Artie was born 17 May 1897 in Texas, probably in Hamilton County as her parents married there in 1896 and were there at the time of the 1900 census.

1900 census - Hamilton Co TX
John William McKay, his wife Rhetta McKay, his mother Sarah Sophronia McKay and his siblings Lomie, Ida, Tom and Zedie are listed in the 1900 census, enumerated in June. Rhetta is said to have no children though she would have had Artie and Homer by this time.

1910 census - Stonewall Co TX
McKay JW head 38 farmer rents farm, Rhetta wife 29 seven children all living, Artie 12, Homer 11, Charlie 9, William 7, Tressa 5, Nola 3, Alpha 1. Rhetta is recorded as having no occupation. Artie, Homer and Charles laborers on home farm. John was born in Alabama, others in Texas.

Artie married Jurd William Young (1891-1976) 20 September 1914 in Fisher Co TX (Texas Marriage Index). Jurd was born the son of Walter Whitman Young (1850-1922) and Mary Jane Osborne (1859-1917) 29 Nov 1891 in Texas.

Son William Walter Ollie Young (1915-2006) born 10 March 1915 in Stonewall Co TX.

Jurd registered for the WWI draft 5 June 1917 at Tahoka Texas, giving his address as Post TX. He claims an exemption as he has a wife and child. Tall, blue eyes, brown hair.

1920 census - Lynn Co TX
Jurd W Young head 28 farmer, Artie F Young wife 22, O W William Young son 4, Homer J McKay brother-in- law 21 farmer, Charles T McKay brother-in-law 19 farmer.

Birth of son Shirley Jurd Young (1935-2021) 16 August 1935 in Lynn Co TX.

Residence in 1937 Post TX ('Family Reunion is Birthday Celebration,' Abilene Reporter-News, 5 Aug 1937). 'Attending the reunion were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Young, Post . . .'

1940 census - Lynn Co TX
Young, Jurd W head 48 farmer, Artie F 42 wife, Surman G son 16, Shirley J son 4. The family lived in the same house 1 April 1935. Home owned.

Jurd William Young, 50, registered for the WWII draft 27 April 1942 in Tahoka TX, giving his residence as Tahoka, Lynn, Texas and his mailing address as Route 2, Post TX. Farmer.

Lynn County is adjacent to and west of Garza County. Post is in Garza County. According to Wikipedia 'Post is located on the edge of the caprock escarpment of the Llano Estacado, the southeastern edge of the Great Plains.'

1950 census - Gordon Farm to Market Road, Lynn Co TX
Young Jurd W head 48 farmer, Artie F wife 53 keeping house, Shirley E son 14.

'Mrs. J. W. Young, daughter, Post Texas' was the informant on her mother's death certificate (La Rhetta McKay died 1 Feb 1961).

Jurd died 31 December 1978. His birth certificate records his usual residence as Two Draw Lake (rural), Post, Garza, Texas.

Alta's obituary (Lubbock Evening Journal, 26 Mar 1984) mentions her ten surviving sisters including 'Artie Young, Tressie Thompson, Maudie Dobbs, all of Post.' The widowed sisters lived on Two Draw Lake in Post, Garza, Texas. Grandmother had her own house. Artie and Tressie may have shared a home. I visited them there about 1979 with my son John.

Artie died 22 August 1985 in Garza Co TX. Last residence: 79356, Post, Garza, Texas. (Social Security Death Index)

Artie and Jurd share a gravestone at the historic Terrace Cemetery in Post. The stone is inscribed with the words father and mother and with the date of their marriage.