- Index
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Hobert L. Townsend
- Preface
- Description of the County
- Origin of the County
- Decaturville
- Photographs
- Antiquities
- Photographs
- Early Roads and Basic Occupations
- Photographs
- Religion and the People
- Photographs
- Decatur County Schools
- Photographs
- Medical Professions
- Photographs
- News Papers
- Towns
- Photographs (Part 1)
- Photographs (Part 2)
- Civic and Other Clubs
- Photographs
- Early Decatur County Families
- Photographs
- Wars
- Photographs
- Taylor Alexander Family
- Generation of Meshack Bailey
- The Cleamon Bawcum Family
- The Bawcum History
- Dr. B. M. Brooks
- Generation of Joseph Byrd
- Isaac "Ike" Cotham History
- William Bird Dodson
- William Herschel & Marie Wilson Cox
- Jonothan Duck Family
- Family of Isaac Lewis Gibson
- John William Columbus Gibson and Mary Ila Haywood
- Emanuel Gibson Family
- G. Hobert Goff
- Sam Hays' Lineage
- Robert (Bob) Hays Lineage
- Henry Hendrix (Hendricks)
- John Lucky Houston Family
- The Houston Family
- Kennie Kimbrough Houston
- Doctor Jennings Family History
- Thomas Pleas Lafferty - Ethel Leona Thompson
- History of Lancaster's
- John F. Lipscomb
- Abraham M. Leasure
- The Long Family
- The Luton Family
- John McIllwain Family
- McMillan Family Sketch
- McMurry Family
- C. V. Maxwell
- George Washington Maxwell Family
- Mrs. Eliza Ann Gullege Maxwell
- W. S. Maxwell
- Miller History
- Nathaniel Moore
- Moore Family
- C. A. Palmer
- A History of the Parsons Family
- History of George W. Partin
- Martha Baugus Powers History
- Charlie W. Pratt
- Thomas, Phillip and George Reed
- James Floyd Rogers
- The Shannons
- Micajah "Cager" Scott History
- Strawn (Straughn) Families
- William Stout Family
- Family of Thomas Davis Stout
- George W. Tate
- Joseph Bailey Taylor and Margaret (Maggie) Isabelle Middleton
- Tinker Family
- The Tolley Famly
- The Townsend Family
- Mr. And Mrs. Max L. Townsend Family
- J. P. Troutt Family
- History of Eli Michael Vise Family
- J. B. and Frances Jackson Welch History
- James Reynolds Wyatt
- Yarbro-Jennings History
- The Yarbro Family
- John Garrett and Leora Keeton Yarbro
- Younger-Washburn-White Family
From Lillye Younger, The History of Decatur County Past and Present (Southhaven,
MS: Carter Printing Company, 1978).
Special thanks to Constance Collett for permission to make these web pages.
In Memory of Lillye Washburn Younger 1912-1998.
YARBRO-JENNINGS HISTORY
Chapter XIV
Leo Yarbro, born in Decatur County in 1918 is the son of Grover and Ethel Hutson Yarbro. He married Will E. Jennings, daughter of Ezra and Georgia Rains Jennings in 1941.
Will E. Jennings Yarbro was born in Decatur County, the grand daughter of W. P. and Rebecca Quinn Jennings and Dr. W. G. Rains and Jo Ann Parker Rains. She is a descendant of one of the oldest settlers in Decatur County, Balam Rains. She and her husband reside at the old homeplace, however the log house was blown away and a modern building erected. The old building was called, "A Fortress formed by freedom hands."
Leo Yarbro was assistant Postmaster of Parsons Postoffice for twenty eight (28) years, a position from which he retired. He is presently serving as City Administrator of Parsons.
He is a Methodist and has served as Trustee, Chairman of the official board, church treasurer, and many other places. A veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict, he has served as Commander of Long-Ivey-Carrington V.F.W. for two terms. A member of the Parsons Lions Club, he is active in all Civic affairs.
The couple are the parents of two daughters and two grand children, Georgia who married Dave Pribonic and lives in Jacksonville, Florida, where she teaches in the school system and Joy who married Vernon Veazey. Joy is a teacher in the Parsons School System and Vernon is owner of the Sight and Sound Music Center. The couple have two children, Kimberly Lynn and Dustin Leo Veazey. Vernon is a disabled Vietnam Veteran.
Mr. and Mrs. Yarbro are both Methodist and Democrats.