sister), who lived in the house most of her life, recorded the lineage of Newton Jasper back through Lewis to John and Nancy Render Yager and shared that chart with others. Mrs. Perdue (pictured here) told me it was her father Ben Caddell who drew the diagram of graves with data on those buried in the Yeager Family Graveyard, when she escorted me through the graveyard in May 1994. Later I was given a copy of Mr. Caddell's diagram by Mary Frazier Norris Martinez.
So far, to my knowledge, Find-a-Grave memorials have been established for 3 of the 12 children of John Yager b1750 (son of Michael b1728, son of Adam b1708, son of Nicholas b1678): Reuben, #67663471; Abijah, #73840152; and this one for Lewis.
- Betty (EYJ)
Milita records indicate Lewis,along with his brothers Abner & Reuben Yager/Yeager enlisted on November 13,1814 at Fayetteville, Tenn.
Lewis was the Son of John and Ann (Render) Yagger
South Carolina "Deeds" Archives show John Yagger/Yeager owning property on "Wolf Creek" in South Carolina in the 1790's.
Married: Anna Carmack on November 26, 1822 in Bibb County, Alabama by Justice of the Peace: J.Hunt.
The land where the family burial site exist today is on the land originally owned by LEWIS YEAGER.
∼For more information on Lewis Yager, his parents and siblings, please go to my contributor profile page.
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Lewis Yager (1794-1853), whose surname began to be spelled Yeager during his lifetime, is the son of John Yager (1750-1816), DAR Patriot A209347; son of Michael Yager (1728-1794), DAR Patriot A129516; son of Adam Yager (1708-1794), DAR Patriot A129501; son of Nicholas Yager (born 1678). The surname was originally spelled Jager with an umlaut over the a, then anglicized to Yager in the colony of Virginia, then changed to Yeager by Lewis and most of his siblings.
Nicholas and his son Adam were born in Germany. Nicholas brought his wife Anna Maria Sieber Yager, son Adam and daughter Mary into the English colony of Virginia in 1717 as part of a group of immigrants now known as the Second Germanna Colony. Adam's firstborn in America was Michael, who lived in what is now Madison County, Virginia, all his life.
Michael was the first of this line to be born in America. Michael's firstborn was John born 25 November 1750 -- not to be confused with a man widely known as "John Yager, Sr., of the piney woods" born about 1730. John married Ann (nicknamed "Nancy") Render, daughter of English Quaker Lewis Render in 1776. John's and Nancy's first 8 children (including Abijah buried in Bethel Cemetery, Bibb Co., AL) were born in what was then Culpeper County, Virginia, before John relocated his family to the northwest corner of South Carolina in 1790.
Settling in Laurens County, SC, John and Nancy had 4 more children, including Lewis. John, his wife, children and grandchildren began moving out of S.C. in the early 1810s. Several went south into Georgia, but most headed westward into Lincoln County, Tennessee, where John died after 6 May 1816.
Lewis and his brothers Reuben and Abner fought in the Battle of New Orleans. My great-uncle John Alexander Yeager stated in a 1939 letter to the Tennessee State Archives that Lewis (his grandfather) was a sharpshooter and bodyguard to Andrew Jackson. Lewis returned to Lincoln County, Tennessee, where he lived next door to his uncle Augustine Yager until after 1820. He then moved south to join other family members and settled permanently in Bibb County, Alabama, where he married Anna Cammack, daughter of John Cammack II, on 26 November 1822.
Lewis and Anna had 13 children, 12 of whom survived infancy: Constantine, Israel Miles, Martha Ann, Araminta, Virgil Peck, Newton Jasper, Daniel Wayne, Narcissa, Chapley Harvey, Casseline, Dixon Harry Lewis, and Mary. Three died in the Civil War: Virgil Peck (called Peck), Chapley Harvey (called Harvey), and Dixon Harry Lewis (called Harry-Lewis); and one, my ggf Daniel Wayne (called Dan'l), was wounded at the Battle of Corinth on 4 Oct 1862.
The Yeager Family graveyard is about 1/4 mile from the place where Lewis and Anna lived, according to Lewis's great-granddaughter Jessie Caddell Perdue. Lewis's son Newton Jasper Yeager inherited it and passed it on to his daughter Sarah Ann Elizabeth "Betty" Yeager Caddell. It is Newton's house, rebuilt after it burned, not Lewis's, that occupies the land next to the graveyard. In 1960 the Caddells' daughter Troy Lou (Jessie's sister), who lived in the house most of her life, recorded the lineage of Newton Jasper back through Lewis to John and Nancy Render Yager and shared that chart with others. Mrs. Perdue (pictured here) told me it was her father Ben Caddell who drew the diagram of graves with data on those buried in the Yeager Family Graveyard, when she escorted me through the graveyard in May 1994. Later I was given a copy of Mr. Caddell's diagram by Mary Frazier Norris Martinez.
