Oscar Newton Young 1858-1915

YOUNG, KELLY, JENSEN

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 12/1/2014 at 00:01:48

O.N. Young Passes To Reward
Most Highly Respected Citizen of Ringsted Died on Anaemia
Settled in Emmet County in 1896
President of Ringsted State Bank and One of Directors of Farmers Mutual Insurance Company
Ringsted Dispatch
Friday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock occurred the death of O.N. [Oscar Newton] Young of pernicious anaemia after an illness extending over several years. Funeral services were held Sunday from the Presbyterian church conducted by Rev. Grundy and interment made in the cemetery at Armstrong.

Mr. Young’s illness dates back four years when he was very seriously ill and consulted doctors at Rochester who extended no hope to him. In March this year Mr. and Mrs. Young went to California to visit Mr. Young’s only brother, whom he wished very much to see, and on his return his many friends noticed that his health had failed very much during his absence and it was only a short time until he was confined to his home. He was able to be up a little every day almost to the day of his death.

Oscar N. Young was born near Oskaloosa, Mahaska county, Iowa, June 24, 1858, and was fifty-seven years of age at the time of his death. He was married to Ada B. Kelly February 12, 1888, to which union three children were born: Mrs. H.W. Jensen of Ringsted, Miss Blanche Young, a teacher in the Sioux Falls schools and Harry Young, a student at Ames.

He moved with his family to Emmet county in 1896 and settled on his farm in Jack Creek township. This was a raw piece of land at that time without improvements. He resided there until 1905 when he moved to Ringsted in order that he might give his children better school advantages. He again moved back to the farm in 1908 and resided there until 1912, when he again moved to Ringsted and spent his winters here and summers on his farm near Winnipeg, Canada. This spring he purchased the home where his family now reside, and expected to retire as he had sold his farm properties in both Jack Creek and in Canada.

Mr. Young was a faithful member of the Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder and a member of the board of trustees. He was on the board of directors of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Emmet county and has served in that capacity for fifteen years. During the years of 1906 and 1907 he served on the city council of Ringsted. He was president of the Ringsted State Bank, a member of its board of directors and one of its largest shareholders.

He was a man of generous impulses and never forgot the hospitable ways of the pioneer. He had borne adversity bravely and enjoyed prosperity quietly. He was a patient sufferer and was never heard to complain. He had filled the various relations of live, as son, brother, husband, father, friend, and filled them well. Who can do more? Besides his devoted wife he leaves two daughters and one son. We can only remind these mourners that he is not dead, he is only asleep – resting after a well spent life here; he cannot and would not, if he could, return to us; we can, if we will, go to him. Behind the storm clouds always lurks the rainbow and when this storm is past it weeps upon the flowers of the land and the pearls of the sea. Darkness precedes the dawning and out of the blackness of night comes the sunshine and joy of the day. And so from the beauty of his life take all inspiration and go forth and live as he lived, so that when the summons comes you may say as he said, “All is well.”

At all times, under all circumstances he walked in the well beaten path of righteousness and when fully conscious that he was nearing the last of earth, he appeared to be fully impressed with the idea that at the end of time eternity began, and that the bright faith which sustained him during those trying hours of suffering would only grow brighter and brighter as he journeyed toward the Infinite and the gloom of death be dispelled by the radiance of God’s love. Cold all live the just and upright life Mr. Young lived and die in his trusting faith, death could no longer be called the “King of Terrors” for it inspired no terror there.

The floral offerings surpassed in profusion and beauty anything ever seen here before. (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, July 28, 1915)