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Jean Gaw Buckley researched this line, and corresponded with Sheila Yeo. Gary Garrettson has kindly provided useful additional information.
John Yeo, son of Joseph Yeo and Jane Giffard, was baptised at Shebbear in 1651. He trained as a minister and emigrated to America, where he is believed to have been the first Anglican minister in the state of Maryland. He died in Maryland in 1686. He must have retained connections with England, as the administration of his estate was granted in London.
In records from the United States, John Yeo’s surname and the surname of many of his descendants is generally recorded with the spelling Yoe.
In Maryland, John Yoe married Semelia Garretson née Bedell, widow of Ruthan Garrettson [notes 1, 2], and had one son:
– John Yoe (see below).
John Yoe (1675–1733, son of John and Semelia Yoe) married Ann Jarman. They had ten children, including:
– Aaron Yoe (see below)
– James Yoe (1717–1752)
– Robert Yoe (see below).
Aaron Yoe (born c1695, son of John Yoe and Ann Jarman) married Ann Burke and had a son:
– Thomas Yoe (see below).
Robert Yoe (1728–1762, son of John Yoe and Ann Jarman) married Mary Wilson. They had three children:
– John Yoe (born 1750)
– William Yoe (see below)
– Anne Yeo (1753–1813).
Thomas Yoe (born 1740, son of Aaron Yoe and Ann Burke) had a wife Lydia and four sons:
– David Yoe (1789–1817)
– Samuel Burke Yoe (1791–1866, married Sally Ann Clark, two daughters)
– Thomas Burke Yoe (1793–1853, married Elizabeth Corse Sherwood, eight children)
– William Burke Yoe (1794–1884).
William Yoe (born 1752, son of Robert Yoe and Mary Wilson) had at least one son. The family line continues through his descendant:
– Levi Yeo (see below).
Levi Yeo (born 1875 in Calvert County, Maryland, descendant of William Yoe) had three children [note 3]:
– Sarah Yeo
– James Yeo (son James Yeo)
– George Washington Yeo (see below).
George Washington Yeo (1813–1896, son of Levi Yeo) married Nancy Burdin in Ohio in 1837. They lived in Guernsey County, Ohio, where most of their twelve children were born:
– James M. Yeo (1838–1920, married Mary Rebecca Johnson, six children)
– Rebecca J. Yeo (born c1839)
– Mary Frances Yeo (born c1840, married Jacob Dorman Wirick)
– Benjamin Franklin Yeo (born c1841)
– William Burdin Yeo (born 1842, married Lucinda McIlhaney, two daughters)
– John Thomas Yeo (see below)
– George Nelson Yeo (born 1846)
– Robert Wesley Yeo (1847–1909, married Emma Rhinehart, two children)
– Samuel Gibson Yeo (1848–1933, married Harriet V. George and Mary Catherine Dew, four children from second marriage)
– Ann Yeo (born 1852, married John Calvin Woodburn)
– Anna Jeannette Yeo (1855–1936, married William Webb and William Yeo)
– Wesley L. Yeo (born 1859, married Mary Eales, three children).
John Thomas Yeo (1843–1916, son of George Washington Yeo and Nancy Burdin) married Elizabeth Voorhes. They had five children, including their youngest:
– Jesse Thomas Yeo (1890–1965, married Blanch Hanawalt, son Melvyn Hanawalt Yeo).
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Notes
1. No record of the date or place of this marriage has been found; it would have taken place about 1670. Semelia’s name is also recorded as Somelia.
2. John was tried for sedition in New Castle, Delaware after claiming that the area belonged to Maryland.
3. Levi had a grandson Jonas William Yeo.