Andrew Young, Sr.
Andrew Young, sr., was born at Undenheim, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, May 7th, 1826. He finished the schools of his native town at the age of fourteen, after which time he served an apprenticeship in a wholesale dry goods establishment. In this firm, by his integrity and tact, he was promoted from one position of trust to another until he came to America in 1849.
After spending a year at Cleveland, Ohio, he went to Columbus, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business.
On the 25th of June, 1854, he married Edvinna Brand, of Columbus. Of this union five sons and five daughters were born and have grown up in our midst. There are also ten grand children. The eldest daughter, Edvinna--the first white child born in Arizona--died in August 1875, of Typhoid fever; and William H., the fourth son, died in August, 1895, of the same fever. Three sons and two daughters are married.
The widow and the eight children were together to lay the loved and honored father to rest.
IN NEBRASKA
In 1856, Mr. Young came to Burt county and engaged in farming. Being a pioneer settler he encountered all the hardships of frontier life.
Western life in those days meant for more of hardship, exposure and peril than western life of today with the many railway lines crossing the prairie.
During the first years of his residence in Nebraska, he was frequently called upon to protect his family from indignities by the Indians and in so doing subjected both them and himself to the dangers of the tomahawk and scalping knife. Hardships were encountered as he met the furious blizzards of the treeless prairies while bringing provisions and other supplies from Omaha which for nearly fifteen years was his nearest source of supply, Still he did not die a very young man and retained his activity of mind and body up to the time of his last illness.
CHARACTER
He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran church in his native country and maintained his connection with the same.
LATE ILLNESS
His first attack was a stroke of Apoplexy from which he soon seemed to rally and improve rapidly, a week later paralysis of the right side, followed and he gradually sank away until he breathed his last on Monday afternoon, February 24, 1896.
Before the paralysis came on and he became speechless, he expressed his fears as to the nature of his sickness and said he was ready to go to meet his master. His death was very quiet and without a struggle.
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DIED--At his home five miles east of Oakland, on February 24th, Andrew Young, sr., aged 67 years and nine months. Mr. Young was born in Darmstadt, Germany on the Rhine, in May, 1828, but removed to the United States when a young man. He was married in Columbus, O., in 1855, and with his wife came to reside in Burt county when it was little more than a wilderness in 1856. He first settled on a piece of land nearly east of Tekamah, but soon removed to a farm near Arizona postoffice where he continued to reside until 1879, when he came to the farm where he died, thus making him a continuous resident of Burt county for forty years. He leaves surviving him a widow and eight children, four sons and four daughters all grown, and highly regarded. The funeral took place Wednesday afternoon at Grace church, Rev. W.A. Lipe preaching the sermon, and coming from Wisconsin to do so. His children were all present at the funeral and all were with him during the last hours of his illness excepting a son and daughter who reside in Denver, and did not reach here until after his death. Paralysis was the immediate cause of his demise although he had suffered slightly from appoplexy. The funeral was largely attended by the old pioneer residents of the county, whose sorrows and sympathy mingled with the grief of the stricken family as with heavy hearts they followed the loved form to its last resting place in Grace cemetery.
These extracts are from the Oakland Independent (Oakland, Nebraska).