Stanley Yoakum

Name: Stanley Yoakum
Alias: Kid Yoakum
Birth Name: Stanley Carver
Hometown: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Birthplace: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Died: 1952-09-03 (Age:66)
Height: 163cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Of French-Canadian heritage.

The majority of the 1910-1914 bouts come from T. S. Andrews's WORLD'S ANNUAL SPORTING RECORDS (1915), pp. 217-218.

Real name was Stanley Carver and he went as Kid Yoakum.

His Valentines 1911 fight with Charlie Sefton was at the Benevolent Athletic Association and was scheduled for 12 rounds and was a decision not a KO.

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According to a September 5, 1952 Associated Press news item with a Detroit dateline in the September 5, 1952 edition of Lansing State Journal on Newspapers.com, Stanley Carver, known as Stanley Yoakum when he was a boxer, died at the age of 67 in "Wayne county General hospital" on Thursday (September 4, 1952) after being hit in the head by a beer bottle during altercation on Saturday. He was "a retired Ford Motor company employee and had lived in Southern Dearborn on his pension and old age assistance." During his career as a boxer, he resided in Denver, Colorado.

According to his draft card on the U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 database on Ancestry.com, one Stanley Carver, 32 years of age, was working as a mechanic and residing in Denver, Colorado at the time of his registration on September 12, 1918. A subject of "Russia (Potski)," he was born on May 8, 1886. His nearest relative was "Frank Monski," a resident of Hartford, Connecticut. Note- On other documents, Stanley Carver/Yoakum was listed as being born in Colorado or Hartford, Connecticut.

According to his page on the Find A Grave website, one Stanley Yoakum was born on May 8, 1884 and died on September 3, 1952. He is buried in the Parkview Memorial Cemetery, which is located Livonia, Michigan.