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Stephen Burke Yates

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Birth	:	23 Oct 1876
Death	:	19 Jun 1937
Burial	:	Colusa Community Cemetery, Colusa, Colusa County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.2098950, -122.0314550
Description	:	COLUSA SUN- HERALD COLUSA CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY JUNE 19 1937 BURKE YATES BURN VICTIM DIES ACCIDENT OF JANUARY 2ND PROVES FATAL Maxwell Farmer Was Son of Early Settler in Colusa Stephen Burke Yates, prominent Maxwell farmer, whose father one of Colusa's first settlers, died at 1am today of complications arising from burns which he suffered on January 2nd 1937, more than five months ago....when a radio wire he was installing at his home came in contact with a high voltage circuit. Several months... Read More	COLUSA SUN- HERALD COLUSA CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY JUNE 19 1937 BURKE YATES BURN VICTIM DIES ACCIDENT OF JANUARY 2ND PROVES FATAL Maxwell Farmer Was Son of Early Settler in Colusa Stephen Burke Yates, prominent Maxwell farmer, whose father one of Colusa's first settlers, died at 1am today of complications arising from burns which he suffered on January 2nd 1937, more than five months ago....when a radio wire he was installing at his home came in contact with a high voltage circuit. Several months after the accident, in which Yates' daughter Miss Beatrice Yates, was painfully burned in saving her father from electricution, he underwent amputation of one leg. He was a patient at Memorial hospital, but recently, was returned to his home. His death this morning occured shortly after he was removed to an Arbuckle hospital. Burke Yates, as he was familarly known, was born at the old Yates ranch, four miles north of Colusa on the Princeton road. It is now the Adolph Fendt ranch. He would have been 61 years old next October 23rd. Yates spent the greater part of his life in Colusa county. For the last twenty years he had farmed near Maxwell. The deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs Eva Thrift Yates, two daughters, Miss Beatrice Yates of Maxwell and Mrs Walter Minges of Stockton; two grandchildren; two brothers, J. A. Yates of Alturas and L.R. Yates of Covelo, and a sister, Mrs V.A Costa of Modesto. Recently Luke R Yates provided skin from his back for a grafting operation on his brother. Funeral services will be held at 2pm Monday at McNarys Memorial Chapel with Rev. E. T. Nesbit officiating. Interment will be made in the family plot in Colusa cemetery. Buried in the family plot in Colusa Cemetery. ************************************** He was married to Eva Alene Thrift. ~Stephen is my first cousin twice removed~

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Family Members:

Parent

James Arthur Yates

(1827 - 1907)

Mary Adeline Conner Yates

(1849 - 1914)

Spouse

Eva Alene Thrift Yates

(1881 - 1979)

Siblings

Frank Roy Yates

(1878 - 1926)

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