28: Mary L. Yerks

Mary L. Yerks is one of three of Anthony and Louisa Yerks's daughters who are buried in the cemetery. The other two are Derinda Yerks, who died in 1856 at the age of five, and Sarah E. Yerks, who died in 1884 at the age of 22.

Anthony Yerks, the son of Peter and Mary Yerks, was born around 1826; his wife Louisa Ann was born around 1825.

This 1860 census is kind of hard to read, but you can make out the names of Anthony and Louisa Yerks and four of their children. One child, of course, had already died at this point.

1860 US Federal Census

By 1870, the Yerks family now had five children, and lived together with Anthony's father Peter and brother Gilbert.

1870 US Federal Census

Here is the Yerks family again in 1880. Here things get a little confused for me, because one of the family trees on Ancestry suggests that Adelia Yerks married Thomas Farrington and that they had two children by 1880, yet here she appears as an unmarried daughter living with her parents. Also, it's pretty clear that Louisa wasn't five years older than her daughter. She was 56, not 36.

1880 US Federal Census

Anthony - or Marc Anthony as he is called in his obituary - died in 1891. The obituary states he leaves behind "a son and daughter," but I believe this is referring to the son and daughter (George and Mary) who were still living at home at this point.

Nine years later, Louisa Yerks was living with George and Mary along with Harry Farrington, age 25. This is why the census for 1880 must be incorrect in some way - I found Harry Farrington as a child living with Adelia Yerks Farrington, who must have been married before his birth in 1875. Harry also had a younger brother, Arthur.

1900 US Federal Census

Ten years later, 87-year-old Louisa Yerks was living with her daughter Elmira Yerks Brundage, Elmira's daughter Florence, and a cousin, David Yerks.

1910 US Federal Census

Anthony Yerks's brother Gilbert Yerks, born 1834, served in the 17th New York Infantry from May 1861 to June 1863. In 1870 and 1880, he was living with his brother and his family and was unmarried. Then, in 1898, at the age of 65, he married a 56-year-old woman named Sarah B. According to the 1900 census, Sarah was the mother of 12 children, only four of whom were living.

As for the rest of Anthony and Louisa's children ...

Adelia A. Yerks married Thomas Farrington, a blacksmith and the son of George and Susan Farrington, and had two sons, Harry and Arthur. She died in 1935. Her son Arthur died in 1983 at the age of 103.

Elmira Yerks married Smith Brundage in 1876 and had five children, only two of whom were living in 1900.

Mary L. Yerks didn't marry and died in 1908 at the age of 52.

Gilbert W. Yerks was a farmer and didn't marry until 1902, when he was 41. He and his wife Martha had two daughters, Edith and Olive.

Sarah E. Yerks died in 1884 at the age of 22.

1. Peter Yerks (1795-) m. Mary (1799-)
1. Marc Anthony Yerks (1826-1891) m. Louisa Ann (1825-)
1. Adelia A. Yerks (1849-1935) m. Thomas Farrington (1849-)
1. Harry Farrington (1875-) m. Mary Jimeson (1873-1942)
1. Walter Farrington (1906-) m. Mary (1900-)
1. Donald R. Farrington (1930-)
2. Thomas Farrington (1933-)
2. Clarence Farrington (1908-1939)
3. Mildred Farrington (1916-)
2. Arthur Farrington (1880-1983) m. Jennie (1883-)
1. Ralph T. Farrington (1902-) m. Lillian (1903-)
1. Helen E. Farrington (1928-)
2. Ernest C. Farrington (1906-) m. Grace (1908-)
1. Ernest Farrington (1934-)
2. Ronald Farrington (1939-)
2. Derinda Yerks (1851-1856)
3. Elmira Yerks (1854-) m. Smith Brundage (1852-) in 1876
1. Florence Brundage (1880-)
2. William H. Brundage (1881-) m. Tillie Dingee (1877-)
4. Mary L. Yerks (1854-1908)
5. George W. Yerks (1859-) m. Martha (1878-) in 1902
1. Edith Yerks (1903-1977) m. Norman Williams Lander (1903-)
1. George Washington Lander (1928-1989)
2. Olive Yerks (1907-1985)
6. Sarah E. Yerks (1862-1884)
2. Gilbert Yerks (1833-) m. Sarah B. (1842-)
3. Alexander Yerks (1836-1909)