Madeline Yeager was the daughter of Henry Yeager and Lena J. Gerin, who were married in 1904 in Hastings, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Lena had been born in Belgium and immigrated in 1893. These facts aided in the research of this family.

In 1909, the Pennsylvania Department of Health issued a report about a typhoid fever epidemic in Hastings. Among those afflicted with the illness were both Henry and Lena Yeager.

Henry and Lena had eight children: Francis, Madeline, Clement, Mary Gladys, Louise, Rita, John and Mary Teresa. At the time of the 1920 Federal Census, Henry was a bottler of Soft Beverages.

Johnstown Tribune, September 11, 1923 -- Spangler - HENRY YEAGER, aged 41 years of Hastings, died yesterday at the Miners' Hospital. He was admitted to the local institution last Sunday. His death was due to heart trouble. The deceased is survived by his widow and eight children. The body was turned over to Undertaker E. J. Easly of Hastings to prepare for burial. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

The youngest child, Mary Theresa, age 2, died in March 1925. According to her obituary, she had been been delicate since birth.

By 1930, the mother, Lena Yeager, was still living in Hastings. Her father, Frank Gerin, was living with her, as well as four of her children - Gladys, Louise, Rita and John.

At the time of the 1930 census, Madeline Yeager, by then a Trained Nurse, employed at a hospital, was residing in Pittsburgh with Cora Yeager, also a Trained Nurse. Madeline is listed as Cora's niece, and, in fact, Cora was Henry Yeager's sister. Another sister, also a nurse, was Stella Yeager. their parents were Anthony (sometimes found as Andrew) Yeager and Theresa Matilda Rhoa.

A search for nurse, Cora Yeager, yielded news articles related to her service in World War I, as well as her tragic death in 1935. One article states that she did her training at ST. FRANCIS. She is not listed among the graduates of the Pittsburgh St. Francis, but The Pittsburgh Chapter American Red Cross, published in 1922 indicates that she graduated from the St. Francis School of Nursing in Clarksburg, West Virginia. In fact, the school of nursing in Clarksburg was St. Mary's, but it was affiliated with St. Francis in Pittsburgh. Cora is even listed in articles about the St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh, Alumnae Association. - Cora is memorialized here nonetheless. - She is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

One article mentions that Cora's only sister died during the Influenza Epidemic in 1918.

Stella Yeager (1891- November 1918) -- Johnstown Tribune, Friday, Nov. 15, 1918 -- Hastings, Nov. 15 - The funeral of Miss Stella Yeager, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. [Anthony & Theresa] Yeager, of Hastings, was held this morning at 10 o'clock. Mass was solemnized by the Rev. Father Gabriel at 10 o'clock. Interment was made in the Catholic Cemetery [St. Bernard Cemetery, Hastings, Cambria County]. Miss Yeager was a trained Nurse working at the emergency hospital at Hastings during the epidemic of influenza where she contracted the disease and after an illness of three weeks died on Wednesday morning at 3:15 o'clock. Surviving Miss Yeager are her parents, one sister, Cora, a Red Cross Nurse in France, and the following brothers, Pius, Charles and Henry.

Based on the obituary of Madeline's brother, John, who died in March 1970, Madeline was married to Holgar Anderson, and they resided in Pittsburgh. At the time of the 1940 census, she was working as a nurse in a doctor's office.

Holgar Anderson died in December 1970. Madeline must have moved to Oil City, Venango County, to be near her sister, Louise Runzo. Madeline, born October 20, 1907, died in August 1978.