Ancestry of
William Fishback

17th Governor of Arkansas

William Yates

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• • Great-grandfather of William Fishback — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • William Yates 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Randolph   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1745 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Gloucester County, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Dec 1789 
  • Death Location:
  • Dinwiddie County, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Isham Poythress
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Jun 1777 
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  • Child:

  Benjamin Poythress Yates (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Most published sources state that Col. William Yates married after the death of his first wife 9n 1784, Elizabeth Booth in 1785. However, it would appear that the will of his first wife was written in 1790 indicating his first wife did not die in 1784.

• Additional marriages for William Yates

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Booth
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Sep 1785

• Sources for William Yates

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestors #A129498.
  • ² Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 5, Randolph-Zouch, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1981), 916-917.
  • ³ Tyler, Lyon G., ed., William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 14, Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson (1906), 211-213, Will of spouse Anne Isham Gordon.