Private in Co. A., 21st Missouri Vounteer Infantry.
Carl Friedrich Just was born in Grafenhainichen, Little Saxony, Prussia the son of Gottfried Siegmund and Christiana Henrietta Concordia (Klingner) Just. The family name appears to have changed from Just to Yust shortly after they settled in America. He came to the United States on the ship Augusta, arriving in New Orleans November 11, 1855. He brought his wife Amalia and his five eldest children, Fred, Charlie, Molly, Minnie and William. He and his wife first settled in the community of Canton, Lewis County, Missouri and later moved to Reno County, Kansas where they lived the rest of their lives.
His brother, Charles Edward Yust also settled in Canton and raised his family in the area.
History of Reno County, Kansas, Vol II, 1917, pg. 420-24:
Begins and ends with history of George H. Yust.
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. . . The older Fred Yust was a weaver in Germany and he and his wife were born on the say day, December 19, 1817. In 1855 they emigrated with their children to America, landing at New Orleans after a voyage of nine weeks in a sailing vessel. They proceeded thence by river steamer to Canton, Missouri, arriving there in December, 1855, and there the eldest Yust became engaged as a stone mason and continued thus occupied until the Civil War broke out, when he and his two eldest sons, Fred and Charles, enlisted in Company A., Twenty-first regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for two years, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Tupelo, Nashville and lesser engagements and in the siege and capture of the fort on Mobile bay. Upon the conclusion of his military service, the elder Yust returned to his home in Canton and resumed his occupation as stone mason and was thus engaged until 1874, in which year he came to Kansas, settling in Hayes township, this county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their days, highly respected pioneers of that neighborhood, his death occurring on May 27, 1900, his widow surviving until March 14, 1904. They were both earnest members of the German Methodist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, as follow: Fred, a priminent resident of this county, father of the subject of this biographical sketch; Charles, a veteran of the Civil War and for years a well-known resident of Reno county, who died in 1890; Amalia, who married Julius Bandhauer and died at her home in Hayes township, this state; Minnie, wife of Peter Birke, who is engaged in the agricultural implement and hardware business at Canton, Missouri; John, a well-known farmer of Hayes township, this county; Louisa, who also lives in Hayes township, widow of Wid Clothier, and Henry, also a resident of Hayes township.
Carl Friedrich Just was born in Grafenhainichen, Little Saxony, Prussia the son of Gottfried Siegmund and Christiana Henrietta Concordia (Klingner) Just. The family name appears to have changed from Just to Yust shortly after they settled in America. He came to the United States on the ship Augusta, arriving in New Orleans November 11, 1855. He brought his wife Amalia and his five eldest children, Fred, Charlie, Molly, Minnie and William. He and his wife first settled in the community of Canton, Lewis County, Missouri and later moved to Reno County, Kansas where they lived the rest of their lives.
His brother, Charles Edward Yust also settled in Canton and raised his family in the area.
History of Reno County, Kansas, Vol II, 1917, pg. 420-24:
Begins and ends with history of George H. Yust.
. . .
. . . The older Fred Yust was a weaver in Germany and he and his wife were born on the say day, December 19, 1817. In 1855 they emigrated with their children to America, landing at New Orleans after a voyage of nine weeks in a sailing vessel. They proceeded thence by river steamer to Canton, Missouri, arriving there in December, 1855, and there the eldest Yust became engaged as a stone mason and continued thus occupied until the Civil War broke out, when he and his two eldest sons, Fred and Charles, enlisted in Company A., Twenty-first regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for two years, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Tupelo, Nashville and lesser engagements and in the siege and capture of the fort on Mobile bay. Upon the conclusion of his military service, the elder Yust returned to his home in Canton and resumed his occupation as stone mason and was thus engaged until 1874, in which year he came to Kansas, settling in Hayes township, this county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their days, highly respected pioneers of that neighborhood, his death occurring on May 27, 1900, his widow surviving until March 14, 1904. They were both earnest members of the German Methodist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, as follow: Fred, a priminent resident of this county, father of the subject of this biographical sketch; Charles, a veteran of the Civil War and for years a well-known resident of Reno county, who died in 1890; Amalia, who married Julius Bandhauer and died at her home in Hayes township, this state; Minnie, wife of Peter Birke, who is engaged in the agricultural implement and hardware business at Canton, Missouri; John, a well-known farmer of Hayes township, this county; Louisa, who also lives in Hayes township, widow of Wid Clothier, and Henry, also a resident of Hayes township.
