WILLIAM YOUNG DIES TWELVE DAYS AFTER WIFE.
Fatal Heart Attack Suffered by Former Miner While Visiting Near Oakdale.
Twelve days after the death of his wife, William Young, 67 year old
former local miner, died of a heart attach while visiting a friend,
William Black, in his boyhood home near Oakdale, Ill., at 11 o'clock
Saturday night. The attack came one hour before he died.
By a strange coincident, his wife also died of heart trouble. She fell
dead in their home here on January 6.
Mr. Young was a native of the Oakdale vicinity and was born on April 11,
1868. He married Miss Flora Viola Hampton in Belleville on November 21,
1898.
He leaves three sons, Leonard and Carsel of Marissa, and Wilford of
Pinckneyville; a daughter, Mrs. Stella William of Marissa, and three
grandchildren.
The body was brought to the home of his brother-in-law, William Hampton
here Sunday night where it remained until the funeral at 2 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. Then the body was taken to the Baptist Church where
Rev. J. H. Schiebe, the pastor conducted services. Burial was in the
Marissa Cemetery.
