Yount, Rachel Minerva 1844-1935

YOUNT, BLAIR, HELD, ROCKWELL, KEYSER, HELD

Posted By: Barbara Kamradt
Date: 3/20/2004 at 21:48:20

IOWA PIONEER PASSES AWAY

Many friends and neighbors mourn the death of Mrs. Rachel Minerva Yount, 91 years of age, and a resident of Plymouth county of 33 years, who died Saturday morning [Nov. 2, 1935] at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred W. Held.

Rachel Minerva was the oldest child born to James and Nancy Blair near Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, on July 2, 1844. At the age of 12 years the family moved to Iowa in the spring of 1856, settling three miles north of where Belle Plain is now located. There being no school, she assisted her mother the first year in doing house work. Later a school house was built but too far to attend, however, the family later moved to another location where she attended district school.

On March 15, 1867, she was united in marriage to Davis Yount, and seven children blessed this union, two sons and five daughters.

Mrs. Yount has lived in Iowa continuously since 1856, moving to Plymouth county in 1902. She was a member of the Methodist church and for several years was a teacher in home Sunday School, and the Women’s Relief Corp at Belle Plaine and Kingsley, and was a member of the Order of Good Templers.

Surviving Mrs. Yount are a son, Daniel C. Yount of James; and three daughters, Mrs. Albert Rockwell of Ponca, Neb., Mrs. Henry Keyser of Long View, Wash., and Mrs. Fred W. Held of Hinton; 24 grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren; and 12 great great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday of this week at 1:30 p.m. in Westcott-Doughty-Chandler funeral chapel, Sioux City, Rev. R. D. Acheson, officiating and burial will be in the cemetery at Kingsley.