Stephen Yates^{[1, 2]}

1756 - 1836  (80 years)

• Name	Stephen Yates
  Birth	1756	Gretna, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Event-Misc	1777	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [4]
  Residence	1782	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [5]
  Residence	1820	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
  Residence	1830	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
  Death	16 Dec 1836	White Thorn, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [6]
  Burial	Gretna, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [6, 7]
  Person ID	I676	Master
  Last Modified	20 Oct 2022

  
  

  Father	John Estes "Of Dan River" Yates, III,   b. 10 Apr 1714, , Nansemond, Virginia, USA d. 22 Jun 1779, Rehoboth, Lunenburg, Virginia, USA (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Sarah Elizabeth Ann Kilgore,   b. 15 Jan 1718, , Caroline, Virginia, USA d. 3 Feb 1793, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	1748	, Brunswick, Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F206	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jemima Yates
  Family ID	F10558	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Oct 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Lydia Parsons,   b. 1757, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 4 Oct 1805, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	1770	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [2, 8]
  Children	1. Mary Polly Yates,   b. 1770, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. Mar 1845, , Marshall, Tennessee, USA (Age 75 years) + 2. Stephen Yates, Jr,   b. 1774, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1860, , Caldwell, Kentucky, USA (Age 86 years) + 3. Samuel Yates,   b. 22 Jan 1776, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 22 May 1836, Yates Tavern, Gretna, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 60 years)   4. Tarpley James Yates,   b. 1778, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1810, , Williamson, Tennessee, USA (Age 32 years)   5. Joseph M Yates,   b. 1782, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1833, Straightstone, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 51 years)   6. Sarah (Sally) Yates,   b. Jan 1783, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 7 Jun 1860, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 77 years)   7. Charles B Yates,   b. 1786, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1817, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 31 years)   8. Elizabeth Yates,   b. 1789, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1865, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 76 years)   9. Eva Ashley Yates,   b. 1789, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1834, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 45 years)   10. John V Yates,   b. 1790, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 19 Feb 1866, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 76 years)   11. William Thomas Yates,   b. 8 Mar 1792, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 19 Feb 1866, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F201	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2022

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1756 - Gretna, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Marriage - 1770 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Event-Misc - 1777 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Residence - 1782 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Residence - 1820 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Residence - 1830 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Burial - - Gretna, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Histories

  Yates Tavern

  
  

