YOUNG, Mary A. (Gillett) 1833-1901

YOUNG, GLILETT, SHIELDS

Posted By: Bruce Kuennen (email)
Date: 4/1/2020 at 12:15:36

MRS. L. J. YOUNG DEAD.

Wife of the Founder of the Courier Died at Ionia Monday.

Mrs. L. 3. Young, one of the best known women in the county and an early settler in New Hampton, died at her home in Ionia Monday. For several years past her mind had been affected and she had been confined in the hospital at Independence. She was brought home from there a few weeks ago and had slowly failed till Monday when death came to her relief and bore her away.

Her husband, L.J. Young, was the founder of this paper, its first issue being January 1G,1860, and many of those who remember the wife in those days and have kept up the acquaintance will hear with sorrow of her death. She was nearly seventy years of age and leaves her husband and several children to mourn her death, although they cannot but feel that in her ease death must
have come as a sweet relief.

We had expected to be furnished with a full obituary of Mrs. Young and are greatly disappointed in not being able to publish one in this issue. The funeral is held in Ionia today and will doubtless be a large one.

Source: New Hampton Courier, August 1, 1901, accessed at New Hampton Public Library Digital Archives

IN MEMORIAM.

Obituary of Mrs. S. J. Young Who Died at Ionia Last Week.

Mary A. Gillett was born in Batavia, Genesee county, New York April 22,1833 where she lived until three years of age, when her parents moved to a small town on or near the state line between Pennsylvania and Ohio where they lived for five years. In 1841 the family moved to Stephenson county, Illinois, when Miss Gillett grew to womanhood. In September 1853 she came to Chickasaw county, Iowa, and January 20, 1856 she was united in marriage with Levi J. Young in Chickasaw township.

Their home was for many years in New Hampton, while Mr. Young was editor or the COURIER, and on a farm in Chickasaw from which they moved into a cozy home in Ionia. For twenty years her health has been very poor, her mind suffering greatly; some years ago she spent several months in the hospital for the insane at Independence and returned much improved, but the improvement was not permanent and last February she was again taken there for treatment, and received much benefit during the first two months.

Near the last of June she was prostrated with inflammation of the brain which terminated her life July 30, 1901. She recognized her boys when they went to the asylum for her, knew when she reached home, then her reason left her and it did not return. For two days before she passed away she was in a comatose state.

She is survived by her husband and all of their six children, all but one of whom were with her in her last illness to assist in loving ministrations, Leroy L., living near Chickasaw; Sylvanus D., near Elma; Edwin C., in Buffalo Center; Charles Fremont, at Charles City; Henry B. at Ionia; and Leslie M., near Basset. She is also survived by three brothers and one sister, William W_ Gillett Chickasaw; Edwin R. Gillett of Graysville, Tenn., John E. Gillett of Decorah, Iowa; and Mrs. Amelia Shields of ???, Iowa.

Source: New Hampton Courier, August 8, 1901, accessed at New Hampton Public Library Digital Archives

Pioneers Passing Away.
Mrs. L. J. Young, one of the pioneers of Chickasaw county, died at her home in Ionia last week. She came to Chickasaw county in 1853 and was the wife of one of the pioneer editors of the Courier, New Hampton. She was the sister of John E. Gillett of Decorah.

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 8, 1901 P 2 C 3

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