So far, to my knowledge, Find-a-Grave memorials have been established for 3 of the 12 children of John Yager b1750 (son of Michael b1728, son of Adam b1708, son of Nicholas b1678): Reuben, #67663471; Abijah, #73840152; and this one for Lewis.
- Betty (EYJ)
Corporel in Captain William Sitton's & and Colonel William Metcalf's Infantry Company/1st. Regiment West Tennessee militia/war of 1812.
Milita records indicate Lewis,along with his brothers Abner & Reuben Yager/Yeager enlisted on November 13,1814 at Fayetteville, Tenn.
Lewis was the Son of John and Ann (Render) Yagger
South Carolina "Deeds" Archives show John Yagger/Yeager owning property on "Wolf Creek" in South Carolina in the 1790's.
Married: Anna Carmack on November 26, 1822 in Bibb County, Alabama by Justice of the Peace: J.Hunt.
The land where the family burial site exist today is on the land originally owned by LEWIS YEAGER.
∼For more information on Lewis Yager, his parents and siblings, please go to my contributor profile page.
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Lewis Yager (1794-1853), whose surname began to be spelled Yeager during his lifetime, is the son of John Yager (1750-1816), DAR Patriot A209347; son of Michael Yager (1728-1794), DAR Patriot A129516; son of Adam Yager (1708-1794), DAR Patriot A129501; son of Nicholas Yager (born 1678). The surname was originally spelled Jager with an umlaut over the a, then anglicized to Yager in the colony of Virginia, then changed to Yeager by Lewis and most of his siblings.
Nicholas and his son Adam were born in Germany. Nicholas brought his wife Anna Maria Sieber Yager, son Adam and daughter Mary into the English colony of Virginia in 1717 as part of a group of immigrants now known as the Second Germanna Colony. Adam's firstborn in America was Michael, who lived in what is now Madison County, Virginia, all his life.
Michael was the first of this line to be born in America. Michael's firstborn was John born 25 November 1750 -- not to be confused with a man widely known as "John Yager, Sr., of the piney woods" born about 1730. John married Ann (nicknamed "Nancy") Render, daughter of English Quaker Lewis Render in 1776. John's and Nancy's first 8 children (including Abijah buried in Bethel Cemetery, Bibb Co., AL) were born in what was then Culpeper County, Virginia, before John relocated his family to the northwest corner of South Carolina in 1790.
Settling in Laurens County, SC, John and Nancy had 4 more children, including Lewis. John, his wife, children and grandchildren began moving out of S.C. in the early 1810s. Several went south into Georgia, but most headed westward into Lincoln County, Tennessee, where John died after 6 May 1816.
Lewis and his brothers Reuben and Abner fought in the Battle of New Orleans. My great-uncle John Alexander Yeager stated in a 1939 letter to the Tennessee State Archives that Lewis (his grandfather) was a sharpshooter and bodyguard to Andrew Jackson. Lewis returned to Lincoln County, Tennessee, where he lived next door to his uncle Augustine Yager until after 1820. He then moved south to join other family members and settled permanently in Bibb County, Alabama, where he married Anna Cammack, daughter of John Cammack II, on 26 November 1822.
Lewis and Anna had 13 children, 12 of whom survived infancy: Constantine, Israel Miles, Martha Ann, Araminta, Virgil Peck, Newton Jasper, Daniel Wayne, Narcissa, Chapley Harvey, Casseline, Dixon Harry Lewis, and Mary. Three died in the Civil War: Virgil Peck (called Peck), Chapley Harvey (called Harvey), and Dixon Harry Lewis (called Harry-Lewis); and one, my ggf Daniel Wayne (called Dan'l), was wounded at the Battle of Corinth on 4 Oct 1862.
The Yeager Family graveyard is about 1/4 mile from the place where Lewis and Anna lived, according to Lewis's great-granddaughter Jessie Caddell Perdue. Lewis's son Newton Jasper Yeager inherited it and passed it on to his daughter Sarah Ann Elizabeth "Betty" Yeager Caddell. It is Newton's house, rebuilt after it burned, not Lewis's, that occupies the land next to the graveyard. In 1960 the Caddells' daughter Troy Lou (Jessie's sister), who lived in the house most of her life, recorded the lineage of Newton Jasper back through Lewis to John and Nancy Render Yager and shared that chart with others. Mrs. Perdue (pictured here) told me it was her father Ben Caddell who drew the diagram of graves with data on those buried in the Yeager Family Graveyard, when she escorted me through the graveyard in May 1994. Later I was given a copy of Mr. Caddell's diagram by Mary Frazier Norris Martinez.
So far, to my knowledge, Find-a-Grave memorials have been established for 3 of the 12 children of John Yager b1750 (son of Michael b1728, son of Adam b1708, son of Nicholas b1678): Reuben, #67663471; Abijah, #73840152; and this one for Lewis.
- Betty (EYJ)
Milita records indicate Lewis,along with his brothers Abner & Reuben Yager/Yeager enlisted on November 13,1814 at Fayetteville, Tenn.
Lewis was the Son of John and Ann (Render) Yagger
South Carolina "Deeds" Archives show John Yagger/Yeager owning property on "Wolf Creek" in South Carolina in the 1790's.
