Yount Family

YOUNT

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/15/2010 at 20:05:05

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Yount family
By Ralph W Wilcox

Rebecca (Yount) Wilcox’s ancestors came from Miami County, southwestern Ohio. She was born to Davis Young, 1846-1934, and Rachel (Blair) Young, 1844-1935. Rebecca’s grandfather was Jacob Yount, 1818-1895. Her grandmother was Rebecca (Waymire) Yount, 1820-1849; she died quite young and is buried at West Milton, Ohio.

Davis Yount lived for a time with an aunt after his mother’s death. The Civil War was in progress and the appeal to serve the Union was irresistible. So, at age 16, he fibbed about his age and joined the Union Army. The war was over in one year, but while in the Army he learned to play the fife. (His playing was a source of great pride and pleasure in later life, especially when asked to participate in ‘Decoration Day’ observances or parades at Kingsley, Iow.) after one more year, he and Rachel Minerva Blair were married in 1867.

Davis Yount’s father, Jacob, remarried in 1849, this time to Elizabeth Ann Kyle, 1821-1890. Both the Davis and Jacob Yount families moved to Belle Plaine, Iowa, and from there the elder Young, Jacob, and his family went to Page, Nebraska, near O’Neill. Not finding that location conducive to growing corn, they moved to Lucky Valley, Iowa.
Jacob, after his wife’s death in1890, spent a few years at Toledo, Iowa, but is buried beside his wife, Elizabeth in the Lucky Valley Cemetery. Lucky Valley was, at one time, a small inland town in Section 2 and 3, Grant Township, 3 ½ miles due west of Anthon. It no longer exists. The cemetery is one-quarter mile south in Section 3.

Meanwhile, Davis and Rachel Yount moved, in 1888, from Belle Plaine to a farm in the south west part of Section four, Wolf Creek Township. From here the family moved, in 1894, to a farm near the little village of Quorn, now extinct, on the banks of the West Fork of the Little Sioux River, about one mile west of Kingsley, in Plymouth County. There was a flour mill on the West Fork. Four mills always had a fascination for Davis; he had one on the farm he owned in Belle Plaine.

In 1902, he and his son, Louis bought land in Section 30, Hungerford Township, and son, Dan, bought land in Section 25 of Perry Township, one or two miles northwest of James, Iowa, in Plymouth County. Davis and Rachel spent their remaining years at this location. Both Davis and Rachel and sons, Louis and Daniel and their wives are buried in the Protestant Cemetery just north of the town of Kingsley.

Davis and Rachel had seven children:

1( Elizabeth Young, 1868-1961, married Albert Rockwell. Both are buried at Ponca, Nebraska.

2( Louis A Young, 1870-1930, married Susan Litterick and lived northwest of James, Iowa. Both are buried in the Kingsley cemetery.

3( Stella Young, 1869-1964, married Henry Keyser. They lived for a while at Ponca, Nebraska, when they moved to Longview, Washington, where they are buried.

4( Rebecca Yount, 1872-1935, married William Wilcox; both are buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Rock Branch, Iowa, after living out their lives eight miles due south of Kingsley, or six miles east of Moville, Iowa.

5( Gertrude Yount, 1874-1894, married Thomas E Wilcox, brother of William. They lived at Laurel, Nebraska. She is buried there. He remarried, moved to Winner, South Dakota, and is buried there.

6( Daniel D Yount, 1880-1971, married Della Howder. Both are buried in the Kingsley cemetery. They lived northwest of James, Iowa, and later in Section 4, Wolf Creek Township, where his parents and family lived until 1894.

7( Belle Yount, 1884-1962, married Frederick Held and lived ½ mile east of Hinton, Iowa, in Section 9, Hungerford Township, Plymouth County. Both are buried in Graceland Park Cemetery in Morningside, a suburb of southeast Sioux City.