SKETCH OF LATE DR. YEAGER

   Dr. James A. Yeager was born at Plantersville, Mississippi, March 16, 1863.  Came to Texas at the age of twenty-one, locating at Elmo in this county.  He married Mary Ida Stovall, November 2, 1890.  To them were born eight children, of whom six are now living, four girls and two boys.  One child, a girl, died in infancy, and one nearly grown died in 1912.  His mother, three sisters and three brothers, are living, only one of whom, a sister, Mrs. A. J. Parker, is living in Texas, at Elmo.  The others live in Mississippi.
   He entered the Memphis hospital medical college and was a graduate of that school.  He practiced his profession at Elmo until July, 1898, when he moved to Rose Hill, where he has resided ever since.  He died December 4, and was buried at the Rose Hill cemetery on December 5.
   He was a member of the Baptist church, a member of the Kaufman lodge of Odd Fellows and of the Kaufman lodge of Modern Order of Praetorians.  Rev. W. H. Wynn, pastor of the Baptist church of Terrell, conducted the religious ceremony at the cemetery, after which he was buried by the Odd Fellows according to their burial ritual.
   Dr. Yeager was a typical country doctor, giving of his very life to those whom he served.  He will be missed by many in the Rose Hill community, where he resided so long and practiced his profession among his neighbors and friends.  Possibly the greatest thing that can be said of him is that he was an honest man.