hmtl5 Sigel Morton Yeazel b. 10 Aug 1884 Homer, Champaign County, Illinois d. 24 Apr 1948 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois: Hedges Genealogy
Sigel Morton Yeazel

Sigel Morton Yeazel

Male 1884 - 1948  (63 years)

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  • Name Sigel Morton Yeazel 
    Born 10 Aug 1884  Homer, Champaign County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Died 24 Apr 1948  Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Buried GAR Cemetery, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Person ID I1896  Hedges
    Last Modified 12 Sep 2023 

    Father Adam Wallace Yeazel,   b. 20 Dec 1851, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Mar 1942, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Mother Sarah Amelia Cessna,   b. 11 Feb 1856, Stark County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Sep 1953, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 97 years) 
    Married 4 Jul 1877  Vermilion County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F71  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 10 Aug 1884 - Homer, Champaign County, Illinois Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 24 Apr 1948 - Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - GAR Cemetery, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Yeazel, Sigel
    Yeazel, Sigel

  • Notes 
    • Siegel Morton Yeazell was born in 1884 to Adam Wallace Yeazell and Sarah Amelia Cessna, in Homer, Champaign County, IL. Sarah Cessna was the daughter of William Cessna and Sarah Jane Hawkins. Adam W. Yeazell was the son of Adam Yeazell and Mariah Crabill.
      Siegel married Edith Leona Wagner, daughter of Peter John Wagner and Elizabeth Loeffler, of Ogden, Champaign County, IL.

      Sigel Yeazel Dies Week Following Operation
      The Homer Enterprise
      Thursday, April 29, 1948, page 1

      Sigel M. Yeazel, 63, retired Homer farmer and trucker, died Saturday afternoon in Illinois Research hospital, Chicago, where he had been a patient for two weeks. He underwent a major operation a week before his death and appeared to be recovering. Mrs. Yeazel and son, Glen, had visited with him Wednesday and Mrs. Yeazel planned to return Sunday. Funeral services were conducted at 3 p. m. Tuesday in Homer Methodist church with Rev. R. E. Buford officiating. Burial was in GAR cemetery. Mr. Yeazel was born Aug. 10, 1884, son of Wallace and Sarah Cessna Yeazel, on a farm north of Homer. He was married to Edith Waggoner, who died in November, 1918. He later married Hattie Blacker. They moved to town about 15 years ago from a farm southeast of Homer, and he had been a trucker since then. Surviving are his wife, Hattie; three children by his first marriage, Mrs. Nellie Anderson, Homer, and Mrs. Helen Bryant and Glen Yeazel, both of St. Joseph; his mother, Mrs. Sarah Yeazel, 92, Homer; 13 grandchildren; three step-children, Mrs. Violet Yeazel, St. Joseph; Mrs. Dorothy Atkinson, Indianola, and Floyd Blacker, Champaign. He also leaves two brothers, Troy, Rockwell City, Iowa, and Rolla, Fairmount; and five sisters, Mrs. Nellie Johnson, Homer; Mrs. Ada Hillard, Homer; Mrs. Mabel Stayton, Ogden; Mrs. Bertha Hartley, Decatur, and Mrs. Mertie Clester, Fairmount.
      Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society.
      [1, 3]

  • Sources 
    1. [S6] Find a Grave.

    2. [S5] 1900 US census.

    3. [S9] Obituary.

    4. [S51] Illinois Marriages: 1851-1900.