Mr. Harrison Yount, an old citizen of Tippecanoe and well-known, died at his home on Hyatt St. after an illness of thirteen weeks. Harrison Yount, the third child of Insco and Isabelle Yount, was born November 19, 1850, three miles south of Frederick, on the Waymire homestead adjoining Polk Church. His boyhood was spent in this locality, and when he was entering into young manhood the family, then consisting of father, mother and three children, moved to Tippecanoe City where the father engaged in business.

January 16, 1870, Harrison was married to Adelaide Collins who, with twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, mourn the loss of a devoted husband and loving father.

For several years after his marriage he was employed by the Rhodehamel Oil Mill Co. which was then located on East Main St. After this plant was destroyed by fire, he was employed at the American Glucose Building which is now better known as the Old Sugar Mill. Here he worked until the night of December 5, 1888, at which time the mill exploded and in which he received painful spinal injuries. Of these he complained until the time of his death.

The year 1895 he spent in Peoria, Illinois, where he was employed by the Rhodehamel Glucose Mill Co. After his return, he engaged in different kinds of labor; the most permanent of which was his employment with the Bell Telephone Company, where he worked up to the time of his illness.

On the evening of July 16, 1906, he was stricken with paralysis which affected his entire left side and caused his death. During his long and severe suffering of thirteen weeks, he was very patient, seldom complaining and found comfort in the thought that God's will, not his, must be done. He had constant trust and faith in the Lord, and his prayer and conversation was always that his family should so live that they might join him in his future home, where he would be waiting with other loved ones.

On the morning of October 13, 1906, at the age of 55 years, 10 months and 24 days, the death summons beckoned him and he sweetly passed away like the closing of a summer day.

Besides his immediate family, he leaves an aged mother; one sister; one brother, now residing in Troy, O.; and five grandchildren who all have the consolation that if they live true to God they will meet him in his heavenly home.

The wife and family have the sympathy of the community.