YERKES-B. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

B. YERKES, farmer, Covington was born in Wabash Township, Fountain County, Indiana in 1841 and is the son of Jacob and Ann SHOEMAKER Yerkes, who came to the county in 1839. They have spent a useful life in improving and helping to build up all local enterprises in the neighborhood where they lived. Mr. Yerkes was raised on his father's farm and is now one of the leading farmers of Wabash Twp. He owns 615 acres of fine land, well stocked and improved as a reward for his own exertions. In 1867 he married Miss Martha E. MARLATTE, daughter of Jacob and Cythia Marlatte, who came to the county in an early day. Mrs. Yerkes was born 1845. Their family consists of Emma, Jacob, Charles and Sherman.