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Pvt Benjamin Ezekiel Brandon Yates

Birth	:	13 Mar 1843 Culpeper County, Virginia, USA
Death	:	5 Mar 1929 Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
Burial	:	Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion, Wright County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.7313995, -93.7069016
Plot	:	New Addition, Lot 50, Site 4
Description	:	He was a tenant farmer, a humble life that kept his family searching for new fields to plow. Elizabeth, his second wife, much younger, called him Mr. Yates. Benjamin grew up in a family of 21 children. His parents never owned slaves. He went to war, he would maintain, for home and honor. At age 18, Yates borrowed horses to cart the bleeding and dying from First Manassas. When he turned 19, he enlisted in Culpeper as a member of the Little Fork Rangers. His first major action came at Seven Pines, outside Richmond, another Confederate victory. Later that year,... Read More	He was a tenant farmer, a humble life that kept his family searching for new fields to plow. Elizabeth, his second wife, much younger, called him Mr. Yates. Benjamin grew up in a family of 21 children. His parents never owned slaves. He went to war, he would maintain, for home and honor. At age 18, Yates borrowed horses to cart the bleeding and dying from First Manassas. When he turned 19, he enlisted in Culpeper as a member of the Little Fork Rangers. His first major action came at Seven Pines, outside Richmond, another Confederate victory. Later that year, 1862, Yates was shot through either the leg or the neck; he never spoke of the wound and service records are contradictory. Whatever the injury, it was recorded that Yates declined treatment until the day's fighting was finished. He would ride on through many of the major battles of the war, including Second Manassas and Brandy Station. He survived Gettysburg. Finally, in late 1864, Yates, one of his brothers and five other Little Fork Rangers were captured at Fisher's Hill in the Shenandoah Valley. Yates buried his gun and sword before he could be taken. He spent eight months in a Maryland prison camp. At one point, the commanding Union officer asked Yates how to get to Culpeper, and Yates told the man to get there the best way he could, because he wasn't going to tell. Another time, he had a chance to take part in a breakout by swimming across the Potomac but declined. He couldn't swim. Yates won his freedom when the South lost the war. He took a boat to Richmond, where he encountered a former captain who had sent him some tobacco to sell in prison. Yates tried to give the captain his money, but the officer told him to keep it for a new start in life. With those funds in his pocket, Yates and two others began walking along the railroad tracks toward Fredericksburg. They found a handcar chained to a tree, broke it loose and rode as far as a burned-out bridge. They continued walking to Culpeper. Yates was 22, and he was home to stay. The fury of war gave way to domestic languor. Yates married and fathered six children. His wife died, he remarried and fathered four more. He was described as 5' 6.0", light complexion, blue eyes, brown hair. THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT - January 9, 1995 Sent His first wife was Susan Mary Hudson who was born in Culpeper County and died March 2, 1885, in Culpeper County, VA at age 33. They were married 21 May 1874 in Culpeper County, VA. Five of their children were Bessie, Aubrey, Maggie, Josephine, and Charles. He married his second wife Elizabeth Brown on 13 January 1892, in Fauquier County, and their four children were Osa, Mary Lena, John, and Bryan. Contributor: TwinFoley (48691375) •

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Pvt Benjamin Ezekiel Brandon Yates's memorial is located at: Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion, Wright County, USA.
When did Pvt Benjamin Ezekiel Brandon Yates death?
Pvt Benjamin Ezekiel Brandon Yates death on 5 Mar 1929 in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
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Latitude: 42.7313995
Longitude: -93.7069016

Family Members:

Spouse

Elizabeth Adams Brown Yates

(1866 - 1948)

Children

Aubrey Booten Yates

(1878 - 1951)

Maggie Mae Yates deNicola

(1879 - 1947)

Charles Henry Yates

(1880 - 1957)

Josephine R “Josie” Yates Lindamood

(1886 - unknow)

(1893 - 1951)

(1896 - 1990)

(1898 - 1997)

(1900 - 1989)

Flowers:

Co. D, 4th Va Cavalry

Left by Anonymous on 31 Mar 2007

Your sacrifice has not been forgotten!

Left by Anonymous on 01 Nov 2010

Rest In Peace

Left by Anonymous on 08 Oct 2014

Left by Anonymous on 24 May 2015

" One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. "

Left by Anonymous on 30 Aug 2015

My great, great grandfather. Katherine Lindamood was my grandmother.

Left by Anonymous on 14 Nov 2018

Left by Anonymous on 18 Mar 2019

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