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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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GEORGE H. YOAKUM was born on a farm three miles northwest of Salisbury in what is now Menard county, then Sangamon county. June 27, 1829, when four years of age, he moved on the farm where he now resides. His parents were William Yoakum, born in Virginia, a farmer who died April, 1880, and Sallie (Simmons) Yoakum, born in North Carolina. She was the mother of ten children, seven living, viz. Mrs. Mary A. Penny, George H. Yoakum, Martha Duncan, James C. Yoakum, Milton B., Isaac R. and Jesse J. Yoakum; she died on December 5, 1865. Mr. George Yoakum owns a fine farm of one hundred and five acres in section thirty, seventy acres of which is under good cultivation and valued at $40 an acre. He is a Republican.

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