Elizabeth Yeary [04220] Details

Elizabeth Yeary
b.1771 - Lee Co, Va
d.1845 28 Dec - Lee Co, Va
----- Parents -----
Henry Yeary
Elizabeth Corxall
----- Siblings -----
Henry Yeary, Jr
William Yeary
Elizabeth Yeary
Mary Polly Yeary
----- Marriages -----
m01. 1789 17 Feb - Lee Co, Va + Moses Ball

DAR record shows 29 DEC 1845 for death date. 
  
Burial place is Chadwell station church, Lee Co., VA. 
  
The Story of Elizabeth YEARY BALL's Capture by the Indians. One night 
Jemina Yeary (born
1776) went to milk the cow. She saw an Indian hiding behind a log. She 
pretended she didn't see
him, milked her cow, and went back to the house where she told her 
sister, Elizabeth, and an old
Negro slave. (Elizabeth was Moses BALL's wife). They could hear the 
Indians whistling to one
another and giving signals. They broke down the door, killed the old 
slave, scalped him and put the
scalp in a belt. They found Elizabeth and captured her. She recognized 
the scalp they carried as that
of the old Negro. Jemina had hidden in the chimney and the Indians did 
not find her. The Indians
traveled with Elizabeth for three or four days. She broke off twigs from 
the trees and bushes as she
went along the road. Another of the slaves had tried to follow her but 
was found and killed. They
would travel by day and at night they would tie her. One night she got 
loose and ran away. They
followed her, and once got so close, that she hid in a hollow log. They 
looked everywhere, even
stood on the log, but failed to look inside. She stayed in that log for a 
day and a night, then picked
up her trail of broken twigs until she came to a cross-roads and she 
couldn't tell which road to take.
A little bird flew down, twittered and flew away. She went in the 
direction that the bird had flown
and soon met her husband, Moses BALL, and her brothers who were coming to 
hunt for her. She
was a sister of Henry who fought in the Revolutionary War. 


	Elizabeth Yeary b.1771 - Lee Co, Va d.1845 28 Dec - Lee Co, Va ----- Parents ----- Henry Yeary Elizabeth Corxall ----- Siblings ----- Henry Yeary, Jr William Yeary Elizabeth Yeary Mary Polly Yeary ----- Marriages ----- m01. 1789 17 Feb - Lee Co, Va + Moses Ball DAR record shows 29 DEC 1845 for death date. Burial place is Chadwell station church, Lee Co., VA. The Story of Elizabeth YEARY BALL's Capture by the Indians. One night Jemina Yeary (born 1776) went to milk the cow. She saw an Indian hiding behind a log. She pretended she didn't see him, milked her cow, and went back to the house where she told her sister, Elizabeth, and an old Negro slave. (Elizabeth was Moses BALL's wife). They could hear the Indians whistling to one another and giving signals. They broke down the door, killed the old slave, scalped him and put the scalp in a belt. They found Elizabeth and captured her. She recognized the scalp they carried as that of the old Negro. Jemina had hidden in the chimney and the Indians did not find her. The Indians traveled with Elizabeth for three or four days. She broke off twigs from the trees and bushes as she went along the road. Another of the slaves had tried to follow her but was found and killed. They would travel by day and at night they would tie her. One night she got loose and ran away. They followed her, and once got so close, that she hid in a hollow log. They looked everywhere, even stood on the log, but failed to look inside. She stayed in that log for a day and a night, then picked up her trail of broken twigs until she came to a cross-roads and she couldn't tell which road to take. A little bird flew down, twittered and flew away. She went in the direction that the bird had flown and soon met her husband, Moses BALL, and her brothers who were coming to hunt for her. She was a sister of Henry who fought in the Revolutionary War.