U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Yowell, Franklin Jefferson (b. 1824) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Pages 514-515 Franklin Jefferson Yowell was born December 24, 1824, in Culpeper County, Virginia, son of William and Semphronia (Hawkins) Yowell. Mrs. Yowell's father's name was William Hawkins. Mr. Yowell was twice married, first, December 27, 1849, on Simpson's Creek, to Zepporah, daughter of John G. and Nancy (Goodwin) Bartlett; second, November 10, 1880, to Ruth Tyson. Mr. Yowell's children were, Marcellus, Vitellius, John Floyd, Semphronia, William Chester, Victoria. He is a Missionary Baptist, and was one of the charter members of the Point Pleasant Church at its organization in 1853, and for twenty years was Church Clerk. He is a Democrat and has held the office of Justice of the Peace sixteen years, and was six years a member of the county court. He owns a highly improved farm of 100 acres, underlaid with coal, on Simpson's Creek, and engages principally in grazing. His grandfather, William Yowell, emigrated from Scotland and settled in Culpeper County, Virginia. The subject of this sketch settled in Harrison County in 1847, and two years later his father, with his family, came, but after a sojourn of one year, moved to Iowa. The father served in the Mexican War, and the grandfather in the War of 1812. The youngest son of J. F. Yowell, William Chester, lives at the old homestead, where he has made his home after extensively traveling over the western country as far as the Rocky Mountains. He was born in 1866, and on January 2, 1890, was married to Abbie, daughter of George G. and Mary Catherine (Lake) Cleavenger. Children, Walker, Russell, Ruby C. and Minnie L. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------