Name: Yeager, Charles Nicholas
Burial Date: 1934, 07/25
Age at Death: 85
Plot Location: 133 I
Notes: husband of Mary Ann (Jayes) and Clarissa L’Clara’ (Rennick)
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The Parents of Charles Edward Yeager Wilson —- Charles Nicholas Yeager and Mary Ann Jaynes (Janes)
Charles Nicholas Yeager was born on June 29, 1849 in Jefferson TWP, Jackson Co, Ohio. In the 1850, the 1860, and the 1870 Census he was still living there. In 1870 he was 20 years old and still living with his parents. He was a miner at that time.
Mary Ann Jaynes was born in Ohio on October 30, 1852 according to a note that Charles wrote. Very little is known about her. There are even questions about her name. We know she went by Mary Ann, but in some old family records her name was Mariam. Some believe her first name might even be Marian, Marion, or Mariom. On her marriage license her last name was spelled Janes. But it could even be Jynes. In 1860 there were six Jaynes children, ages one month to sixteen years living with a Samuel J Morris, age 33, and a Maria Morris, age 25. In 1870 there is a Mary Ann Jaynes as a Domestic Servant for two different families. There are a couple different Mary Ann Janes that are living with parents. At this time I do not know which one she is.
Charles and Mary Ann married on June 20, 1872 in Jackson Co, Ohio. By the 1875 they were living in Washington Twp, Rice Co, Kansas. Charles was a farmer and Mary Ann was at home taking care of the home. They had a personal estate valued at $103.00. Charles’ mother and brother were living with them. Mary Ann left the Census blank as to where her parents were from. Her name was spelled Meary M that time. Their two oldest children were also there. By the June 8, 1880 Census they were still living in Washington Twp, Rice Co, Kansas. Her name was spelled Mary A or Meary A (With fancy writing it is hard to read). She again left it blank where her parents were from. When their son Charley was born on June 30, 1885 they were living in Sterling, Washington Twp, Rice Co, Kansas.
Mary Ann died on March 28, 1888. Her younger children believed it was from a miscarriage, but her obituary makes it sound more like it might have been Huntington Disease. A fire in Sterling in 1911 destroyed many of the old records. Charley was less than three years old. Charley remembers that his Mother gave him one spanking. The three youngest children were “given away” according to Cora, Charley’s wife. Charley’s siblings, Jessie and Luther went with other families. Charley was the only one that was legally adopted. We don’t know if it was because their father couldn’t afford to keep them or if it was just too much work. Charley went to live with ‘Aunt Ellen’. She was Charles’s sister, Phebe Ellen Yeager Whitt. She was a widow with seven children of her own. She lived a couple of doors away from Charles Nicholas. His older sibling might have gone to stay with other families because his oldest sister was living with A R Clark in 1895. She later gave her daughter the middle name of Clark.
On July 1, 1893 he married Clarissa “Clara” Rennick (Cordray, later Stratton) in Crawford County, Kansas. On March 1, 1895, Clara was living in Baker, Crawford, Kansas without Charles. She had their son, Alfred Yeager, age 1 year.
We loose track of Charles until 1899. On November 14, 1899 he showed up for his son, Charley’s adoption. He was then living in Citatifield, Crawford Co, Kansas. There was a C. Cirina Yeager as a witness to the adoption. (Cora believed that Charles married a young widow with three children of her own for a short time. Maybe this was that lady, but the name does not look like that of Clara’s.)
On a letter dated August 14, 1909, it sounds like Charles was living with Jessie in Little River, Mitchell, Rice, Kansas. Clara was in Pittsburg, Kansas with Alfred and Maggie. Luther was in Sterling, Charley was in Nash, Oklahoma, and Lydia was in Pheledelphia, Pennsylvania. The other children, Della, Phoebe Elizabeth “Bessie”, and Alva Franklin “Nick”, had all died.
Charles’ son, Charley, married Cora on July 8, 1906. After they were married Charles went to live with them in Nash, Oklahoma. He was there in 1910. Cora said that he moved around a lot and just stayed with whom ever would let him stay. In 1910 he was also listed as living with his daughter, Jessie in Mitchell, Rice, Kansas. He was a laborer, doing odd jobs and was educated. In 1910 Clara was living without Charles or Alfred in Macon, Harvey, Kansas. She had their daughter, Maggie, with her and they were using her name of Cordray from her first marriage.
On March 1, 1915 he was staying with G W and Ellen Hudson. My guess is that she was his brother, Hirem’s daughter and he was a farmer. In Jan 1920 he was at his daughter, Maggie’s house. She was married and her last name was Duvall. In March 1925 and in April 1930 he was at Ellen and George Hudson’s house again. He is listed as their uncle. He was not a veteran and they did not have a radio. He was their hired hand, doing farm labor.
Cora said that while staying with them, Charles talked so much about his wife, Mary Ann. During the time that he was staying with them, he left and went for a visit to see his sister, Ellen. Aunt Ellen told Cora that Charles Yeager kept talking about Cora and had told her that ‘Cora was the best woman that he had ever seen’. When Ellen died Charles and his son went from Oklahoma to Kansas to her funeral.
The last time that Charles stayed with his son and Cora, he came home drunk one night. He could not even open the door. Cora said “Bring him in and put him to bed. You can’t talk to a drunk. The next morning, oh was he nice. I didn’t say anything. After he ate, I told him we needed to talk”. He said “Alright honey, anything you say”. “I told him, you are welcome to live with us the rest of your life if you want, but the liquor has to go. No LIQUOR in our home! Charley agreed. He was so mad that he wrote to Luther and went to live with him.”
Luther sent money so that he could come and stay with him. After he arrived, Luther’s wife wrote back that Luther and Charles were drinking their heads off. He got drunk and was going down the road and a car hit him. Cora never saw him again after he went to stay with Luther. Cora said that this is how he died, however, the death certificate states that he was under the care of a doctor from 1/3/1934 to 7/23/1934. He had been living at Broadacres in Hutchinson, Kansas (20 miles from Sterling) or at the County Hospital in Reno TWP, Reno Co, Kansas. He had Arteria Sclarosis and was senile. Maybe he didn’t die right away. Charles N Yeager died July 23, 1934 at the age of 85 years and 24 days. He is buried at the Sterling Community Cemetery in Sterling, Kansas (formerly called Peace). He was a retired farmer. (When Cora said that he got hit by a car, she could not hear . Maybe she was talking about her husband Charley instead of his father, but Charley wasn’t drunk. He had Huntington Disease.)
Buried beside Charles is a Mrs. Nicholas Yeager and Maggie Wolf . The lot was owned by Luther and later transferred to Rozetta McMurphy, his wife. Mrs. Nicholas Yeager was Mary Ann Jaynes (Janes) Yeager.
Charles and Mary Ann’s son had Huntington’s Disease. That is an inherited disease. One of the two parents had to of had it. No one ever mentioned Charles having any symptoms, so my guess is that it came from Mary Ann.
Charley’s daughter was named Marian. I wonder if she was names after His mother, Mary Ann.
The Children of Charles Nicholas Yeager and Mary Ann Jaynes (Janes) —- Siblings of Charles Edward Yeager Wilson
Clarissa “Clara” L Rennick was born in 1852 in Missouri, Oregon, the child of James McDade Rennick and Mary Polly(Owens). She was married three times and had five sons and three daughters. She died on May 25, 1935, in Newton, Kansas, at the age of 83, and was buried there.