The following was posted at one of the Rootsweb County sites. I received permission to post it here. Maggie *************************** I'm not related to this person, just wanted to share this hoping it might help some else. _______________________________________________ Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren and Pulaski Counties, Indiana, Illustrated, Volume 1, 1899 pp. 926-928 DAVID YOST The YOST family springs from old colonial stock of Virginia and German ancestry, who were Lutherans. ANTHONY YOST, the grandfather of DAVID, was a farmer in Rockingham County, Virginia, and his children were JOHN, JACOB, ANTHONY, ABRAHAM, WILLIAM; MAGDALENE, who married WILLIAM GLADDEN and settled in Wea prairie, Tippecanoe County; a daughter who married MR. BOWERS and located in Preble County, Ohio; another daughter, who became the wife of a man named WIKLES; and still another, who became MRS. BECK. ANTHONY YOST settled at an early day in Preble County, Ohio, as a pioneer, cleared a tract of land in the forest and passed his remaining days there, as a farmer. He lived to be a man of venerable age, dying at his home in Preble County. JACOB YOST, the father of our subject, was born in 1805, in Rockingham County, Virginia, and when young went to Preble County, Ohio, where he was brought up a farmer and also learned the distilling business. In the county mentioned he married RACHEL FOUTS, a native of North Carolina. MR. YOST continued to reside in Preble County, for a number of years after his marriage, and then emigrated to Indiana, settling in Tippecanoe County, on the Wea prairie near the GLADDENS, about 1839. Next he purchased land on the Wildcat Creek, in Carroll County, and finally owned about two hundred acres. He did not settle on the land just alluded to, but continued to follow the business of distilling, settling about 1843 on land near where his grandson AMOS now lives, in Perry Township, when there were three distilleries in the neighborhood. His children were: WILLIAM, born in 1827; ISAAC, in 1829; JAMES, about 1831; DAVID, January 17, 1832; CATHERINE, who died an infant; JACOB; LEVI, who died young; MARY, JOHN and GEORGE. The first six were born in Preble county, Ohio, and the others in this county. MR. YOST was an industrious and upright man who reared his children to good habits. He died in August, 1854, in Perry township, this county, at the age of fifty-five years. DAVID YOST, the father of our subject, was born January 17, 1832, in Preble county, Ohio, and was seven years old when brought by his parents to Tippecanoe county. He received no school education, but learned to read and write by his own energies, while he was brought up among the typical pioneers of this great state. Throughout the most of his life, especially in his younger days, he was employed in clearing land. At the age of twenty-two years, in 1855, in Perry township, he married MARY J. WEAVER, who was born March 7, 1839, in that township, a daughter of JOHN and CATHERINE (HOMER) WEAVER. JOHN WEAVER was born in Ohio, of sturdy Pennsylvania-Dutch stock from Montgomery county, Ohio. He moved to Tippecanoe county in pioneer times, locating on land in Perry township. His father, JACOB WEAVER, also came to Perry township and built a mill on the south fork of the Wildcat, and this was one of the earliest mills in Perry township. JOHN WEAVER became a prosperous and substantial farmer, owning at the time of his death about two hundred acres of land. His children were SAMUEL, CHARLES, MARY J. and JAMES. He died at the age of about fifty-five years, a member of the "Dunkard" church. After his marriage DAVID YOST resided in Perry township, bought land in the green woods in Ross Township, Clinton County, Indiana, where he cleared a goodly farm of eighty acres, and completed a comfortable residence with inviting premises. By his first wife his children were CHARLES, WISLEY and JOHN. The mother of these children died in 1858, three years after marriage at the early age of nineteen years. She was a young woman of noble character. In 1865 MR. YOST married, in Darke County, Ohio, MRS. SARAH (WEYBRIGHT) LUCAS, the widow of GEORGE LUCAS, and by this marriage there were five children: AARON, AMOS, DAVID, RACHEL and NANCY. MRS. YOST died March 21, 1877. MR. YOST is a member of the German Baptist church, as were also both his wives. He has always been a hard-working farmer, and, in relation to his fellow-citizens, zealous in good works. AMOS YOST, one of the sons above mentioned and also one of the subjects of this sketch, was born in Clinton county, Ohio, April 27, 1867, brought up on a farm and received a common-school education an also a normal education at the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, and also a collegiate training at Purdue University, near Lafayette, this state. After quitting the halls of scholastic learning, he began teaching a public school, in Ross Township, Clinton County, this state, in 1890, and continued the successful prosecution of his profession there for five years. In 1896 he began teaching in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County where he is at present a well known educator. He purchased forty acres of good farming land, settling upon it in 1895, and here he has a pleasant home. He is a young man of good education and intellectual ability, having a good reputation throughout the county as an efficient educator and being uniformly successful in his school work. Politically he is a Republican. He was married in Clinton County, Indiana, August 13, 1893, to MYRTLE WOODRUFF. MR. YOST's children are VELDA R., born September 11, 1894 ; and LILA BERNICE, born February 12, 1898. CHARLES W. YOST, another son of DAVID YOST, and a patron of this work, was born May 13, 1856, in Carroll County, Indiana, received the usual country school education and has always been a farmer. At the age of twenty-four years he married, in Perry Township, February 17, 1881, VIOLA MAY WARWICK, who was born in this township, in 1860, a daughter of ROBERT and ELIZABETH (STALEY) WARWICK . After marriage Mr. YOST occupied rented land for several years, and in 1892 moved to his present farm of one hundred and fifty acres, well improved. His children are CLARENCE, BERTHA and EVA M. Politically he is a Republican. He is an honored citizen of the township, of which he has been trustee three years and is a practical, straightforward honorable citizen. AARON YOST, still another son of DAVID YOST, is a practical farmer and respected citizen of Perry township, born in Clinton County, Indiana, October 21, 1865. He received a common-school education, taught school two winters in Perry Towship, and October 18, 1889, married RENA WARWICK, also a native of this township, born April 28, 1870, on the WARWICK homestead, a daughter of GEORGE W. and CATHERINE (BARR) WARWICK. After his marriage MR. YOST continued to reside on the WARWICK homestead, and is well known as a straight forward and practical farmer. His children are DALE M., born April 22, 1890 and VERNE W., born November 15, 1894. Professor JOHN YOST, another son of DAVID, has passed all his professional life in the educational field, and is now a resident of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin.