Will Yelton 1866 - 1933

YELTON

Posted By: Linda H. Meyers (email)
Date: 7/19/2008 at 14:06:49

WILL YELTON DIED AT COUNTY HOME

William F. Yelton, well known in the Story City neighborhood forty years ago and more, died Sunday morning at the county home, where he had been an inmate for some years. Will was the son of pioneer parents and was 66 years old at the time of his death. He father once operated the old Soper's mill and later ran a restaurant i Story City. Will was a character, partly because of his stunted growth and partly because of an arrested mentality, but was always a likable fellow. Funeral services will be held today at the Adams funeral parlor in Ames, with Rev. Davidson officiating, and interment will be made in the Pleasant Grove cemetery.

--from the Story City Herald 1/26/1933