Young, Sarah C. 1842-1936

YOUNG, GUTHRIE

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 3/8/2015 at 16:29:19

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
July 14, 1936
(front page-photo included)

Mrs. Sarah Young Nonagenarian Is Claimed By Death
Came To Plymouth County When LeMars Consisted of a Few Shacks
Served As Nurse In War
Was a Charter Member of Methodist Church Here

Mrs. Sarah C. Young, 93, one of the oldest residents of the county and widely known pioneer, died Monday morning at the Mandelkow apartments, 335 Third Avenue SE., where she had made her home in recent years. Her death was due to old age and she passed away peacefully in her sleep.

Sarah C. Guthrie was born near Springfield, Ill., on a farm December 27, 1842, where she grew to young womanhood and was married to Charles J. Young, a union soldier, shortly after his return from service. Shortly after their marriage, they came to Plymouth County, homesteading land two miles northwest of LeMars. At the time they settled here, LeMars consisted of a few frame shacks and the mill founded by Peter Gehlen was in process of construction.

Mr. and Mrs. Young underwent the vicissitudes of the grasshopper years and the drawbacks which met the early settler. They worked hard and farmed with success for many years before retiring to LeMars to make their home.

NURSE IN WAR TIME.
Mrs. Young, when a girl in her teens and early twenties, lived in the stirring times of the Civil War, and volunteered as a nurse and nursed the wounded and solaced the dying in hospitals near the front. Her interest in veterans and survivors of the Civil War was continued throughout her life and she was a member of the Women’s Relief Corps in Le Mars since its foundation.

CHARTER MEMBER OF CHURCH.
Mrs. Young was possessed of deep religious convictions and was a life long member of the Methodist church. She was a charter member of the LeMars church and the last surviving member of the group which started the church in this city.

Until recent years Mrs. Young possessed a remarkably retentive memory and knew all the families in LeMars and took a deep interest in their doings. She was a fine Christian woman, who lived a long and useful life.

She is survived by two sons, Bert Young, of Honolulu, employed for many years by the government in educational work in the Hawaiian Islands and other possessions of the United States, and Grove Young, of Morris, Minn., who formerly farmed near LeMars. There are five grandchildren.

FUNERAL ON WEDNESDAY.
The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 in the Methodist church. Rev. J. R. Tumbleson officiating, and interment made in the city cemetery.

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