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Henry P. Yeary, a native of Lee County, Va., was born in 1833, and is the tenth in the family of fourteen children born to Henry and Susannah (Smith) Yeary, natives of Lee County, Va., and of German and Welsh descent, respectively. The paternal grandfather was a native of Saxony, Germany. In 1841 the parents moved to Arkansas, where the father died in 1857, in his sixty-fourth year; he was a soldier of the War of 1812, a farmer by occupation, and a Democrat in politics. The mother died in Crawford County, Mo., in 1871. Henry P. was reared to the pursuit of farming, and in 1861, with three brothers, he volunteered in Company G, Phelps’ Regiment, Missouri Infantry, Union army, and served six months, participating in the battle of Pea Ridge; he afterward served for several months in the Enrolled Militia. He was one of a party of thirty-eight Union men who were refugees to Missouri upon the breaking out of the war. Since 1862 Mr. Yeary has lived on his present farm, which consists of 396 acres. In 1864 he married Mrs. Millie J. O’Neal, who was born in 1830. Three children have blessed this union, viz.: Milton B., Henry D. and Laura J. Mrs. Yeary has five children by her first husband, viz.: John C., Amanda, Mary, James and Edwin. Mr. Yeary is a Republican in politics, and has been a resident of Crawford County for the past twenty-five years.