Katheryn Patricia Houghton1

F, #63541, b. 6 August 1982

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BirthAug 6, 1982Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA, USA2
Living2008
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  2. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmckibben/fondren/… Descendants of Dave and Annie Fondren.

Mary Houghton1

F, #63542, b. circa 1725, d. 1785

Family 1: Richard Clayton d. 1770

Family 2: Harman Yerkes b. 18 Jan 1719/20, d. 29 Nov 1804

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Birthcirca 1725CJV opinion
Marriage1
ResidenceSep, 1773Newbritten, Bucks Co., PA, USA
MarriageSep 30, 1773Southampton Baptist Church, Southampton, Bucks Co., PA, USA, Pennsylvania Marriage Records. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Archives Printed Series, 1876. Series 2, Series 6, page 322. "1773, Sep. 23. Yerkus, Herman, and Mary Clayton"1
WillMay 10, 1784Bucks Co., PA, USA, Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993: Bucks Co., 980 - Page 362.
Mary Yerkes, wife of Harman Yerkes of Warminster late Mary Clayton. Dated 5—10—1784.     Prvd, 2-1-1785. Brother Joseph Houghton and Isaac Hough, Jr.
Joseph Houghton & John Knowled third party to Tripartite Agreement. Richard Houghton son of Bro. Joseph-Elizabeth and Mery Daughters of Bro. Joseph. Niece Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Hough, Jr. Niece Sarah Vanhorne and Niece Jane Linsey Daughter of sister Dinah Dec'd. Friend Isaac Hough, Sr. - Nephew John Houghton, dec'd. Wits: Herman Yerkes, Mary Yerkes, William Vanhorne.
Death1785Bucks Co., PA, USA1
ResearchBucks Co., PA, USA
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Richard Clayton1

M, #63543, d. 1770

Family: Mary Houghton b. c 1725, d. 1785

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Death17701
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Harman Yerkes1

M, #63544, b. 18 January 1719/20, d. 29 November 1804

Family: Mary Houghton b. c 1725, d. 1785

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BirthJan 18, 1719/20Montgomery Co., PA, USA1
MarriageSep 30, 1773Southampton Baptist Church, Southampton, Bucks Co., PA, USA, Pennsylvania Marriage Records. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Archives Printed Series, 1876. Series 2, Series 6, page 322. "1773, Sep. 23. Yerkus, Herman, and Mary Clayton"1
Research1790PA, USA, slaves
DeathNov 29, 1804Moreland, Montgomery Co., PA, USA1
BiographyHARMAN, YERKES (HERMAN2, ANTHONY1) was born January 18, 1719/20 in Montgomery Co., PA, and died November 29, 1804. He married (1) MARY STROUD March 22, 1749/50, daughter of EDWARD STROUD. He married (2) MARY HOUGHTON September 23, 1773. He married (3) ELIZABETH A BALL March 28, 1788 in First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA. She died 1819.

Notes for HARMAN YERKES:
Listed in the DAR Patriot Index... as Private from PA.

Harman Yerkes was the fourth son and fifth child of Herman Yerkes by his wife, Elizabeth Watts; born in the Manor of Moreland 18 January 1720; died there 29 November 1804.

He began his business career as a farmer and miller. From 1752 until 1755, he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Plymouth, but
returned to farming the latter year and continued there until 1788. He was a large land owner. His first real estate purchase was made when he was but 26 years old and consisted of a tract of 137 acres, located in Plymouth Township, which he bought 18 May 1747 from his brother, John, paying him 297 pounds. It is believed that he moved to the land purchased about the time he acquired it and that he continued there until about 1762 when he is supposed to have become a resident of Warminster, Bucks County, where in 1765 he was an overseer of the poor, and where, in 1772, he purchased a a plantation of 181 acres from Joseph Noble. The tract was situated on the Street Road at what is now Johnsville Station on the Northeast Pennsylvania Railroad, and on this tract Harman Yerkes established the first homestead of the Yerkeses in Bucks County and there some of his descendants have ever since resided. He returned to the Manor of Moreland in 1788 which continued to be his place of residence the remainder of his life.

Mr. Yerkes was an active supporter of the War of Independence, and in 1775 he and his son Edward, who was but 18 years of age, enrolled themselves in the Warminster Company of Associators. On 31 July 1777, he was recommended to the Executive Council by Judge Henry Wynkoop to look after billeting the poor. It is probable that his military service was with the militia only. On more than one occasion, the British troopers from Philadelphia were his unwelcome visitors, and his family was subjected to the actual terrors and trials of grim war. In this connection, Judge Harman Yerkes, of Bucks County, has contributed the following item:

"His wife, Mary Clayton, proved herself worthy of the duty of taking charge of a young family in such times, as is shown by the following incident, which Mr. Leach heard from the lips of one (Stephan Beans, then a small boy) who was present. "The house then occupied by the family stood where the smaller end of the present homestead now stands. It contained a sitting room and kitchen on the first floor, with an out attachment used as quarters for the slaves. The second floor was divided into convenient rooms by plain board partitions. "The battle of "Crooked Billet" fought in 1778, began less than 2 miles away and the retreat, or rather rout, of the Americans drifted directly over the adjacent lands. Some of the most harrowing scenes of that dreadful butchery occurred within sight of the Yerkes homestead.

