WI BIO - Kenosha Co - YAW, Pardon

History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western 
Historical, 1879, p 735

Pardon YAW, farmer, Section 27; P. O. Salem [Kenosha County, Wisconsin], was 
born in 1811 in Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts, and is now over 
sixty-seven years of age. He lived in Massachusetts thirty-one years, came 
West in 1843, and located in Salem Township, where he now resides. He owns a 
farm of 300 acres valued at $12,000, on which is an orchard of about 200 
well-selected fruit trees. The farm is well improved and well stocked.

In November 1839 at Ashfield [Franklin County], Massachusetts, Mr. Pardon YAW 
married Melina W. ELMER, also a native of Massachusetts. Mrs. YAW was 
formerly a teacher. [Pardon YAW] is a member of the Baptist Church. It is 
worthy of note that Mr. YAW was one of a family of twenty children by one 
mother; twelve boys and eight girls. Three brothers of Pardon YAW died in 
the Union army.

Submitted by: Cathy Kubly