Yount, Davis (Died 1934)

YOUNT, BLAIR

Posted By: Linda Linn (email)
Date: 3/16/2011 at 00:24:52

LeMars Globe Post
12-24-1934

Civil War Vet Claimed
The funeral services for Davis Yount, 87, a farmer northwest of James, who died Thursday following an extended sickness, were held Sunday afternoon at Sioux City. Rev. R. D. Acheson officiated and burial was made in the Kingsley cemetery.

Grandsons of Mr. Yount were pallbearers. He was a veteran of the Civil war. A firing squad performed at the graveside.
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TWO VETERANS IN AKRON

Akron-Register Tribune: In commenting upon the death of Davis Yount, 88, Civil War veteran residing near James, Iowa, on Thursday, December 20, [1934] the LeMars Sentinel states that he was the last remaining Civil War veteran but one in Plymouth county, that being Andrew M. Crouch, of LeMars. The Sentinel is misinformed, as Akron has two surviving veterans of the Civil War: U. B. Kenaston, a resident here for many years, and P. P. Rice, who came here recently to make a home with his daughter, Mrs. Ziegler.

Source: LeMars Sentinel
Tuesday, January 1, 1935, Page 1, Column 4
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RESEARCH NOTE: Davis Yount married Rachel Minerva Blair. Per his wife's obituary excerpt:
"On March 15, 1867, she was united in marriage to Davis Yount, and seven children blessed this union, two sons and five daughters."

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