Infant Yeager

The funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Yeager's little child, that died last Saturday afternoon, occurred at the Commercial Hotel Sunday. The interment took place at Monrovia. Mr. Yeager and family have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement.
The Whiting Weekly News, July 13, 1883.

HENRY YEAGER, proprietor of Commercial Hotel, was born in Clinton County, Pa., in 1840, and lived in his native State until the fall of 1861, when he entered the Union army as a member of Company A, Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, enlisting at Lockhaven, Pa., and was discharged at Louisville, Ky., in June, 1862, for disability contracted whilein the service, from which he suffers today. After his discharge he returned to his home in Pennsylvania where he remained until he had partially regained his health, and in the fall of 1863 re-enlisted in the United States service at Williamsport, Pa., as a member of Company I, One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, being discharged at Philadelphia, Pa., at the close of the war in July, 1865. Owing to the state of his health, Mr. Yeager was kept constantly on detached duty while a member of the last named regiment. After his final discharge he again returned to his Pennsylvania home where he resided until the spring of 1867, when he became a resident of Kansas, locating in Monrovia, Atchison county, where he resided about six years. Thence he removed to Arrington, in the same county, where he lived two years and then returned to Monrovia where he lived until the winter of 1882, when he removed to Whiting, Jackson County, where he took charge of the Commercial Hotel, of which he is now the proprietor. Mr. Yeager was Constable of Center Township, Atchison County, five years, and held the same office in Kapioma Township, in the same county, two years. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. He is also a member of the Page Post, No. 136, of Whiting, G. A. R. He was married in 1860, in Clinton County, Pa., to Miss Delilah Dobson, a native of Pennsylvania. They have had eight children, six of whom are living. The Commercial Hotel, of Whiting, under Mr. Yeager's able management, assisted in no small degree by his capable wife, has a large profitable patronage and is steadily growing into favor. Mr. Yeager is an agreeable and obliging host, provides the best the markets afford, is reasonable in his charges(in this respect differing in toto from most of the small landlords in the small towns of Kansas who appear to think that the poorer their accommodations are, the higher they should charge their victims), and so, consequently, highly popular with the traveling public who quite frequently fill his house to overflowing.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Nov 6 2021, 1:04:20 UTC