Anne Jeanette Yoakum

     Anne Jeanette Yoakum was born in June 1868 at Cordelia, Solano County, California. She was the daughter of George Washington Yoakum and Rebecca Ann Johnson. Anne Jeanette Yoakum married Thomas Alexis Mack in 1891. Anne Jeanette Yoakum died in April 1938 at age 69 years and 10 months. She was buried in the Masonic Cemetery, located in Merced, Merced County, California.
     From Gary R. Hawpe, ed. and Alma Stone, comp., 'Funeral Held for Mrs. Ann Mack Tuesday,' Van Bibber Pioneers E-Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 11 (September 2001), pp. 12 - 13.

FUNERAL HELD FOR MRS. ANN MACK TUESDAY

Mrs. Ann J. Mack, widow of the late Thomas A. Mack, sheriff of Merced county a decade ago, died at Mercy hospital Saturday evening, where she had been confined for three weeks. Her health had been poor for some time, but more recently her illness became more acute.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in the Ivers & Alcorn Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. David McMartin officiating. Burial was in the Yoakum family plot in the Masonic cemetery, Pallbearers were C. C. Cribb, Wilmer Cornell, Robert Cothran, J. Emmett McNamara, W. A. Burch and E. G. Adams.

Mrs. Mack was the second daughter of the late George and Rebecca Yoakum, Merced county pioneers, who came here to reside in 1885. Mrs. Mack was born in Cordelia, Solano county and lived with her parents in Alameda, Walnut Creek, and Mariposa county before coming to Merced. She would have been seventy-one years old in June.

She married Mack in 1891. He had a colorful career as an express messenger for Wells Fargo, and as a deputy sheriff and sheriff for sixteen years. He died in 1928.

After her husband s death, Mrs. Mack lived in Los Angeles with her daughter, Mrs. Rex N. Moss, and about a year ago returned to Merced to reside with Mrs. Mary C. French, her sister. She was a member of Eastern Star lodge, neighbor of Woodcraft, and a member of the Central Presbyterian church.

She is survived by three children Mrs. Moss, George T. Mack and W. A. Mack, Merced; three grandchildren, Mrs. Virginia Smith, Cleveland, Ohio; William Mack Jr., and Mary Ellen Mack, both of Merced; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Cribb, Arcadia; Mrs. French, Merced; Mrs. Forrest Routt, Martinez; two brothers, George F. Yoakum, both of Merced. Her father passed away in 1926 and her mother in 1936.

Merced Express, Merced, California, April 14, 1938.