"The narrator of the story lived at the next place north, on the Street Road, and the men being away at the scene of strife
or in concealing the horses and cattle, he (Beans) accompanied his mother to the Yerkes Place at the first alarm. While the two women and children were in the sitting room, an American soldier hastily ran into the house, coming from the south side, and took refuge under a bed which stood in the northeast corner of the room. He stated that he was being pursued by the enemy and in much alarm asked that his place of hiding be concealed. Mrs. Yerkes told him he would not be safe there but that by going out of the back door he could put the house between him and his pursuers and might reach the next place where there was a large pile of buckwheat straw, in which he could hide. He obeyed her directions and in a very short time four British soldiers came in the opposite door and inquired for him. The ladies protested that he was not there. The soldiers then looked under the bed, searched the upstairs rooms and, after maliciously sticking their bayonets through the bed clothing, continued the pursuit.

"The American afterwards returned and thanked the ladies for his deliverance and stated that the British had trampled over the straw and thrust their bayonets far into it but fortunately without hitting him. They spoke of setting fire to it but, owing to some alarm, abandoned the idea and departed."

The religious affiliations of Harman Yerkes were matters of some interest to his descendants. His earliest church connection was probably either with the Low Dutch Church, in which faith his father was no doubt born, or with the Baptists, the faith of his mother, but on the eve of his first marriage he identified himself with the Society of Friends, his first wife being of that persuasion. After this his speech and manners are said to have conformed to the custom of the Friends; nevertheless, his second and third marriages were performed by Baptist clergymen, and he seems to have become a member of the Southampton Baptist Church, Bucks County, as he was one of the committee of that church, in 1772, for the building of a new meeting house. He was buried in the graveyard of the same. These latter facts suggest the strong probability that shorty before his second marriage he attached himself to the faith of his mother, and of his distinguished grandfather, the Reverend John Watts.

His death was recorded in the American Daily Advertiser on the date of 07 December 1804.

He married (1) Mary Stroud, daughter of Edward Stroud of Whitemarsh, at Plymouth Meeting House. She died circa 1771 and he
married (2) Mrs. Mary (Houghton) Clayton, widow of Richard Clayton. She died in 1785 and bequeathed a sum of money to the
Southampton Baptist Church for building a wall around its graveyard. She was actively identified with this church whose
pastor, Reverend Jonathan Blackwood married Mary Stroud and Harman Yerkes. He married (3) On 28 March 1788, he married Mrs. Elizabeth (Ball) Tompkins, widow of John Tompkins who died in 1819. After this marriage, Mr. Yerkes moved to his wife's home on the Old York Road in Moreland where the "widow" Tompkins kept an inn and store, the management of which now fell to Mr. Yerkes.

The History of Bucks County book states as follows:

HARMAN YERKES, fourth son of Herman and Elizabeth (Watts) Yerkes, was born in Moreland, January 18, 1720, and died there
November 29, 1804. Like his father he was a farmer and miller. He also followed the mercantile business at Plymouth
Montgomery County, in the years 1752 - 55, where he had purchased a tract of land from his brother John in 1747. In 1762, he moved to Warminster township, Bucks County, being the first of the family to make a home in this county. He purchased 181 acres of land near Johnsville, which still remains the property of his descendants. He returned to Moreland in 1788 and died there November 29, 1804. He was an active supporter of the war for independence. His name appears on the list of Associators in Warminster in 1775, and he served on various committees under the committee of safety. His Warminster home witnessed some of the bloody carnage and rout following the battle of Crooked Billet in 1778. As incident is related of an American soldier being saved from slaughter by four British soldiers who were pursuing him, by the strategy of Mrs. Mary Yerkes, the second wife of Harman, who, when the soldier had sought refuge in the house, conducted him to a rear exit and found him a place of concealment in a pile of buckwheat straw in a neighboring field. His pursuers entered the house and made a diligent search for the fugitive, thrusting their bayonets through beds and up the chimney, to the terror of the women and children of the household.

After locating at Plymouth, Mr. Yerkes became enamored of a Quaker lass, Mary, the daughter of Edward Stroud, of White Marsh, and uniting himself with the Society, was married to her by the simple ceremony of the Society March 22, 1750-1. She died in 1771, and he married (second) Mary (Houghton) Clayton, widow of Richard Clayton. His second wife, died in 1785, and he married in 1787 Elizabeth (Ball) Tompkins, widow of John Tompkins, of Moreland. She was the proprietress of an inn on the Old York road, and his remaining years were spent as "mine host" at this old hostelry. His widow died in 1819.