Married: Anna Carmack on November 26, 1822 in Bibb County, Alabama by Justice of the Peace: J.Hunt.
The land where the family burial site exist today is on the land originally owned by LEWIS YEAGER.
∼For more information on Lewis Yager, his parents and siblings, please go to my contributor profile page.
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Lewis Yager (1794-1853), whose surname began to be spelled Yeager during his lifetime, is the son of John Yager (1750-1816), DAR Patriot A209347; son of Michael Yager (1728-1794), DAR Patriot A129516; son of Adam Yager (1708-1794), DAR Patriot A129501; son of Nicholas Yager (born 1678). The surname was originally spelled Jager with an umlaut over the a, then anglicized to Yager in the colony of Virginia, then changed to Yeager by Lewis and most of his siblings.
Nicholas and his son Adam were born in Germany. Nicholas brought his wife Anna Maria Sieber Yager, son Adam and daughter Mary into the English colony of Virginia in 1717 as part of a group of immigrants now known as the Second Germanna Colony. Adam's firstborn in America was Michael, who lived in what is now Madison County, Virginia, all his life.
Michael was the first of this line to be born in America. Michael's firstborn was John born 25 November 1750 -- not to be confused with a man widely known as "John Yager, Sr., of the piney woods" born about 1730. John married Ann (nicknamed "Nancy") Render, daughter of English Quaker Lewis Render in 1776. John's and Nancy's first 8 children (including Abijah buried in Bethel Cemetery, Bibb Co., AL) were born in what was then Culpeper County, Virginia, before John relocated his family to the northwest corner of South Carolina in 1790.
Settling in Laurens County, SC, John and Nancy had 4 more children, including Lewis. John, his wife, children and grandchildren began moving out of S.C. in the early 1810s. Several went south into Georgia, but most headed westward into Lincoln County, Tennessee, where John died after 6 May 1816.
Lewis and his brothers Reuben and Abner fought in the Battle of New Orleans. My great-uncle John Alexander Yeager stated in a 1939 letter to the Tennessee State Archives that Lewis (his grandfather) was a sharpshooter and bodyguard to Andrew Jackson. Lewis returned to Lincoln County, Tennessee, where he lived next door to his uncle Augustine Yager until after 1820. He then moved south to join other family members and settled permanently in Bibb County, Alabama, where he married Anna Cammack, daughter of John Cammack II, on 26 November 1822.
Lewis and Anna had 13 children, 12 of whom survived infancy: Constantine, Israel Miles, Martha Ann, Araminta, Virgil Peck, Newton Jasper, Daniel Wayne, Narcissa, Chapley Harvey, Casseline, Dixon Harry Lewis, and Mary. Three died in the Civil War: Virgil Peck (called Peck), Chapley Harvey (called Harvey), and Dixon Harry Lewis (called Harry-Lewis); and one, my ggf Daniel Wayne (called Dan'l), was wounded at the Battle of Corinth on 4 Oct 1862.
The Yeager Family graveyard is about 1/4 mile from the place where Lewis and Anna lived, according to Lewis's great-granddaughter Jessie Caddell Perdue. Lewis's son Newton Jasper Yeager inherited it and passed it on to his daughter Sarah Ann Elizabeth "Betty" Yeager Caddell. It is Newton's house, rebuilt after it burned, not Lewis's, that occupies the land next to the graveyard. In 1960 the Caddells' daughter Troy Lou (Jessie's sister), who lived in the house most of her life, recorded the lineage of Newton Jasper back through Lewis to John and Nancy Render Yager and shared that chart with others. Mrs. Perdue (pictured here) told me it was her father Ben Caddell who drew the diagram of graves with data on those buried in the Yeager Family Graveyard, when she escorted me through the graveyard in May 1994. Later I was given a copy of Mr. Caddell's diagram by Mary Frazier Norris Martinez.
So far, to my knowledge, Find-a-Grave memorials have been established for 3 of the 12 children of John Yager b1750 (son of Michael b1728, son of Adam b1708, son of Nicholas b1678): Reuben, #67663471; Abijah, #73840152; and this one for Lewis.
- Betty (EYJ)
Inscription
LEWIS YAGER
CORP 1 W TENN MILITIA
WAR OF 1812
MARCH 18, 1794 APRIL 26, 1853
Gravesite Details
This is a Private Family Burial Ground.
Family Members
Parents
Spouse
Siblings
Children
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Constantine Yeager
1824–1900
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Israel Miles Yeager
1825–1906
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Martha Ann Yeager Caudle
1827–1918
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Araminta "Minty" Yeager Yates
1828–1902
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Newton Jasper Yeager
1833–1917
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Daniel Wayne "Dan'l" Yeager
1835–1910
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Narcissus "Narsisie" Yeager Wooten
1836–1926
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Chapley Harvey Yeager
1839–1864
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Casseline Yeager "Aunt Cass" Frazier
1841–1926
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Infant Daughter Yeager
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