Mary Youtsey

YOUTSEY, HAYS, MCGILL

Posted By: Kathleen Gregory (email)
Date: 11/18/2012 at 17:14:11

I write to inform you of the death of Mary Youtsey, wife of Peter Youtsey, one of the early settlers of this county, and will be remembered by many of the old settlers. She died at the residence of her son-in-law and daughter, Tobias and Farrillia McGill, near Dundee, Barton county, Kansas, where they have been living for about two years, April 4th, after a long and painful illness. Her maiden name was Mary Hays. She was born in the territory of Indiana, on Sept. 4th, 1806. Her grandfather and father were both killed by the Indians, her father was killed when she was five years old. She lived in Indiana, and bravely endured the hardships of frontier life until the year 1852, they came to Iowa to procure land for their children with the means they had labored long and faithfully to lay up. They settled in Cedar township in Lucas county, near Lagrange, on a farm. Her health became bad several years ago and they went to Colorado for her health, and then to Dundee, Kansas. She was one of the great and noble women of her day, one of the hard workers, always ready to do all in her power to relieve the sick or help the distressed. She and Father Peter Youtsey have been very kind to their children; giving them all land for homes and much substantial help besides, for which they are very thankful. She was buried near Pawnee Rock, Kansas. Her husband, Peter Youtsey survives her. He is with his children near Dundee, for the present.

William Goltry

Article from The Chariton Democrat, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, April 15, 1886. Page 2
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