| Born: | 1840 in Concow Basin, Butte, California |
| Sex: | Female |
| Parents: | Father: To Me Ya Nem (Joseph Burchard) Mother: (Sarah Burchard) |
| Marriage: | 1859 in Yankee Hill, Butte, California |
| Alfred Burr Clark (7 children) | |
| Died: | 19 Apr 1909 in Yankee Hill, Butte, California |
Yo-E-Ma, a daughter of To-Me-Ya-Nem, a chief of the Konkau Maidu tribe, was born about 1840 just prior to the California Gold Rush. She grew up with her world radically changing around her and her people undergoing great pressures and stresses.
At about age 19 she married Alfred Burr Clark, a white Vermonter, who had come West to seek his fortune. They first married according to tribal custom, but later, in order to satisfy local white citizens, they were married by a preacher, and when that was still insufficient, they were married in an "official" church wedding.
Yo-e-ma's people lived in the area of what is today Butte County, California. Her mother's Maidu name is not known, but both parents had "white" names: Joseph and Sarah Burchard. Alfred and Katie lived the bulk of their lives in the area of Butte County called Yankee Hill, which is about 4 miles southeast of Paradise, California, and it was in Yankee Hill that all their children were born.
---Michael L. Clark