Private in Co. A., 21st Missouri Vounteer Infantry.
Carl Friedrich Just was born in Grafenhainichen, Little Saxony, Prussia the son of Gottfried Siegmund and Christiana Henrietta Concordia (Klingner) Just. The family name appears to have changed from Just to Yust shortly after they settled in America. He came to the United States on the ship Augusta, arriving in New Orleans November 11, 1855. He brought his wife Amalia and his five eldest children, Fred, Charlie, Molly, Minnie and William. He and his wife first settled in the community of Canton, Lewis County, Missouri and later moved to Reno County, Kansas where they lived the rest of their lives.
His brother, Charles Edward Yust also settled in Canton and raised his family in the area.
History of Reno County, Kansas, Vol II, 1917, pg. 420-24:
Begins and ends with history of George H. Yust.
. . .
. . . The older Fred Yust was a weaver in Germany and he and his wife were born on the say day, December 19, 1817. In 1855 they emigrated with their children to America, landing at New Orleans after a voyage of nine weeks in a sailing vessel. They proceeded thence by river steamer to Canton, Missouri, arriving there in December, 1855, and there the eldest Yust became engaged as a stone mason and continued thus occupied until the Civil War broke out, when he and his two eldest sons, Fred and Charles, enlisted in Company A., Twenty-first regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for two years, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Tupelo, Nashville and lesser engagements and in the siege and capture of the fort on Mobile bay. Upon the conclusion of his military service, the elder Yust returned to his home in Canton and resumed his occupation as stone mason and was thus engaged until 1874, in which year he came to Kansas, settling in Hayes township, this county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their days, highly respected pioneers of that neighborhood, his death occurring on May 27, 1900, his widow surviving until March 14, 1904. They were both earnest members of the German Methodist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, as follow: Fred, a priminent resident of this county, father of the subject of this biographical sketch; Charles, a veteran of the Civil War and for years a well-known resident of Reno county, who died in 1890; Amalia, who married Julius Bandhauer and died at her home in Hayes township, this state; Minnie, wife of Peter Birke, who is engaged in the agricultural implement and hardware business at Canton, Missouri; John, a well-known farmer of Hayes township, this county; Louisa, who also lives in Hayes township, widow of Wid Clothier, and Henry, also a resident of Hayes township.
Carl Friedrich Just was born in Grafenhainichen, Little Saxony, Prussia the son of Gottfried Siegmund and Christiana Henrietta Concordia (Klingner) Just. The family name appears to have changed from Just to Yust shortly after they settled in America. He came to the United States on the ship Augusta, arriving in New Orleans November 11, 1855. He brought his wife Amalia and his five eldest children, Fred, Charlie, Molly, Minnie and William. He and his wife first settled in the community of Canton, Lewis County, Missouri and later moved to Reno County, Kansas where they lived the rest of their lives.
His brother, Charles Edward Yust also settled in Canton and raised his family in the area.
History of Reno County, Kansas, Vol II, 1917, pg. 420-24:
Begins and ends with history of George H. Yust.
. . .
. . . The older Fred Yust was a weaver in Germany and he and his wife were born on the say day, December 19, 1817. In 1855 they emigrated with their children to America, landing at New Orleans after a voyage of nine weeks in a sailing vessel. They proceeded thence by river steamer to Canton, Missouri, arriving there in December, 1855, and there the eldest Yust became engaged as a stone mason and continued thus occupied until the Civil War broke out, when he and his two eldest sons, Fred and Charles, enlisted in Company A., Twenty-first regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for two years, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Tupelo, Nashville and lesser engagements and in the siege and capture of the fort on Mobile bay. Upon the conclusion of his military service, the elder Yust returned to his home in Canton and resumed his occupation as stone mason and was thus engaged until 1874, in which year he came to Kansas, settling in Hayes township, this county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their days, highly respected pioneers of that neighborhood, his death occurring on May 27, 1900, his widow surviving until March 14, 1904. They were both earnest members of the German Methodist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, as follow: Fred, a priminent resident of this county, father of the subject of this biographical sketch; Charles, a veteran of the Civil War and for years a well-known resident of Reno county, who died in 1890; Amalia, who married Julius Bandhauer and died at her home in Hayes township, this state; Minnie, wife of Peter Birke, who is engaged in the agricultural implement and hardware business at Canton, Missouri; John, a well-known farmer of Hayes township, this county; Louisa, who also lives in Hayes township, widow of Wid Clothier, and Henry, also a resident of Hayes township.
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