MORTUARY RECORD GEORGE YOST George Yost was born in Seewis, Switzerland, on February 7, 1848, where he grew to manhood. At the age of fifteen years he was confirmed to the Evangelical Reformed faith. On May , 1870, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Fluetsch and to this union nine children were born. Believing in greater opportunities for his family in the New World across the ocean he, with others of his native village, immigrated to the United States, enduring storms and hardships attending such a journey at that time. Arriving in New York was but the end of a sea voyage only to begin another long overland journey to their future home on a farm just two and one-half miles west of Downs, at which place they arrived in March, 188887. In 1891, Mr. Yost became a citizen of the United States. Here, on their Kansas farm, Mr. Yost and his family suffered the hardships of pioneer life.
Mrs. Yost passed away on December 31, 1905. After this, Mr. Yost spent some years in his native village, Seewis, Switzerland. Here he was married to Miss Anna Fausch and on their return to the United States made their home in Downs.
Mr. Yost, though never rugged in physique, was always active and kept so by doing small chores about his suburban home. A familiar sight was to see him driving a faithful old horse to a buggy each day to his farm, which is tended by his son, John. Such clean, regular open-air life kept him fit.
Some years ago Mr. Yost underwent a surgical operation that was gradually sapping his life, and
his last year has been one of intense suffering, which he bore with Christian patience, often expressing a desire for the end, yet ever mindful of the grief and sorrow that would mean to his loved ones. Relief came through the messenger, Death, Friday morning, December 28, 1928, leaving to mourn his departure a loving wife, six children, 26 grandchildren and six great grandchildren and hosts of friends. The living children are: Mrs. Elizabeth Kaup, Downs; Mrs. Burga Zimmerman, Osborne; B. F. Yost, Sault Ste Marie, Canada; Mrs. Rose Smith, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Nina Donahey, Logan; John Yost, of the home place, Downs. Three children preceded their father in death: Hans, buried in Seewis, Switzerland; George, Jr., died in "Downs in August, 1924; Anna Zimmerman, at Osborne in 1926.
Had Mr. Yost lived until February 7 he would have been 80 years of age.
And thus passes another one of those who toiled and endured that this so great a heritage may be ours.
A friend he was always and a man — what more could be said.
His last hours were brightened by the presence of his son, Bartley, a US. consul stationed at Sault Ste Marie, Canada, whom he had seen for some time Weakened, beyond speech, yet he knew his son and was glad of his coming
Funeral services were held in Congregational church on Sunday afternoon, December 30, at 3:00 o'clock, conducted by Rev 'I. B. Smith, pastor of the Alton Congregational church, assisted by Revs. Cochrane, of the Downs Baptist church, and Thomsen of the Osborne Congregational church. Interment was made in the family lot in the Downs cemetery. The pall bearers were six of his grandsons, Albert Yost, Roy and Arthur Horn, Carl and George Zimmerman and Ralph Donahey.
Mrs. George Yost and children desire to extend their heartiest thanks to those who assisted during the illness of their loved one.
The Downs News and Times
Downs, Osborne Gounty, Kansas Thursday, January 3, 1929; Page 1, Col 1
(Note: this is the article as it appeared. Some info may not be correct)
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Mrs. Yost passed away on December 31, 1905. After this, Mr. Yost spent some years in his native village, Seewis, Switzerland. Here he was married to Miss Anna Fausch and on their return to the United States made their home in Downs.
Mr. Yost, though never rugged in physique, was always active and kept so by doing small chores about his suburban home. A familiar sight was to see him driving a faithful old horse to a buggy each day to his farm, which is tended by his son, John. Such clean, regular open-air life kept him fit.
Some years ago Mr. Yost underwent a surgical operation that was gradually sapping his life, and
his last year has been one of intense suffering, which he bore with Christian patience, often expressing a desire for the end, yet ever mindful of the grief and sorrow that would mean to his loved ones. Relief came through the messenger, Death, Friday morning, December 28, 1928, leaving to mourn his departure a loving wife, six children, 26 grandchildren and six great grandchildren and hosts of friends. The living children are: Mrs. Elizabeth Kaup, Downs; Mrs. Burga Zimmerman, Osborne; B. F. Yost, Sault Ste Marie, Canada; Mrs. Rose Smith, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Nina Donahey, Logan; John Yost, of the home place, Downs. Three children preceded their father in death: Hans, buried in Seewis, Switzerland; George, Jr., died in "Downs in August, 1924; Anna Zimmerman, at Osborne in 1926.
Had Mr. Yost lived until February 7 he would have been 80 years of age.
And thus passes another one of those who toiled and endured that this so great a heritage may be ours.
A friend he was always and a man — what more could be said.
His last hours were brightened by the presence of his son, Bartley, a US. consul stationed at Sault Ste Marie, Canada, whom he had seen for some time Weakened, beyond speech, yet he knew his son and was glad of his coming
Funeral services were held in Congregational church on Sunday afternoon, December 30, at 3:00 o'clock, conducted by Rev 'I. B. Smith, pastor of the Alton Congregational church, assisted by Revs. Cochrane, of the Downs Baptist church, and Thomsen of the Osborne Congregational church. Interment was made in the family lot in the Downs cemetery. The pall bearers were six of his grandsons, Albert Yost, Roy and Arthur Horn, Carl and George Zimmerman and Ralph Donahey.
Mrs. George Yost and children desire to extend their heartiest thanks to those who assisted during the illness of their loved one.
