This couple married in 1896 Lexington, Nebraska under a licence issued the same day. On their marriage certificate, the groom is recorded as 33 years old, born in England to parents W.F. Yeo and Mary E. Churchward [note 1]. The bride is recorded as 21-year-old Miss Lena Hendricks [note 2].
They had twelve children:
– Elizabeth Mary Yeo (1897–1966, married Randolph Millen Huddle)
– William Henry Yeo (1898–1969, married Mabel Esther McClain, Christine Wiens and Gertrude Elinore Goke)
– Martha Lena Yeo (born 1899)
– Emily Yeo (1900–1902)
– Thomas Edward Yeo (born 1902)
– Clinton Palmer Yeo (1903–1976, married Rachel Bertha Curtis)
– Florence Nellie Yeo (born 1905–1996, married Andrew Desoto Wilson)
– John Fletcher Yeo (1907–1995, married Anna Ione Moore and Erna Martha Fleischman)
– Louise Helen Yeo (1909–1990, married William Morgan Fagan)
– Elsie Viola Yeo (1911–2004, married Omer Max La Lande)
– Wilma Esther Yeo (1913–2002, married Napolean Albert Thompson)
– Charles Walter Yeo (1917–1979, married Anna Jean Scholl).
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Notes
1. William was born in 1862; his parents were William Fletcher Yeo and Elizabeth Churchward, who married in 1861, emigrated to Canada and later settled in Oregon. He died in 1920.
2. Lena’s surname might have been misheard or anglicised when the licence was issued or when her arrival in the United States was recorded. She was born in Prussia in 1874 as Lena Martha Heinrich and died in 1961.