YOUNGBLOOD, Minnie - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Source: Unknown newspaper (in a booklet of obits collected by Claudine Sowers Yerkes, given to me by Betty Dotson) hand printed “1943”

Kingman, Dec 28 – Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Youngblood, 82 who died Monday morning at her home southeast of Kingman will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday with burial in Cashatt Cemetery. Home Davies Funeral Home is in charge. Mrs. Youngblood had been ill the past two weeks with influenza but her death was unexpected. She was born April 26, 1861 a daughter of Miles and Elmira Jane Ratcliff of the farm adjoining the one upon which she was residing before her death. She was married to Owen E. Youngblood of the Steam Corner vicinity who preceded her in death 15 years ago. She was a life member of the Pleasant Grove Christian Church and the past 20 years had served on the advisory board of Parke County. Surviving are two children, Harry Youngblood of Terre Haute and Helen Hixon of Anderson, Ind.  Also surviving are six grandchildren, three of whom she reared from infancy. – kbz