Notes for MARY STROUD: Of Moreland.

He married (i), at Plymouth Meeting-House, 22 March, 1750-51, Mary, daughter of Edward Stroud, of Whitemarsh. She died circa 1771, and he married (2), 30 September, 1773, Mrs. Mary (Houghton) Clayton, widow of Richard Clayton. She died in 1785, and bequeathed a sum of money to the Southampton Baptist Church for building a wall around its graveyard, with which church she was actively identified, and by whose pastor, Reverend Jonathan Blackwood, she was married to Mr. Yerkes. He married (3), 28 March, 1788, Mrs. Elizabeth (Ball) Tompkins, widow of John Tompkins. She died in 1819.1
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Frank Houghton1

M, #63545

Family: Elizabeth Craig b. c 1872

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Elizabeth Craig1

F, #63546, b. circa 1872

Family: Frank Houghton

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Birthcirca 1872Philadephia, PA, USA1
Marriage1
ParentsDAndrew Brown Craig and Mary Anne Kearney1
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Edith Houghton1

F, #63547

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Frank Houghton1

M, #63548

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Robert Henry Standifer1

M, #63549

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Valina Malvina Standifer1

F, #63550

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Laura Elizabeth Milam1

F, #63551, b. 23 January 1860, d. 19 July 1936

Family: Andrew Jackson Hooten b. 25 Feb 1851

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BirthJan 23, 1860AL, USA1
Marriage1
DeathJul 19, 19361
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Joseph Cornelius Hooten1

M, #63552, b. 3 October 1877, d. 1881

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BirthOct 3, 18771
Death18811
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Martha Susan Hooten1

F, #63553, b. 14 December 1879

Family: Eugene Gray

  • Marriage*: Martha Susan Hooten married Eugene Gray on 1903.1

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BirthDec 14, 1879TX, USA1
Marriage19031
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Eugene Gray1

M, #63554

Family: Martha Susan Hooten b. 14 Dec 1879

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Marriage19031
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Richard Bennett Hooten1

M, #63555, b. 21 September 1883

Family: Polly Summers

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BirthSep 21, 1883Old Uinta, TX, USA1
Marriage1
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Polly Summers1

F, #63556

Family: Richard Bennett Hooten b. 21 Sep 1883

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Marriage1
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James Ezelle Hooten1

M, #63557, b. 27 November 1885

Family: Vina Garrison

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BirthNov 27, 18851
Marriage1
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Vina Garrison1

F, #63558

Family: James Ezelle Hooten b. 27 Nov 1885

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Marriage1
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Effie Hooten1

F, #63559, b. 16 February 1888

Family: J. L. Wright b. c 1883

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BirthFeb 16, 18881
MarriageDec 11, 19041
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J. L. Wright1

M, #63560, b. circa 1883

Family: Effie Hooten b. 16 Feb 1888

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Birthcirca 18831
MarriageDec 11, 19041
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John Willis Hooten1

M, #63561, b. 20 May 1890

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BirthMay 20, 1890TX, USA1
Deathas an infant
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Evan Hooten1

F, #63562, b. 19 March 1890

Family: E. W. Johnson

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BirthMar 19, 1890TX, USA1
Marriage19091
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E. W. Johnson1

M, #63563

Family: Evan Hooten b. 19 Mar 1890

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Marriage19091
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Ava Hooten1

F, #63564, b. 19 March 1893

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BirthMar 19, 1893TX, USA1
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Roy Lee Hooten

M, #63565, b. 7 June 1896

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BirthJun 7, 1896TX, USA
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Smith Hooten1

M, #63566, b. 6 October 1898

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BirthOct 6, 1898TX, USA1
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Edith Hooten1

F, #63567, b. 10 June 1901

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BirthJun 10, 1901TX, USA1
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Mary Kade Hooten1

F, #63568, b. 8 November 1905

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BirthNov 8, 1905TX, USA1
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Stella Marie Sinclair1,2

F, #63569

Family: George Guy Houghton b. 30 Aug 1890, d. 21 Feb 1966

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Marriage1
Divorce1946Palm Beach Co., FL, USA2
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Jacquelyn Y. Comi, Sep. 6, 2002.
  2. [S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, Florida Divorce Index.

Frances Houghton1

F, #63570, b. circa 1860

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Birthcirca 18601
1870 Census1870Pomfiet, Chautauqua Co., NY, USA, age 10 with Louis and Fredonia McKinstry family1
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  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Pomfiet, Chautauqua Co., NY, Roll 913, p. 548B, line 4.