Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Yeomans, Sanford A. 1896
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The Ionia [Weekly] Standard
Friday, January 8, 1896 
THE LATE HON. SANFORD A. YEOMANS.

Sanford A. Yeomans was born in German Flats, Herkimer county, N. Y., Nov. 29,
1816. He was the eldest of nine children. His father was Erastus Yeomans, one of
the original (or Dexter) colony of 5 families who came to the valley of the
Grand river and founded the city of Ionia in the year 1833. His mother was
Phoebe (Arnold) Yeomans. Erastus Yeomans was born in Lebanon, Conn., and Phoebe
Arnold in Smithfield, Rhode Island. So it will be seen that the subject of this
sketch came from good, old New England stock.

Erastus (or Judge) Yeomans was the first postmaster of Ionia; he was elected a
county judge, was one of the original pillars of the Baptist church in this
town, and to the day of his death retained the respect and confidence of his
fellow citizens. His home in the early days was in the house which still stands
near the corner of West Main and Yeomans street.

Sanford A., then a boy of seventeen, came to Ionia with his parents in 1833. In
1840, he located 40 acres of government land in the township of Easton, settled
and improved it and made it his home, adding to it from time to time until he
had one of the best farms in Ionia county--the farm on which he lived for 55
years and on which he died, at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, 1895.

In 1840, he married Abigail Thompson, niece of Dexter Arnold. She died after
bearing him four children, three of whom, two sons and one daughter, survive,
viz: Erastus T., Walter, and Mrs. W. J. Just. In 1848, he was married to
Marietta A., daughter of the late Chauncey M. Stebbins. Six children were born
to them, three of whom survive, viz: Willard S., Frank H. and Edwin S. Yeomans.


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