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- 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.
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