SIXTH GENERATION

33. Ina Ann Yates ⁽¹⁰⁾ was born on 2 Dec 1902 in Vine Grove, Ky.. She died on 10 Apr 1986 in Elizabethtown, Ky. Ina was a tomboy, working in the fields with her dad & brothers. She got her housework training alright, but took to the fields every chance she got, which stood her in good stead later. We always ate well during the depression because she always had a garden and canned from that to winter us over. And because she sewed we had more and better clothes than others of equal means. She also used her crafts skills to earn extra money for household improvements.
When Elmer died in 1956 she went to work in a resteurant as a cook then later in a school cafeteria where she worked until she married Sherrill Atcher in January of 1962. She nursed him for most of the next 11 year until he died in April 1973. She lived alone after that until she went into a nursing home in 1983. After suffering a stroke, falling and breaking a hip [in February of 84] she perked up pretty well for several months then early in November of 85 she had another stroke, fell and broke the other hip. While in hospital for hip repair she suffer two more strokes which left her paralized and speechless until she died in April of 1986.
Since Ina and Sherrill had both been married before and had children with their first spouses they decided that each would be buried with the first spouse. Therefore Ina was buried beside my dad in the Stovall Church Cemetary.

She was married to Elmer Forrest Wallace (son of John Girley Wallace and Stella (Lucy Stella) Sutherland) on 15 Nov 1924 in La Grange,Oldham Co, KY. Elmer Forrest Wallace ⁽¹⁾ was born on 10 Dec 1905 in Lockport, Henry Co. Ky.. He died on 9 Oct 1956 in Hardin Co. Ky. Note from Louise Wallace Family Tree:

Elmer began his working life by helping on the family tenant farms. When the fanily moved to Louisville and as soon as he was big enough he went to work at Standard Sanitary. Later he tried getting into heavy machinery work but the Depression was upon us and work was hard to come by. During that time he came close to drowning in quick sand---he was stepping off the length of a cable when he stepped into the unrecognized quick sand, his supervisor presuming he was a goner turned his back so as not to see, but Elmer decided to try to swim out which just happened to work. Shortly after that [since jobs were so hard to find] Elmer took his wife back to his in-laws farm where their daughter was born. For several years thereafter he did tenant farming, saying that at least they could feed themselves. When the Depression began to break he got back into heavy machinery work, i.e. earthmoving machinery, like Turnopulls, [dirt haulers{or scrapers}], bulldosers and graders. After a few years he bought some used equipment and did small contracting jobs until his death just short of his 51st birthday in 1956. He was buried the Stovall Church Cemetary.
In the Spring of 1941 he and Ina left Louise with friends and went to Baton Rouge LA, to check out work. On the way down they had a right front tire blow out, when they got the car stopped that wheel was hanging in mid air over a slough, a previous accident had broken through the gaurd rail. They stayed in Baton Rouge two weeks. After being paid on Fri. he and Ina overhauled the engine of their car and headed back to Louisville, KY and Louise. Monday morning he reported back to work at his previous
job, and to the nurse where he was told he had mumps. He went home to three weeks in his sickbed downed mumps,flu and lumbago. He had had a premonition in LA that he should hurry back to KY.
In 1947 he took a crashed airplane[an Aronica single engine 2 passemger fabric covered job] as payment for work done on the West Point KY community airport. He rebuilt [and reinforced] and flew the plane for a few months before he started blacking out while in the air. For the safety of himself and the community he sold the plane.
He had plans to go to TX when he met Ina, he didn't get to TX until he came to visit his daughter Louise and her husband Floyd in the winter of '54.
Ina Ann Yates and Elmer Forrest Wallace had the following children:

40 i. Louise Wallace.

She was married to SHERILL (THOMAS SHERRILL] ATCHER in Jan 1962 in Jan 1962 in Hardin Co. KY in Ina's livingroom. SHERILL (THOMAS SHERRILL] ATCHER was born on 10 Sep 1898. He died on 27 Mar 1974 in Radcliff, Hardin Co.KY.