Charles C. Young(1841-1924)

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Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 8/6/2008 at 10:37:45

Jackson Sentinel
April 14, 1924

Charles C. Young Answers Final Summons This Morning
Was One of Maquoketa’s Pioneer Citizens and Business Men.
Funeral Will Be Held On Thursday Afternoon.

Perhaps there is no calling so sad, no duty so difficult, as that of penning the final tribute to a parent. The heart and hand tremblingly fears that full justice will not be done or that some good thing may be left unsaid. We hasten back thru years and recall the countless stepping stones which good old dad had helped us to safely reach, the numberless obstacles which he aided us in surmounting, and is it any wonder then that we are fearful lest fitting words will not find their way into our eulogy?

Charles C. Young, husband, father, grandpa and friend, has passed on, but such a wonderful legacy he has left. A life full to the very brim with honesty and integrity. No man ever was more devoted to home and its circle, no soldier ever came from the front with a cleaner record; no citizen ever strove more earnestly to be an honor to the community in which he lived; and no friend could have been more loyal and true.

What consolation this. What satisfaction reflects back from the mirror of such a life. But yesterday he accompanied us about the city which he watched grow from infancy to its present thrift and beauty, and he pointed out in passing numerous spots wherein were hidden memories of his early manhood life, and how cherished will the memory of this trip about town be to us as the years hurry by.

But, not only was father ever ready to live and meet the sunshine and shadows with a smile, but father was ready to die. No sinking sun was ever emblazoned with more golden light than was the sun of this life. Fortified with Christian faith, with his duty toward God and man well done, he was ready to answer “taps” whenever the Great Commander saw fit.

Naturally, we could pen volumes, but “Charley” young needs no introduction to our community folk, and in our thankfulness for the kindly words and deeds extended us by friends, we treasure the thought that these sympathies come from the heart just as father’s heart filled with sympathy when others were wreathed in sadness, misfortune and sorrow.

Charley C. Young was born in Essex county, New York, April 9, 1841, and in early boyhood learned the carpenter’s trade which he followed for many years. In 1860 he came to Iowa and Jackson county, and since that time Maquoketa has been his home. In 1861 he answered the call of country and enlisted in Co. A, 9th Iowa Infantry, with which organization he honorably served until wounded in the battle of Pea Ridge, when he was discharged.

He was united in marriage to Hannah E. Johnson, February 6, 1864, the sixtieth anniversary of their wedded life having been celebrated but a few weeks ago. For some time after marriage, father followed the carpenter’s trade, later engaging in the manufacture of wagons and buggies. Retiring from this line of work, father purchased a farm near Nashville, remaining thereon for about five years. He returned to Maquoketa, where he engaged in the drug business, which he continued until 1916, when he retired.

Father was one of the pioneer members of the Baptist church, and his faithful support of all its activities has featured nearly sixty years, and his support and counsel was ever ready and willing. He was also an honored member of A. W. Drips Post, G. A. R., and while not active in the programs of the order for the past few years, his heart was always with “the old boys” and he enjoyed their enjoyment in their functions and activities.

Besides his wife, our mother, he leaves in sorrow his children, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Young and one grandson, Carroll C., and in our loneliness, we are steered by the thoughts that as husband, father and grandpa, he was a man – a noble man, the greatest of all God’s gifts.

The funeral will be held from the home at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon, and from the Baptist church at 2:30, Rev. L. Elgin Brough officiating, assisted by Rev. F. C. Worcester. Interment will be made in Mt. Hope cemetery.

“Sleep, Soldier, Sleep,

Thy Warfare’s O’er.”