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William Henry Yeo was born in Seneca County, New York in 1839, the youngest of four sons of Thomas Buren Yeo. He married Elizabeth Mary Shutts at Waterloo in Seneca County in 1867, but the 1880 census finds them in Des Moines, Iowa, where William’s occupation is recorded as a moulder. By 1900, William and Elizabeth had moved to Chicago [note 1]. They had nine children:
– Lewis Sanford Yeo (see below)
– Thomas Buren Yeo (1870–1945) [note 2]
– James Edward Yeo (born 1872)
– Minnie Yeo (1872–1873)
– Clara Elizabeth Yeo (1873–1938)
– Francis Yeo (1875–1902)
– Frederick Yeo (1878–1949)
– William Henry Yeo (1881–1965)
– Jessie Yeo (1887–1929).
Elizabeth died in Chicago in 1905. William lived until 1911 and died in Texas, possibly at the home of his son Thomas Buren Yeo.
Lewis Sanford Yeo (1868–1956, son of William Henry Yeo and Elizabeth Mary Shutts) married Maude Butchart in Missouri in 1904. They had five children:
– Kenneth Burdette Yeo (1906–1974, married Freda Kimberling)
– Lauron Sanford Yeo (1907–1963, married Freda Auburn Thomas)
– Emma Mae Yeo (born 1910)
– Jack Austin Yeo (see below)
– Betty Lou Yeo (1924–1993, married Reginald Ray Perkins) [note 3].
Jack Austin Yeo (1915–1968, son of Lewis Sanford Yeo and Maude Butchart) married Wilma Lethem. They had a daughter:
– Sandra Lethem Yeo (1940–2025).
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Notes
1. The 1900 census records William as a 59-year-old iron moulder; his wife Libbie Yeo is 54. With them are their sons Frederick Yeo (age 22, a stockman) and William Yeo (19, an office boy) and their daughter Jessie Yeo (12).
2. Named after his grandfather Thomas Buren Yeo.
3. Married at Maryville, Missouri in 1943; recorded on their marriage certificate as Reginald Rey Perkins and Betty Lew Yeo.