YOUNG, John 1819 - 1888

YOUNG, RICHARDSON, MEEK, CROSSFIELD, MYERS

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Date: 5/3/2004 at 08:13:28

"The Fairfield Journal"
Wednesday, March 28, 1888
Page 3, Column 4

DEATH OF JOHN YOUNG.

John YOUNG, a well known and highly respected farmer of this county, died at his home three miles northwest of this city Thursday morning last...from Bright's disease...Mr. YOUNG was a native of Mercer Co., Kentucky, and came to this county in 1837. Two years later he located on the farm on which he died, and which he had made his home almost continuously since that time. In Illinois, in 1840, he was married to Annie RICHARDSON, who died in 1879, and again to Mrs. Elizabeth MEEK, a close neighbor through much of his life in Iowa, who survives him. By his first marriage Mr. YOUNG was the father of 11 children, six of whom are now living. Three sons, J. F., J. W., and Lark, reside at Gunnison City, Col., Charles on the home farm, two daughters, Mrs. Ada CROSSFIELD and Mrs. Martha A. MYERS, at Scott City and Grigsby, Kan.....The funeral occurred Friday, Rev. H. M. Jones conducting the services, and the remains were interred in the Moorman cemetery.