Description
John Yokum: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company D, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company D.
✦ Invalid Pension: #433,049, Certificate #477,617
(Researcher's note: John Yokum enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on August 2, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company D.
On November 13, 1866, Benjamin R. Morton, Administrator of the Estate of David Hunt, deceased, of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #164 for enlisted slave John Yokum and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Benjamin R. Morton claimed the Estate of David Hunt had acquired title to John by “...purchase from W. Y. Yocum on the 12th day of February 1855." Letters of Administration filed by Benjamin R. Morton identify Mr. S. P. Morton, Mrs. Ann Likins, John G. Sutton, Elizabeth Merryman, David Hunt, Jr., Mrs. H. E. Queen, William H. Hunt, Mrs. Mary F. McClure, and Robert F. Hunt as being heirs to David Hunt's estate.
The May 4, 1898, Voucher for Invalid Pension Certificate #477617 indicates that John Yokum married Mariah Catherine Carter/Mariah Yokum on December 29, 1859 officiated by Rev. Andy Corporal with Mariah's enslaver William Darnell in attendance. There were 12 children, 6 still living: Bertha born February 14, 1877; Annie born October 14, 1878; Angie born May 7, 1884; Mary born January 4, 1866; Lillie born December 9, 1868; Emma born March 9, 1872.
As of July 1, 2026, Civil War U. S. C. T. Pension Record case files are not currently available on the Internet and would need to be ordered from the National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.)Date(s) of Creation
11/9/1881
