Almira (Casler) Youngman was the daughter of Richard P. Casler. She was the 1st wife of Rev. Thomas Henry Youngman. They were married in 1864. Rev. Youngman was a minister in the Oneida Conference/Central New York Conference/Northern New York Conference/East Genesee Conference/Genesee (now Western New York) Conference and Dakota Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died in 1917.

US CENSUS
June 10, 1880
Batavia, Genesee Co., NY
YOUNGMAN
Thomas H., age 42, b1838 ENGLAND, Meth Epis pastor
Elmira age 48, b1832 NY
dau Mary age 14, b1866 NY

Memoir
Methodist Episcopal Church
Genesee Conference Journal
1880, Page 69

Mrs. Almira Youngman, lamented wife of Rev. T. H. Youngman, of Genesee Conference, died in Batavia, September 27, 1880, in the 49th year of her age. Sister Youngman's religious life began in the year 1860, when she was converted to God and became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the Bethel Charge, in the Town of Manlius, within the bounds of the then Oneida Conference. She immediately devoted herself to the work of the Lord, and became a recognized "deaconness" in the society in which she belonged. Nothing could be originated, or if originated, could be conducted to a successful finish without her aid. In the year 1864 our sister was united in marriage to Rev. T. H. Youngman, of the Oneida Conference, to whom she was a most faithful companion, efficient counselor and helper to the end of her earthly life. To aid her husband in bearing the burdens of his ministrey was her great endeavor. The labors thus assumed brought upon her the beginning of the disease which caused her years of suffering, and finally brought her to a premature grave. Sister Youngman was intensely practical. "What good will come of it?" was the question which always came from her when anything new or strange was proposed. She had a large measure of that almost indefinable something called common sense. She had a great capacity for business. She was gifted with genius in things essential to home and every day life. Her power to read character was marvelous. Every face which she saw was to her an open page printed in the plainest characters. How she read that face she could not tell. But she did it so accurately that her husband says in the sixteen years of their fellowship he has never had occasion, even after years of close observation, to correct an opinion she formed of a person at sight. She was self-reliant, self-contained, self-poised, and independent.l She was independent to a fault. If she ever gave pain to the heart of affliction, it was by refusing its proffered ministries. For years she was an uncomplaining and silent sufferer under pangs which were severe in the extreme. No word of impatience ever escaped her lips. As a Christian she was truly steady, earnest and practical, but without ostentation. She was found in the homes of the poor and neglected, in the closet rather than on the house-top. She did good for its own sake, and for the honor which cometh from above. It did not pain her to be unfavorably criticized. It did not please her to be praised. She bore acquaintance. Like gold she brightened with wear. Those who knew her most intimately loved her most ardently. She had premonitions of her approaching death many months before. When they were hardly settled in their new home, two years ago, she said to her husband: "This is the last time I shall move," yet she was not afraid to die. She talked of death as though it was a pleasant journey. She longed to be at rest. During her last sickness, which was, but brief, her constant cry was: "O, I am so tired; can't you give me rest?" Her last words, after the singing of "Rock of Ages" by those who surrounded her bed, were "This is not my home; I cannot rest here; I am going home to rest." Fixing her eyes on the dear one who held her hand in mute and awful agony, she uttered one final word, "Thomas," and was forever at rest.