Person:Lydia O'Brien (2)

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Obituary of Lydia O'Brien Youngs. Nov 12, 1893. Lydia O'Brien was b orn in Christendom Co., Vermont, Dec. 25, 1800, where her childhood and y oung girlhood were spent. She removed to the Western Reserve in 1817, l ocating with her family at Brecksville, where in 1819 she married the l ate Thos. O. Youngs. For something like twenty years they resided on a f arm, where the part of the city of Cleveland, known as West Cleveland n ow stands. In the spring of 1838 Mr. Youngs came to this vicinity an d bought a claim of several hundred acres. Returning to Ohio, he broug ht in the fall of the same year the little mother and family west. The t edious journey was made as comfortable as possible. A large family car riage being the conveyance for the mother and younger members of the fa mily. On their arrival they located on the place where the remainder o f their lives were spent. There were ten children, eight of them sur viving their parents. Mrs. Youngs possessed many rare characteristic s. Her Irish and Scotch parentage were very discernable in her spontan eous wit and her steadfastness of purpose. She was of a buoyant, hopef ul temperament and it stood her in good stead during the more than fort y years that she was a confirmed invalid. No one ever heard a complain t from her lips. She believed that "all things work together for good" a nd that "he that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a c ity." So believing she lived. Her life was a marvel to those about her o f patient endurance. There are few who surpassed her as a Bible studen t. She was unassuming and modest in her religious life--yet always ste adfast and unfaltering. She was a member of the Methodist church at Pa ynes Point some forty-two or three years. Letter writing was one of h er pleasures and not more than a month before her death she wrote to on e of her daughters. During the many years of her invalid life she re tained to a marked degree her interest in the outside world. While ( as it has been said) there was much of the improvements and inventions o f these latter years that were denied her, yet her interest in them was p art of her life. She was deeply interested in all matters of our progr essive civilization, though necessarily deprived of a personal enjoymen t of many of them. Presidential campaigns (even the last one) were m atters of anxiety and solicitude. Her patriotism was unflagging even i n the latter years of feebleness. After ten days illness her release f rom suffering came. She sleeps because of the weight of her years, hav ing fallen asleep at the advanced age of ninety-two years, ten months a nd seventeen days. She passed quietly to her rest, to awake in the l ikeness of Him she so faithfully served. Agnes has Lydia as being born in Montpelier, Washington, VT.

1. ↑ Diane Mills Clawson. WorldConnect database=89dee, Rootsweb.com.

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2. ↑ Diane Mills Clawson. WorldConnect database=89dee, Rootsweb.com.

   Date of Import: Mar 23, 2008

3. ↑ Diane Mills Clawson. WorldConnect database=89dee, Rootsweb.com.

   Date of Import: Mar 23, 2008

4. ↑ Diane Mills Clawson. WorldConnect database=89dee, Rootsweb.com.

   Date of Import: Mar 23, 2008