Mrs. S. R.(Sarah Elizabeth Adams) Young

YOUNG, ADAMS, TIRRILL, SATTERLEE, ROCKWELL, NEWTON, NEWTON

Posted By: Danita Young Smith
Date: 3/22/2007 at 10:28:56

Manchester Press
Manchester, Iowa
13 August 1903

After an illness of nearly a year’s duration, Mrs. S. R. Young died at the home of her son, D. H. Young, in this city, on Friday evening. The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon at half past two o’clock, from the residence of her son, Rev. H. O. Pratt of the M. E. Church officiating. Mrs. Young was buried in the Manchester cemetery.

Mrs. Young’s maiden name was Sarah Elizabeth Adams, and she was born on a farm near Albany, New York, April 22, 1830. She was therefore past 73 years of age. She was the youngest of a family of eight children. When she was yet a child her father and mother died, and soon after their death she came west with her brother, the late Hon. D. Emmons Adams, the two settling at Durand, Winnebago county, Illinois. It was there that Miss Adams formed the acquaintance of S. R. Young, and in that village they were united in marriage. After living there for a short time, Mr. and Mrs. Young removed still farther west, coming to this county in the summer of 1855 and locating in Manchester. Their residence here was brief, for soon after coming to this place they removed to a farm in Milo township, four miles south of Manchester, which continued their home until 1900, when failing health induced them to leave the old home and take up their residence in town with their son. In the early days of their life on the Milo farm, Mrs. Young taught school very successfully, during the administrations of County Superintendents R. W. Tirrill and J. B. Satterlee.

Mrs. Young is survived by her husband, one son, D. H. Young, one sister, Mrs. Zady Rockwell of Pontiac, Michigan, and a brother, Elijah Adams, of Broadhead, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Young have lost three children. W. W. Young died in 1888, a daughter, Susan, at five years of age, and another daughter, Mary Newton, in infancy.

The life of Mrs. Young, in her later years, was one of quiet retirement. She was an intelligent and capable woman, who had lived the years allotted to her, beyond the psalmist’s measure, usefully and faithfully. It is worthy to note that she was a lineal descendent, upon her mother’s side, of Sir Isaac Newton, a distinction worthy of record and in which she took a pride altogether justifiable. As a girl she was converted to the belief and profession of Christianity, and she never failed throughout her long life, to witness to the efficacy of its teachings by close adherence to its ruling principles. The friends and neighbors who have know her these many years and have enjoyed companionship with her mourn her death deeply and sincerely. The books of a simple and earnest life is closed, but its records will not be forgotten by those in whose memory she is held dear.

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