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I don't remember the name but a family member of Yancy's told me about him being an outlaw and that he had married twice.
Below is what I have on him and Ira.
Linda
Descendants of Yancy Young Eaker
Generation No. 1
1. YANCY YOUNG7 EAKER (WILLIAM ARMSTRONG6, MICHAEL5, JOHN4, JOHN (HANS)
PETER3, JOHN PETER2, PETER1 EGGER) was born 22 Mar 1870 in Field Creek,
Llano Co. TX, and died 06 Jun 1949 in Eden, Concho Co. TX. He married (1)
DONA LEE GRAHAM, daughter of JOHN GRAHAM and EMELINE NORRIS. She was born
Mar 1881 in TX. He married (2) RUBIE BERNICE LOCKLEAR Abt. 1920 in Eden,
Concho Co. TX, daughter of JOHN LOCKLEAR and MARTHA COCHRAN. She was born 19
Jul 1900 in Llano, Llano Co. TX, and died 14 Sep 1956 in Eden, Concho Co.
TX.
Notes for YANCY YOUNG EAKER:
Note:
Was nicknamed sixgun because he was an outlaw. The brothers rode their
horses into the jail and yanked Young out of jail one time.
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Llano County TX 1880 census lists Young Eaker 10 yrs,born TX
Llano County TX 1900 census lists 30 yrs, born Mar 1870 Texas, Farmer, name
Young Y. Eaker.
Concho County TX 1910 census lists 40 yrs, born TX, name Y.Y. Eaker, married
14yrs. Bryan Co. OK
1920 census lists 49 yrs, born Texas, house carpenter, name Y.Y. Eaker
1930 Concho Co. OK census lists 60 yrs, born TX, Widower, Roomer, Contracter
Carpenter, name Y.Y. Eaker, enumerated in household of Dick & Etta Farmer.
Age at 1st marriage 21yrs.
Dona Lee Graham Eaker
1880 census wasn’t born.
1900 census lists 19 yrs, born Mar 1881, name Dona P. Eaker, married 4 yrs,
2CH 2LV, next door to father & mother.
1910 census lists 29 yrs, born TX, name Dona Eaker, married 14 yrs, 4CH 4LV,
next door to father & mother.
1920 census lists 39 yrs, born Texas, Clerk Dry Goods Store, name Lee D.
Eaker.
1920 census Ira C. Eaker the son is in the military serving in the
Phillipines the other 3 boys are still living with Dona & Y. in Bryan Co. OK
and all are employed.
1930 census no Eakers living in Bryan Co. OK. Some of the children had moved
to Oklahoma City, OK.
More About YANCY YOUNG EAKER:
Occupation: Outlaw
Information for children came from http://www.mlsimons.com/famhistory/family.php?famid=F11409
Children of YANCY EAKER and DONA GRAHAM are:
i. IRA CLARENCE8 EAKER, b. 13 Apr 1896, Field Creek, Llano Co. TX; d. 06 Aug
1987, Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Camp Springs,
Maryland; m. (1) LEAH CHASE, Abt. 1930; m. (2) RUTH HUFF APPERSON, 23 Nov
1931; b. 08 Dec 1908; d. 13 Dec 1995.
Notes for IRA CLARENCE EAKER:
EAKER, IRA CLARENCE (1896-1987).
Ira Clarence Eaker, aviation pioneer and United States Air Force general,
was born on April 13, 1896, at Field Creek, Texas, the eldest of five boys
born to Young Yancy and Dona Lee (Graham) Eaker. In 1906 the family moved to
Concho County, where they spent three years in the rural community of Hills
before moving to a farm a mile outside of Eden. They moved to southeastern
Oklahoma in 1912 and returned to Eden ten years later. Ira attended public
school at Hills, in Eden, and in Kenefic, Oklahoma. He graduated from
Southeastern State Teachers College (now Southeastern Oklahoma State
University) at Durant, Oklahoma, and entered the United States Army in 1917.
