Married in Tippecanoe Co. IN. on12-19-1853.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Yount, age 90, a life-long resident of Clinton county, died at the Home hospital at Lafayette Tuesday evening. Death came after an extended illness with paralysis and a complication of the diseases incident to age. Mrs. Yount had been confined to the hospital for the past eight weeks.
Funeral services will be held at the Mulberry Methodist Episcopal church at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Burial will be made in the Dayton cemetery.
Elizabeth (Platt) Yount was born in Clinton county February 11, 1832. She was united in marriage on December 19, 1853, to Hamilton Yount, who preceded her in death a number of years ago. Practically her entire life was spent in Clinton county, where she was well known and highly respected. For a number of years after the death of her husband she lived in Mulberry. Recently, however, she had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Black, of Rural Route 8. She was a member of the Mulberry Methodist Episcopal church, in which she was ever an active worker until her health failed.
Six children survive. They are Mrs. J. L. Black, Mrs. Joseph Hackerd, of Mulberry; C. B. Yount, of Frankfort; Marvin Yount, of Mulberry; Henry Yount, of near Mulberry; and Melvin Yount, of Brookston. Among the survivors are thirty-one grandchildren and thirty-nine great-grandchildren.
-- Margaret Weaver Scrapbook
Married in Tippecanoe Co. IN. on12-19-1853.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Yount, age 90, a life-long resident of Clinton county, died at the Home hospital at Lafayette Tuesday evening. Death came after an extended illness with paralysis and a complication of the diseases incident to age. Mrs. Yount had been confined to the hospital for the past eight weeks.
Funeral services will be held at the Mulberry Methodist Episcopal church at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Burial will be made in the Dayton cemetery.
Elizabeth (Platt) Yount was born in Clinton county February 11, 1832. She was united in marriage on December 19, 1853, to Hamilton Yount, who preceded her in death a number of years ago. Practically her entire life was spent in Clinton county, where she was well known and highly respected. For a number of years after the death of her husband she lived in Mulberry. Recently, however, she had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Black, of Rural Route 8. She was a member of the Mulberry Methodist Episcopal church, in which she was ever an active worker until her health failed.
Six children survive. They are Mrs. J. L. Black, Mrs. Joseph Hackerd, of Mulberry; C. B. Yount, of Frankfort; Marvin Yount, of Mulberry; Henry Yount, of near Mulberry; and Melvin Yount, of Brookston. Among the survivors are thirty-one grandchildren and thirty-nine great-grandchildren.
-- Margaret Weaver Scrapbook
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