Possibly born Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York
They were about twelve miles from the home of George Zeh.
Eleanor See (1712 Silesia, Germany-18 Feb 1783 Lincoln County Kentuckv) daughter of George Ludwig and Margaret (Judv) See of Silesia. Germanv

26 Apr 1780: Matthias Yoakum 1000A, Bk1 p23, Watercourse, Chaplins Fork. Jillson, Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds, Lincoln County, Kentucky, entries

29 Jan 1780• will written

18 Feb 1783: will probated. Lincoln County, Kentucky, Will Bk A, p148. Harold M Yoakum: His place of residence at the time of signing his "X to his will was in the then named county of Botecourt, in what was then a part of Virginia before it became a part of the later formed state of West Virginia.

History of Grant and Hardy County, West Virginia, pVl: George Yokum, John Yokum, and Mathias Yokum were among the first settlers.

Will mentions son Felty and unmarried son George

Will of Matthias Yoakum (Will Book A, page 148, Lincoln County, Kentucky):

"In the name of God Amen. this the 29th dav of Januarv Anno Dom 1780 Mathias Yoakam of Botetourt Countv Virginia, being sick and weak of body, but of pertect mind and memory, and - calling to mind the mortality of my body, and knowning that is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament, in the manner an form as low, and first I recommend my sour to God who gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a Christian manner at the discretion of mv Executors.

Imprinis: and as touching such wordy goods wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with this life, I give devise and dispose of it in the following manner and form - And first to my beloved Wife Eleanor I give and bequeath all my Household Goods and furniture during her natural life and also…to her Heirs forever - And to mv son Felty Yoakum’s oldest son George his Heir, I give and bequeath one dollar. And whereas I have already given what I intended to mv other Children who are all married Excepting mv voungest son George Youkam. to him I give and bequeath all my land and Improvements, and also all my Horses, mares and Cattle - excepting what is already
bequeathed to mv Wife whom hers to maintain during her natural life give and bequeath to my beloved Wife….

And lastly I nominate and appoint my Wife Eleanor and my son George to be whole and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament, and I do hereby Revoke all and every other to be my last Will and Testament the day and year first above Written." Mathias Yoakam in the presence of William Walton, Peter Deyerle, and Peter Keeney.

Francis Yoakum (son of Matthias and Eleanor (See) Yoakum,
ca 1729: born Frederick County, Virginia. no date: ?son Francis born
1751: lived Frederick County, Virginia.
14 Nov 1780: died Frederick County, Virginia.

Francis Yoakum (son of Francis Yoakum)
1800: census, Montgomery County, Kentucky, next to Francis Yocum, John Yocum, Sr., and William Yocum.
1810: census, Montgomery County, Kentucky, born 1760-1784.

Felty Yoakum (son of Matthias and Eleanor (See) Yoakum)
ca 1730: born Greenbrier Count. West Virginia
22 Nov 1750: took up 480 acres of land in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia
ca 1750/51: married Margaret?
ca 1751: ?daughter Elizabeth born.
ca 1753: son George born.
ca 1755: son John born.
17 July 1763: died Greenbrier County, Virginia, massacred by Chief Cornstalk's band of Indians.
Maria Thompson Davis, in her History of Mercer and Boyles Counties, Kentucky, stated. "The Indians killed all of
Feltv's familv but his wife and two children. She escaped but came back at night and lav in his bosom in gore.'

"Matthias Yoakum (son of Francis and Millie (Felty) Jochem)

1706• horn Now Amsterdam Now York

no date: moved to Pennsylvania with his parents, who settled the Dutch Colony on the South Branch of the Potomac
and at the mouth of Muddy Creek in Greenbrier County, Virginia

no date: Matthias bought land in Pennsylvania but, not liking the laws and regulations of the state, moved to the
Northern Neck of Virginia. He settled on what was then unsurveved land owned oby Thomas Lord Fairfax, at
Moorefield. the county seat of the present Hardy Countv. West Virginia. located on the Waopaconnec or Great Soutr\h
Branch of the Potomac

ca 1731: married Hardy County, Virginia, Eleanor See (1712 Silesia, Germany-18 Feb 1783 Lincoln County
Kentuckv) daughter of George Ludwig and Margaret (Judv) See of Silesia. Germanv

ca 1729: son Francis born

ca 1730: son Feltv born

1732: son Jacob born

ca 1734: son Valentine born

ca 1736: son Mathias born.

ca 1738: son Jesse born

ca 1740: son Michael born

ca 1742: son Conrad born.

ca 1745: Matthias Yocum, Michael Harness and George Stump were the first three men that ever brought wagons
down to the South Branch. Matthias and the others came by wav of Winchester. then up the Bia Caopon (Cacopon).
Lost River and to the mountains, Crossing over the mountains, thev came to the south brancnh. Mathias settled a
half mile from the north of South Fork (Draper MSS 12 c.c.-137 and 139). Tradition has the year of this settlement as
1745. The Moravian (United Brethren) missionaries. Leonard Schnel and John Grandmueller, in their diaries of
travels from Marvland to Virginia and the present West Virginia. visited Matthias Jochem and his familv as early as 30
mar 1747 and M. D. Gottschalk,, A. G. (Alias Joseph) Spangenberg agaIn VIsited Mathias and his family in October 1749 and described Matthias as a well-to-do German. They had traveled twelve miles from the home of George Zeh. The Virginia Magazine of Historv and Genealogv

Michael Harness was married to Elizabeth (Nephene) Westfall of Pennsylvania. Thev had 13 children:
ElizabethHarness married Philip Powell Yoakum,
Barbara Rebecca Harness married 1732 Michael See,
John Harness Married Elizabeth Yoakum.
Reference General Sketches of Families in VA and KY p 172