Fred C. Yates

My initial interest in the Yates lineage and Fred C. Yates specifically,began at an early age when my mother, Edith Jane (Yates) Riffe,introduced me to the shoebox. I have always thought of it as a shoebox,because it is about that size, but it is actually more of an all purpose box.Mother kept her most prized possessions in it, letters from her father,Fred C. Yates, and a handful of notebooks and documents that had beenpassed down from him.