Joseph Yeager

Per Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume II edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery and published 1906, pp. 320-321, Joseph Yeager served in Captain John Wetzel's Company in Colonel Daniel McFarland's Battalion, listed under the County of Westmoreland. Wetzel's Company ranged "in Monogahela and Ohio Countys [sic] from 22d April to 25th July, 1778." Yeagers is listed as a private, mustering in on May 21, 1778, and discharged June 21, 1778, therefore serving for only one month.

Joseph Yeager
BIRTH 29 Sep 1739
DEATH 2 Feb 1838 (aged 98)
Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL
Jacob's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
McClellandtown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26798572/joseph-yeager

DAR Ancestor #: A129515

The following is from the “Burness Genealogy and Family History” web site, retrieved September 3, 2007 from http://www.burness.ca/ancestors/p226.htm.

"Joseph Yeager was born on 28 September 1739 in Germany. He married Catherina Elisabetha Becker, daughter of Johann Nicolaus Becker and Maria Appolonia Bayer. He died on 2 February 1838 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, at age 98."

He was a ranger on the frontier.

Family links:

Spouse:

 Katarina Elizabet Becker Yeager (1743 - ____)

Children:

 Christenia Yeager Haught (1756 - 1824)*

 Joseph Yeager (1760 - 1858)*

 Elizabeth Yeager Brosius (1767 - 1849)*

 Elizabeth Yeager Fast (1768 - 1826)*

 Abalona Elizabeth Yeager Debolt (1774 - 1861)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Jacob's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery McClellandtown Fayette County Pennsylvania, USA

Created by: okey king Record added: May 13, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 26798572

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Joseph Yeager BIRTH 1739 DEATH 2 Feb 1838 (aged 98–99) BURIAL Jacob's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery McClellandtown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania,

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26798572/joseph-yeager

He was a ranger on the frontier.

Children Photo Christenia Yeager Haught 1756–1824

Photo Joseph Yeager 1760–1858

Photo Elizabeth Yeager Brosius 1767–1849

Photo Elizabeth Yeager Fast 1768–1826

Photo Abalona Elizabeth Yeager Debolt 1774–1861

Joseph Yeager
BIRTH 28 Sep 1739
DEATH 2 Feb 1838 (aged 98)
Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL
Jacob's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
McClellandtown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania,

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26798572/joseph-yeager