Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 651-652 [Graves]

     JOHN C. YATES was born at Pryorsburg, Graves county, Kentucky,
the 16th of November, 1866, a son of John M. and Arena (Prince)
Yates.  The father was born in Tennessee, as was also his father,
Tirah Yates, while the mother was a native of Weakley county,
Tennessee, and was a daughter of Joshua Prince, of that
commonwealth.  Mr. and Mrs. Yates were married in Graves county,
Kentucky, where the father still resides and follows agricultural
pursuits.  The mother was called to the home beyond in November,
1900, passing away at the age of fifty-six years.  During the Civil
war Mr. Yates served as a Confederate soldier, was a Democrat in his
political affiliations, and both he and his wife were members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.
     John C. Yates was reared to the life of a farmer boy, and
received an academical education.  When eighteen years of age he
began the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. John L.
Dismukes, of Mayfield, and later became a student in the University
of Louisville, in which he was graduated in 1892.  For six and a
half years thereafter he was engaged in the practice of medicine at
Bellerton, Hickman county, and on the expiration of that period
located in Fulton, where he has gained an enviable prestige as one
of the most able and successful practitioners of medicine in the
community.  He is a member of the Southwest Kentucky Medical
Society, and his political support is given to the Democracy, while
his religious views connect him with the Methodist church.
     On the 24th of December, 1900, Dr. Yates was united in marriage
to Stella D. Hornbake, a native daughter of Kentucky.

Yates Prince Dismukes Hornbake
=
Weakley-TN Hickman-KY

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