Wayne County

Aaron S. Yarnall

1884 Biographical Sketches of Bedford Twp

YARNALL, AARON S., farmer, P. O. Cisne, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, November 21, 1831, to Joseph and Asenath (Slack) Yarnall, natives of Pennsylvania. The father is a son of Thomas. who was a son of George Yarnall, both of whom were from Pennsylvania. The parents of our subject are both living in this county. They were blessed with eight children, of whom there are four now living—

  1. Drusilla A. S.
  2. Maria
  3. John

Our subject received but a limited education; during his residence in Ohio, he was engaged principally in farming pursuits. March 28, 1853, he landed in Bedford Township, and located where his father now lives. His present farm property consists of eighty acres, and he gives his attention to farming in its various branches.

November 3, 1864, he married Sarah J. Moore, a daughter of Alexander and Jane (Quinn) Moore, who came to Wayne County in 1860. The latter were the parents of nine children, four sons of whom were in the army-Samson C.. in the Eighty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry; John Q., Sixty-second Illinois; Martin W., first in Sixth Missouri, and afterward in Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry, and Robert T., in Sixty-first Illinois. Samson, Robert, and possibly a third child, are now living. Mr. Alexander Moore died August 19, 1883.

Mr. and Mrs. Yarnall are the parents of five children, four of whom survive --

  1. Jessie M.
  2. Asenath J.
  3. Joseph M
  4. William H.

Mr. Yarnall is a Republican in politics and with his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.



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