Gad. L. Yale
Gad. L. Yale, born in Connecticut in 1810, settled at Lafayette in 1840. He lost his first wife prior to settlement here, but in 1839, married Mary M. Wilsey, of Henry county. In 1865 he received a sunstroke, and in 1877 was stricken with palsy, from which he suffered up to his death in April 1882.