The Downs News and Times
Downs, Osborne Gounty, Kansas Thursday, January 3, 1929; Page 1, Col 1
(Note: this is the article as it appeared. Some info may not be correct)
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MORTUARY RECORD GEORGE YOST George Yost was born in Seewis, Switzerland, on February 7, 1848, where he grew to manhood. At the age of fifteen years he was confirmed to the Evangelical Reformed faith. On May , 1870, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Fluetsch and to this union nine children were born. Believing in greater opportunities for his family in the New World across the ocean he, with others of his native village, immigrated to the United States, enduring storms and hardships attending such a journey at that time. Arriving in New York was but the end of a sea voyage only to begin another long overland journey to their future home on a farm just two and one-half miles west of Downs, at which place they arrived in March, 188887. In 1891, Mr. Yost became a citizen of the United States. Here, on their Kansas farm, Mr. Yost and his family suffered the hardships of pioneer life.
Mrs. Yost passed away on December 31, 1905. After this, Mr. Yost spent some years in his native village, Seewis, Switzerland. Here he was married to Miss Anna Fausch and on their return to the United States made their home in Downs.
Mr. Yost, though never rugged in physique, was always active and kept so by doing small chores about his suburban home. A familiar sight was to see him driving a faithful old horse to a buggy each day to his farm, which is tended by his son, John. Such clean, regular open-air life kept him fit.
Some years ago Mr. Yost underwent a surgical operation that was gradually sapping his life, and
his last year has been one of intense suffering, which he bore with Christian patience, often expressing a desire for the end, yet ever mindful of the grief and sorrow that would mean to his loved ones. Relief came through the messenger, Death, Friday morning, December 28, 1928, leaving to mourn his departure a loving wife, six children, 26 grandchildren and six great grandchildren and hosts of friends. The living children are: Mrs. Elizabeth Kaup, Downs; Mrs. Burga Zimmerman, Osborne; B. F. Yost, Sault Ste Marie, Canada; Mrs. Rose Smith, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Nina Donahey, Logan; John Yost, of the home place, Downs. Three children preceded their father in death: Hans, buried in Seewis, Switzerland; George, Jr., died in "Downs in August, 1924; Anna Zimmerman, at Osborne in 1926.
Had Mr. Yost lived until February 7 he would have been 80 years of age.
And thus passes another one of those who toiled and endured that this so great a heritage may be ours.
A friend he was always and a man — what more could be said.
His last hours were brightened by the presence of his son, Bartley, a US. consul stationed at Sault Ste Marie, Canada, whom he had seen for some time Weakened, beyond speech, yet he knew his son and was glad of his coming
Funeral services were held in Congregational church on Sunday afternoon, December 30, at 3:00 o'clock, conducted by Rev 'I. B. Smith, pastor of the Alton Congregational church, assisted by Revs. Cochrane, of the Downs Baptist church, and Thomsen of the Osborne Congregational church. Interment was made in the family lot in the Downs cemetery. The pall bearers were six of his grandsons, Albert Yost, Roy and Arthur Horn, Carl and George Zimmerman and Ralph Donahey.
Mrs. George Yost and children desire to extend their heartiest thanks to those who assisted during the illness of their loved one.
The Downs News and Times
Downs, Osborne Gounty, Kansas Thursday, January 3, 1929; Page 1, Col 1
(Note: this is the article as it appeared. Some info may not be correct)
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Mrs. Yost passed away on December 31, 1905. After this, Mr. Yost spent some years in his native village, Seewis, Switzerland. Here he was married to Miss Anna Fausch and on their return to the United States made their home in Downs.
Mr. Yost, though never rugged in physique, was always active and kept so by doing small chores about his suburban home. A familiar sight was to see him driving a faithful old horse to a buggy each day to his farm, which is tended by his son, John. Such clean, regular open-air life kept him fit.
Some years ago Mr. Yost underwent a surgical operation that was gradually sapping his life, and
his last year has been one of intense suffering, which he bore with Christian patience, often expressing a desire for the end, yet ever mindful of the grief and sorrow that would mean to his loved ones. Relief came through the messenger, Death, Friday morning, December 28, 1928, leaving to mourn his departure a loving wife, six children, 26 grandchildren and six great grandchildren and hosts of friends. The living children are: Mrs. Elizabeth Kaup, Downs; Mrs. Burga Zimmerman, Osborne; B. F. Yost, Sault Ste Marie, Canada; Mrs. Rose Smith, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Nina Donahey, Logan; John Yost, of the home place, Downs. Three children preceded their father in death: Hans, buried in Seewis, Switzerland; George, Jr., died in "Downs in August, 1924; Anna Zimmerman, at Osborne in 1926.
Had Mr. Yost lived until February 7 he would have been 80 years of age.
And thus passes another one of those who toiled and endured that this so great a heritage may be ours.
A friend he was always and a man — what more could be said.
His last hours were brightened by the presence of his son, Bartley, a US. consul stationed at Sault Ste Marie, Canada, whom he had seen for some time Weakened, beyond speech, yet he knew his son and was glad of his coming
Funeral services were held in Congregational church on Sunday afternoon, December 30, at 3:00 o'clock, conducted by Rev 'I. B. Smith, pastor of the Alton Congregational church, assisted by Revs. Cochrane, of the Downs Baptist church, and Thomsen of the Osborne Congregational church. Interment was made in the family lot in the Downs cemetery. The pall bearers were six of his grandsons, Albert Yost, Roy and Arthur Horn, Carl and George Zimmerman and Ralph Donahey.
Mrs. George Yost and children desire to extend their heartiest thanks to those who assisted during the illness of their loved one.
The Downs News and Times
Downs, Osborne Gounty, Kansas Thursday, January 3, 1929; Page 1, Col 1
(Note: this is the article as it appeared. Some info may not be correct)
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