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Submitted: 9/7/19 • Approved: 9/7/19 • Last Updated: 9/10/19 • R821800-G821799-S3
Benjamin
Mar 9, 1851 WV
Sep 16, 1937
Son of Aaron Young and Margaret Smith
Emily
Feb 14, 1857
Jul 2, 1907
Daughter of William C. and Eliza A. Clark Elmore
Benjamin W. Young, one of the oldest and most highly respected residents of the Gibbs vicinity and only brother of Mrs. Matilda Moncrief of this city, who is now in her ninety-fifth year, died at his home near Gibbs last Thursday at the age of eighty-six years after being in failing health for the past two years.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2:00 at the Methodist Church in Gibbs, conducted by Rev. J.H. Lane of Brashear and burial was made in the Union Cemetery at Gibbs.
Mr. Young was the son of Aaron and Margaret Smith Young and was born in Marshall County, West Virginia, March 8, 1851. His mother died when he was six weeks old and he was reared by an uncle and aunt, Frederick and Mary Smith. When he was eight months old the family moved in a linch pin wagon to Lee County, Iowa where they lived until 1857. They then moved to Gibbs and settled on the farm which Mr. Young owned at the time of his death.
He married October 17, 1872 to Miss Emily Elmore and thirteen children were born to the union. One child died in infancy, a daughter, Mrs. Verna Davidson, died April 30, 1914 and another daughter, Mrs. Daisy Walters, died May 28, 1926. Mrs. Young died July 2, 1917.
The surviving children are Mrs. Fred Calef, W.H. Young and T.M. Young all of Gibbs, S.E. Young of Los Angeles, Mrs. Sam Davidson of Ontario, California, Mrs. Frank McKee of Delta, California, Mrs. Truman Dennis of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Paul Young of Upland, California, John Young of Rupert, Idaho and Homer Young of Wadsworth, Kansas, twenty-five grandchildren and fourteen
great-grandchildren.
LaPlata Home Press
LaPlata, Missouri
September 23, 1937
Photo donated by Larry and Susan Olson
Contributed on 9/7/19
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