Eaker was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Infantry Section, Officers
Reserve Corps, on August 15, 1917, and assigned to the Sixty-fourth Infantry
at Fort Bliss, Texas. He received a similar commission in the regular army
on October 26, 1917. His aviation experience began in March 1918, when he
was directed to attend ground school at the University of Texas in Austin
and flight training at Kelly Field at San Antonio. He received his pilot
rating and a promotion to first lieutenant on July 17, 1918. After training,
he was sent to Rockwell Field, California, where he met Col. H. H. "Hap"
Arnold and Maj. Carl A. "Tooey" Spaatz, two men with whom he had a close
military relationship for the rest of his life. In July 1919 he was
appointed commander of the Second Aero Squadron and sent to the Philippines
for a two-year tour. In 1920 he was reassigned as commander of the Third
Aero Squadron and promoted to captain. Upon return to the United States in
1921 he was assigned to Mitchel Field, New York; while there, he attended
Columbia Law School. He subsequently spent three years to the staff of Maj.
Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of air service, in Washington, D.C.
Captain Eaker was one of ten pilots chosen to make the Pan American Goodwill
Flight in 1926. During the flight both members of one crew died in a crash.
Eaker and his copilot were the only team to complete the entire 23,000-mile
itinerary, which included stops in twenty-three countries. The flight left
San Antonio on December 21 and ended at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C.,
where President Calvin Coolidge presented the pilots with the Distinguished
Flying Cross, a new award authorized by Congress just a few months earlier.
In 1929 Eaker, with Tooey Spaatz and Elwood R. Quesada (both of whom were
later generals), flew a Fokker tri-motor named the Question Mark for 150
hours, 40 minutes, and 15 seconds, shuttling between Los Angeles and San
Diego, refueling with a hose lowered from a Douglas C-1. They set an
endurance record that endured for many years. In 1930 Eaker flew the first
transcontinental flight that depended solely on aerial refueling. Eaker was
promoted to major in 1935. Beginning on June 2, 1936, he flew blind under a
hood from Mitchel Field, New York, to March Field, Riverside, California.
Maj. William E. Kepner (who also became a general) flew alongside in this
experiment in instrument flight as a safety observer. He stated that Eaker
"was under the hood and flying blind" the entire time except for eight
take-offs and landings.
During the middle to late 1930s Eaker attended the Air Corps Tactical School
at Maxwell Field, Alabama, and the Army Command and General Staff School at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He also served on the Air Staff in Washington. He
was promoted to full colonel in December 1941 and to brigadier general in
January 1942, when he was assigned to England to form and command the Eighth
Bomber Command. He was instrumental in the development and application of
daylight precision bombing in the European Theater. This tactic was a major
factor in the defeat of the Germans. In December 1942 Eaker became commander
of the Eighth Air Force in England. On September 13, 1943, he received
promotion to lieutenant general, and on October 15, 1943, he assumed overall
command of both American air forces in the United Kingdom, the Eighth and
the Ninth. He took over as commander of the joint Mediterranean Allied Air
Forces on January 15, 1944. With 321,429 officers and men and 12,598
aircraft, MAAF was the world's largest air force. On March 22, 1945, Eaker
was transferred back to Washington to become deputy chief of the army air
force under Gen. H. H. Arnold. In that position, representing the air force,
he transmitted the command from President Harry Truman to General Spaatz,
who was then commanding the Pacific Air Forces, to drop the atomic bomb on
Japan. Eaker announced his plans to retire from the army in mid-June 1947,
saying that he felt he could do more to provide security for the United
States out of uniform.
After retirement he was associated with Hughes Aircraft from 1947 to 1957.
In 1957 he became a corporate director of Douglas Aircraft Company, a post
he held until 1961, when he returned to Hughes as a consultant, with the
freedom to pursue a long-desired goal of being a journalist. He had already
coauthored three books with H. H. Arnold: This Flying Game (1936), Winged
Warfare (1941), and Army Fliers (1942). In 1964 he began a newspaper column
in the San Angelo Standard Times that continued for eighteen years and was
syndicated by Copley News Services in 700 newspapers. In 1974 he transferred
to the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. He wrote from the point of view of a
military man on security matters. Between 1957 and 1981, 329 of his articles
appeared in military periodicals. In 1972 he became the founding president
of the United States Strategic Institute.
