W. C. (Coleman) Young Family

COLEMAN, YOUNG

Posted By: Stacey McDowell Dietiker (email)
Date: 11/3/2001 at 22:43:38

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Subject: W. C. (Coleman) Young Family
Date: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:15 PM

W. C. (Coleman) Young Family

W. C. (Coleman) Young, son of William (Ham) Young, was married to Margaret
Frances Redd Nov. 1890. Seven children grew to adulthood from this union.
They are: Hamie, Ralph, Fred, Naomi, Frances, Mary and Addie. they lived on
the farm that borders the town of Grand River on the southeast corner, laying
on the east side of highway 294.

Coleman had some of the biggest steam engines around this area. He pulled a
threshing machine and threshed over a several mile area. After winding up
the summer of threshing around here, he would load his steam engine,
threshing machine, water wagon and other supplies on a flat car and ship them
to the Dakotas.

He would thresh up there until late fall. Upon returning, he would make
another local run shredding corn fodder. At this time he was also cutting
enough wood to keep his family warm during the winter months. Later on in
the winter when the ice got thick enough, he would cut and store ice in their
ice house for summer use. He also had a sawmill that sat south of the house
by the creek. It was powered by one of his steam engines.

Ham, the father of Coleman, was a blind man. He made his living making and
selling brooms. Coleman's daughters used to escort their grandfather to town
on Saturday morning to sell his brooms.

Each trip he bought horehound and peppermint stick candy, which he treated
the girls with.

Copied from Reflections of Grand River, Iowa 1881-1981 by Stacey McDowell
Dietiker

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