Given Name: William Lafayette

Surname: Yates

 Sex: M

Birth: 28 Jan 1840 in Alabama USA

Death: 1923 in Jayton, Kent County, Texas

Event: For sons And six daughters Born to William L. and Edna Yates

Religion: Baptist

 Burial: Jayton Cemetery Jayton , Kent County, Texas-Marked with a Civil War Plaque

Occupation: At age twenty, Apprentice Potter Age thirty,Wagoner, age forty, Farmer,Civil War Veteran. Event: A plaque placed at the grave by Grandson Dow Yates.Reads;William L Yates-Co.C-40 Miss.Rect Confederate States Army 1840-1923

Military Service: Confederate States Army The Civil War, A prisoner of war at Vicksburg , Mississippi on July 4Th day AD1863

Note: William Lafayette Yates served in the Civil War.Vols.C.S.A, being A prisoner of war in the hands of the U.S.Forces, in virtue of the capitulation of the city of Vicksburg and its garrison on the 4Th day of July,1863 He was with company C-40 Miss. Rect.Confederate States Army--1840-1923

Note: The William Lafayette Yates family moved from Neshoba County, Mississippi around 1891 to the Community of Coltharp in Houston County, Texas.
Father: Darling Barber YATES b: 03 Mar 1815 in In Georgia, USA 

Death:18 Jun 1861 in Philadelphia, Neshoba, County, Mississippi. He was the son of James Yates and Statia Barber.

Mother: Mary Emily OLIVER b: 17 Feb 1820 in in South Carolina, USA

 Death: 16 Jul 1900 in Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi. She was the daughter of Thomas Oliver and Mary Stark.
Marriage 1 Edna Amelia SALTER b: 17 Feb 1844 in Mississippi,  Edna A. "Sis" Salter

was born to William Washington Salter and Mary Edna Lee

Death: 27 Oct 1898 in Coltharp, Houston County, Texas.

Burial: The Antioch Cemetery, Five miles from Crockett, Houston County, Texas.

Children

1. Robert Darling ( Bob) YATES b: 18 Dec 1874 in Neshoba County, Mississippi, and died 25 Sep 1958 in Grapeland, Houston County, Texas. 
2. John William YATES b: 09 Apr 1870 in Neshoba, County, Mississippi, and died 07 Jul 1956 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. 
3. Samuel Thomas YATES b: 23 Sep 1871 in Neshoba,County, Mississippi, and died 22 Jan 1965 in Abilene, Texas. 
4. Lorenzo Dow YATES b: 12 Feb 1882 in Philadelphia, Neshoba, Mississippi, and died 19 Dec 1964 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. 
5. Emily Florence YATES b:20 Oct 1863 in Neshoba, County, Mississippi. and died 11 Feb 1950 in Jones School House Community, Houston County, Texas. 
6. Eudora YATES b: 23 Dec 1864 in Neshoba County, Mississippi.and died29 Jun 1937 in Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi. 
7. Josephine "Jody" YATES b: Feb 1867 in Neshoba County, Mississippi and died 18 May 1964 in The Terrell State Hospital,Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas. 
8. Denkia Matilda "Dink" YATES b: 01 Dec 1876 in Neshoba County, Mississippi and died 02 Nov 1961 in Clinton, Custer County, Oklahoma. 
9. Bertie Mae YATES b: 20 Jan 1877 in Neshoba County, Mississippi and died 24 Sep 1969 in Angelina County, Texas.
10. Alma Geneva YATES b,29 Jan 1881 in Neshoba County, Mississippi and died 06 Mar 1962 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.