Among his more than fifty decorations were the Congressional Gold Medal, the
Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Distinguished Service
Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Order of the Partisan Star (First Class),
the Silver Star, and the Wright Trophy; he was also made a Knight of the
British Empire. He was promoted from lieutenant general to general by an act
of Congress in 1985.
Eaker married Leah Chase about 1930; the couple had no children, and the
marriage ended in divorce the year it began. On November 23, 1931, he
married Ruth Huff Apperson. General Eaker died on August 6, 1987, at Andrews
Air Force Base, Maryland, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with
full military honors. He was survived by his wife.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 6, 1987. James Parton, "Air
Force Spoken Here": General Ira Eaker and the Command of the Air (Bethesda,
Maryland: Adler and Adler, 1986). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History
Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Art Leatherwood
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"Air Force Spoken Here" documents the colorful and important career of
General Ira C. Eaker. The author is James Parton, former World War II
Executive Officer to General Eaker.
James Parton "Air Force Spoken Here" General Ira Eaker and the Command of
the Air
Authors: James Parton; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL
Abstract: It was my good fortune to land on General Eaker's staff in England
very early in World War II--May 1942. Initially in intelligence, I became
his aide and confidant throughout the war and then his friend and associate
in many matters during the subsequent years. The closeness of our
relationship as well as his gift for cloaking human sentiment with sardonic
humor are evident in his reply when I asked him in 1950 if he would be best
man at my wedding: "Jimmy, since you were my aide for almost four years it
seems only fair that I should be yours for a few hours." Thirty-three years
later Lt. Gen. John B. McPherson, then president of the Air Force Historical
Foundation, of which I am a trustee, surprised me with the suggestion that I
write Eaker's biography. Since I had given up the hard and more gregarious
duties of a publisher, I was dubious at first. But I agreed because I
concluded that Eaker richly deserves a biography both to commemorate his
career as a remarkable commander and as America's most articulate spokesman
for the responsible use of air power.
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Ira Clarence Eaker
General, United States Air Force
Commanded US Air Forces in Europe in WWII, helped establish USAF as separate
service.
He died at Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Camp
Springs, Maryland. He was 91 years old and lived in Washington, DC. The
cause of death was not announced pending an autopsy that was described as
routine, but a spokesman at medical center said yesterday that he had been
ill for some time with heart ailment.
He had retired from the United States Air Force as a Lieutenant General in
1947 and until late 1970s was a business executive and syndicated newspaper
columnist. In 1985 President Reagan, with the approval of Congress, bestowed
on him 4th star of full General in recognition of services to the nation.
"Few men can equal his great stature as an air pioneer - we owe him our
gratitude for his contributions to the Air Force and the nation," Air Force
Chief-of-Staff, General Larry Welch, said in a statement at Pentago
The son of a Texas tenant farmer, he earned his wings in 1918 and became one
of nation's aviation pioneers, setting a world record in 1929 by staying
aloft for nearly a week by refueling in air. He later made the first "blind"
transcontinental flight entirely with instruments. With Generals William
(Billy) Mitchell, James H. Doolittle, H.H. (Hap) Arnold and other major
aviation figures between the two world wars, was a leader of the fight to
establish air power as key element in nation's strategic arsenal. During
1919-22, while stationed in Philippines, continued his studies at the
University of the Philippines, advancing to Captain in July 1920, and in
1922, while at Michel Field, New York, he took law courses at Columbia
University. From 1924 to 1926 was in office of chief of Air Service.
