1925 Biography - M Yandell
M. J. Yandell came here from Kentucky and married Lucinda E VanCleve, and settled on a farm in the Ozark Neighborhood. He was nineteen years old and she was fifteen. They raised nine children, namely Mrs. L. L. Smoot, Lewis P., Mrs. W. G. Lambert, Mrs. H. A. Dunn, Maddison, Mrs. C. M. Jacobson, Edgar, Bessie, and Grace. Mr. Yandell died several years ago and most of the family have left the county.
Extracted 08 Feb 2017 by Norma Hass from 1925 A History of Johnson County, Illinois, by Mrs. P. T. Chapman, page 472.