• Notes

  Yates Tavern is located 1/4 mile South of Gretna, Va. === Yates Tavern is the only block-house standing in Pittsylvania County, Va. and possibly the state. It is located on U.S. 29 business about a fourth of a mile south of Gretna. It was built around 1750 and sheltered travelers in what was then a western wilderness. It is said to be the only dwelling in Virginia constructed with Elizabethan or Tudor over-hangs or front and back jetties. It is deemed a blockhouse because of the 10-inch overhang of the second story. Indian campgrounds were mentioned in deeds on Potter's and Reddies' creeks a few miles away. Saponi Town, near Altavista, was only about 12 miles away. The Yates family came to Pittsylvania County earlier than 1767 when both John Yates and John Yates Jr. were listed among the first tithables. It is not clear which of the Yates family members built the tavern. According to 18th Century Landmarks of Pittsylvania County by Madalene Vaden Fitzgerald and Frances Hallam Hurt, Stephen Yates paid a tax of $8.50 in 1813 to keep an ordinary at his house. In 1818, Yates paid the sum of $1.67 tax and a license was granted him "to keep a house of private entertainment where he now resides." The house is made from weather-boarding and has a rock chimney. There is a large public room with a rock fire-place beneath an impressive mantel. A smaller adjoining main floor room has an under the staircase closet. The corner stairway leads to a two-roomed loft upstairs. The English basement, half in and half out of the ground, has walls two-feet thick. It was in the enormous basement fireplace that meals were prepared. There is trap door access from the main floor into the basement. One of the first acts of the Gentlemen Justices in 1767 was to set prices for liquors and lodging. Overnight lodging with breakfast or dinner was six shillings, with the same for a horse. Brandy was eight shillings a gallon; whiskey, six; West India rum, 10; with Virginia beer and cider going for two shillings, six pence. Near the tavern was Pigg River Road which ran from Peytonsburg to Smith Mountain and from which Yates Tavern drew its customers. Several members of the Yates family are buried in a nearby cemetery. The tavern was restored through grants from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Virginia Landmarks, Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors and the late DeWitt Wallace of Reader's Digest. THREE LIPFORD BRIDES FOR THREE YATES BROTHERSJohn Yeardley Yates, William D. Yates, and Byrd R. Yates were sons of Samuel Yates and Mary (Polly) Davis Yates. They were grandsons of Stephen Yates and Lydia Parsons Yates, all of Pittsylvania County. Elizabeth Feline Lipford , Mary B. Lipford, and Julia R. Lipford were all granddaughters of Anthony Par Lipford and Elizabeth Robinson Lipford. John Yeardley Yates, born January 1, 1807 in Pittsylvania County, married Elizabeth Feline Lipford on December 16, 1825. Elizabeth, born December 1, 1814 in Pittsylvania County, was the daughter of Daniel Lipford and Elizabeth (Betsey) Robertson Lipford. Her grandfather Anthony Par Lipford was bondsman for her marriage to John. John Yeardley Yates and Elizabeth Feline Lipford Yates had thirteen children: William Anthony Yates, Henry Fleming Yates, George Washington Yates, Richard Davis Yates, Susan Jane Yates, Beverly Arnold Yates, Ferdinand N. Yates, Thomas Monroe Yates, Hartwell F. Yates, Elvira A. Yates, Mary Elizabeth Yates, John David Yates and James B. Yates. The family was living in Pittsylvania County in 1850 and by 1860 they had moved to Patrick County. John Yeardley Yates was listed on the Muster Roll of the 53rd Regiment of Pickett's Division during the Civil War, and five of his sons served in the war. Shortly after 1870 the family moved to Floyd County, where John died on February 16, 1882, and Elizabeth died on March 24, 1908. They are both buried in the Yates Cemetery. William D. Yates, born April 20, 1813 in Pittsylvania County, married Mary B. Lipford on November 20, 1838 in the county. Mary was born 1823, the daughter of Amos Lipford (who consented to the marriage) and his wife Elizabeth Frizzell Lipford, and the granddaughter of Anthony Par Lipford. William and Mary had eight children: Margaret F. Yates, Abram Yates, Eliza Virginia (Jenny) Yates, Rebecca Jane Yates, Isaac Anthony Yates, Jacob Thomas Yates, Benjamin G. Yates, and Sybil William (Sibby) Yates. William inherited Yates Tavern, located ¼ mile south of Gretna, from his father Samuel Yates in 1840 (Pittsylvania County Deed Book 44, page 157). William D. Yates died about 1864 in Gretna. After the death of her first husband, Mary B. Lipford Yates married William S. Yates, son of William Thomas Yates and Mary (Polly) Shelhorse Yates. Mary B. Lipford Yates died June 1873 in Gretna and her second husband William S. Yates died August 1873. Byrd R. Yates, born about 1823 in Pittsylvania County, married Julia R. Lipford October 27, 1842. Julia was the daughter of Amos Lipford and Elizabeth Frizzell and also the granddaughter of Anthony Par Lipford. Julia and Byrd had two children: Elizabeth Ann (Bettie) Yates and James Yates. Julia died 1846-1847 in Pittsylvania County. After Julia's death, Byrd married Perninah "Nina" Keesee. Byrd R. Yates died December 1, 1860 in the county. Source: Pittsylvania County Heritage Book, Volume Two. In 1815, with his son Samuel, Stephen Yeatts took out a license to operate an ordinary (an early American term for a bar or tavern) at the Yates Tavern (see notes below), in Gretna, Virginia. In the feverish days of 1777, Stephen took the oath of allegiance to the new country and against the King from Abraham Shelton. The Yates Tavern, called the only building of its kind in Virginia by the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, is unique for its jetties. These are second-floor protrusions of some 10 inches giving a bit more space in the upper floor. This little building, constructed in the mid-1700's, was home to several generations of the Yates family, who also from time to time took out licenses to operate an "ordinary," a sort of frontier bed-and-breakfast. It was strategically located along the old Pigg River Road and only a few miles from Hickey's Road, the first major road penetrating this part of western Virginia from the east. It is likely to have been an especially convenient stop during the Revolutionary War days, at which time Peytonsburg (14 miles to the southeast) was one of nine busy supply depots in Virginia.