But it was as Commander of air forces in the European Theater in WWII that
he made his name. He commanded the famed 8th Air Force in Britain in 1942
and 1943, commanded allied air forces in Mediterranean in 1944 and 1945. In
the final months of war, he was named Deputy Commander of Army Fir Forces
and chief of the air staff in Washington, DC. In his Flying Fortress, the
Yankee Doodle, Eaker, a husky, square-jawed cigar-smoking pilot with a Texas
drawl, flew many missions over Europe and into Germany, and personally led
first US B-17 bomber strike against German occupation forces in France,
bombing of Rouen, Aug 17, 1942. In Jun 1944, after being trans to
Mediterranean, he flew the first bombing raid from Italy into Germany,
landing in Soviet Union after striking factory and oil installations and
other military targets. He was a key proponent of the precision daylight
bombing that attacked much of Germany's industrial war production. Fearing
heavy losses, Allied leaders were skeptical of the tactic.
He took his case directly to Winston Churchill and obtained permission to
hit key targets by day. At the Casablanca conference of allied leaders in
early 1943, daylight precision bombing became a basic element of Allied
strategy, and much of the credit was given to him. In service in Britain, he
also developed plan by which enemy targets were bombed virtually around
clock, with US B-17s striking by day and RAF bombers attacking by night.
Born at Field Creek, Texas, Apri1 l3, 1896, he graduated from Southeastern
Normal School, Durant, Oklahoma, and entered the Army in 1917. Though an
enlisted man, was soon admitted to officers training program and by year's
end was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry. He did not leave the
US during WWI, but transferred to what then was nation's air force, the
Aviation Section of Army Signal Corps, and, after training at Austin and
Kelly Field, Texas, received his pilot's wings in October 1918.
In 1926, a Captain, he was second-in-command of 2,000-mile Pan American
goodwill tour by Army planes that circled Central and South America. Three
years later, he piloted Army's "Question Mark," establishing world endurance
record by remaining aloft more than 150 hours in a series of pioneering
airborne refueling operations. A year later, made the first
trans-continental flight using the same refueling techniques and several
years afterward crossed the continent in an all-instrument flight on which
he did not look out of cockpit. Amid these and other exploits, recd a series
of promotions and named a 2-star gen just as WWII began.
Though he retired June 15, 1947, a month before the United States air Force
officially became separate branch of military service, he helped plan that
change and was credited by colleagues with being instrumental in achieving
it.
He received the Silver Star, Distingusihed Flying Cross and other US
military honors, including a special Gold Medal from Congress in 1979, and
was decorated by Britain, France, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Italy, Poland,
Brazil, Chile and Peru. After ret, was officer of Hughes Tool Co and Hughes
Aircraft Co until 1957.
He was then a Vice President of Douglas Aircraft Company for many years. For
18 years in the 1960s and 1970s, wrote column on military affairs that was
syndicated to 180 newspapers.
With General Arnold, he was teh co-author of 3 books, "The Flying Game,"
published 1936, "Winged Warfare," in 1937, and "Army Fever," in 1942.
A book about him, "Air Force Spoken Here: General Ira Eaker and the Command
of the Air," by James Parton, appeared earlier this year.
He was survived by wife, the former Ruth Huff Apperson. The funeral is
scheduled for Ft Myer, Virginia. One of the founding pioneers of modern
concepts of strategic air power, inducted into Aviation Hall of Fame,
Dayton, OH, in 1970. Apr 13, 1896-Aug 6, 1987.
He is buried in Section 30 of Arlington National Cemetery. Beside him lies
his wife, Ruth Apperton Eaker.
More About IRA CLARENCE EAKER:
Burial: Arlington National Cemetery
Divorced: Abt. 1930, Leah Chase
Military service: General in the Air Force
More About RUTH HUFF APPERSON:
Burial: Arlington National Cemetery
ii. HENRY GRADY EAKER, b. 18 Apr 1899, Llano Co. TX; d. Mar 1982, Tulsa,
Tulsa Co. OK.
iii. CLAUDE LESLIE EAKER, b. 10 Aug 1901, TX; d. Jul 1980, Watsonville,
Santa Cruz Co. CA.
iv. CARL HOMER EAKER, b. 28 Jan 1910, Concho Co. TX; d. Sep 1974, Los
Angeles Co. CA.
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