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. [S32] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.), Source number: 1598.165; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1. [S340] Findagrave.com, (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 16 July 2011.) (Reliability: 3). Name: Stephen Yates Sr Birth Date: 1756 Birth Place: Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA Death Date: 1836 Death Place: Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA Cemetery: Yates Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Gretna, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA Has Bio?: Y Spouse: Lydia Yates Father: John Yates III Mother: Elizabeth Yates Children: Stephen Yates Jr URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124576336&ref=acom [S509] Headen, Cynthia Hubbard, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1777 Oaths of Allegiance , Abraham Shelton's List (Reliability: 3). Oaths of Allegiance - 1777 Pittsylvania County, VA, Record Type: transcription, Site Name: Virginia GenWeb - Pittsylvania County, Url: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapittsy/Oaths.html [S36] Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp., Virginia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.). [S340] Findagrave.com, (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 16 July 2011.) (Reliability: 3). Name: Stephen Yates Sr Birth Date: 1756 Birth Place: Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA Death Date: 1836 Death Place: Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA Cemetery: Yates Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Gretna, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA Has Bio?: Y Spouse: Lydia Yates Father: John Yates III Mother: Elizabeth Yates Children: Stephen Yates Jr URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124576336&ref=acom [S751] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S472] Lela C. Adams, Abstracts of Pittsylvania County Virginia Wills, 1767-1820, (Southern Historical Press Inc, Greenville South Carolina, 1986), p. 64, Will of Richard Parsons. Will of Richard Parsons Court Orders Book 5, page 139 Pittsylvania County, VA December 22, 1783 In the Name of God Amen I Richard Parsons of the County of Pittsylvania being old and weak in body but enjoying my usual reason and memory and calling to mind the mortality of man do make and ordain this my last Will and testament in manner and form following, to wit, First my desire is that my Soul assends and rest with God that gave it and secondly my desire is that my body be decently buried, Thirdly I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Hannah Madkiff and her husband Joseph Madkiff one shilling Sterling to them my said daughter Hannah Madkiff and her husband Joseph Madkiff and their heirs forever. Forthly I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Agness Madkiff and to her Husband John Madkiff one shilling Sterling to them my said daughter Agness Madkiff and her husband John Madkiff and their hiers forever. Fifthly I give and bequeath to my well beloved son George Parsons one shilling Sterling to him my said Son George Parsons and his heirs for ever, Sixthly I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Joseph Parsons one shilling sterling to him my said son Joseph Parsons and his heirs forever, Seventhly I give and bequeath to my well beloved son John Parsons one shilling sterling to him my said son John Parsons and his heirs for ever Eighthly I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Samuel Parsons the land whereon he now lives to be divided by a line which my said son Samuel and my son William marked themselves to him my said son Samuel Parsons and his heirs and assignes for ever Ninethly I give and bequeath to my well beloved son William Parsons the land whereon he now lives to be divided as above mentioned to him my said son William Parsons and his heirs and assignes forever Tenthly on the land above mentioned is mortgage for which my son Samuel Parsons is liable to pay said mortgage if he does not then my will is that his part of the land that is to say the land whereon he now lives is to be sold by my executors to off said morgage Eleventhly I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Lydia Yates and her husband Stephen Yates all my Black Smith tools to her my said daughter Lydia Yates and her husband Stephen Yates to them and their heirs for ever Twevlthly and lastly as I and my wife is now living with my daughter Lydia Yates and her husband Stephen Yates and they using us with the greatest kindness my will and desire is that they the said Lydia and Stephen Yates to have all the remainder of my estate that is to say my cattle and my black mare and also all my household furniture which is now in their possession but not til after my decease and the decease of my Wife. Furthermore I revoke all former wills by me made and do confirm this my last will and testament. I do appoint and constitute my loving sons Joseph and William Parsons executors of this my last will and testament Witness my hand and seal. Richard (his mark) Parsons SS Test John Parks, Samuel Parks, Richard Johnson At a Court held for Pittsylvania County February the 21, 1785 This last Will and Testament of Richard Parsons deceased was presented in Court and proved by the Oathes of two of the witnesses Hands and by the Court ordered to be Recorded