Wichita Falls Record News
Wichita Falls, Texas
Friday, November 18, 1955, front page
'Granny' Young Dies Thursday
BRECKENRIDGE, Tex., Nov. 17 (Special) - Mrs. Mary Elon Young, affectionately known as "Granny," died here Thursday evening one month and a day after celebrating her 101st birthday.
Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday from the Satterwhite Funeral Home chapel with Rev. W. E. Shipp of Fort Worth, former pastor of the Breckenridge First Methodist Church, officiating. Another service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Crowell.
Burial will be in Crowell Cemetery beside her late husband, J. Frank Young, who died in 1918.
Pallbearers will be J. W. Henry of Breckenridge, Jack Ray of Rodessa, La., W. J. Amis of Dallas, Capt. J. M. Minor of Bossier City, La., Norman Carey of Graham and Claud Addington of Breckenridge.
Though blind the past 20 years and with failing hearing recently, she remained active.
Mrs. Young was born in Henderson County, Tex., and moved to Erath County in West Texas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hightower, in 1860, in a huge wagon drawn by eight oxen and loaded with the family and household goods.
The first Hightower home when the family settled near the present community of Morgans Hill was a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor and a stick and mud chimney with the roof held down by weight poles.
At the age of 15, she became the bride of Jim Counts. They had three children, Molly Counts, John Ellis Counts and Mrs. Carey Ray.
In 1885 she married J. Frank Young and they moved to Eastland County. After his death she lived at Crowell five years before moving to Breckenridge to make her home with a grandson, the late Counts Ray.
Her three surviving grandchildren are Col. G. A. Counts of West Point, Mrs. Oma Amis of Dallas and C. M. Counts of Long Beach, Calif. Also surviving are five great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Wichita Falls, Texas
Friday, November 18, 1955, front page
'Granny' Young Dies Thursday
BRECKENRIDGE, Tex., Nov. 17 (Special) - Mrs. Mary Elon Young, affectionately known as "Granny," died here Thursday evening one month and a day after celebrating her 101st birthday.
Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday from the Satterwhite Funeral Home chapel with Rev. W. E. Shipp of Fort Worth, former pastor of the Breckenridge First Methodist Church, officiating. Another service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Crowell.
Burial will be in Crowell Cemetery beside her late husband, J. Frank Young, who died in 1918.
Pallbearers will be J. W. Henry of Breckenridge, Jack Ray of Rodessa, La., W. J. Amis of Dallas, Capt. J. M. Minor of Bossier City, La., Norman Carey of Graham and Claud Addington of Breckenridge.
Though blind the past 20 years and with failing hearing recently, she remained active.
Mrs. Young was born in Henderson County, Tex., and moved to Erath County in West Texas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hightower, in 1860, in a huge wagon drawn by eight oxen and loaded with the family and household goods.
The first Hightower home when the family settled near the present community of Morgans Hill was a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor and a stick and mud chimney with the roof held down by weight poles.
At the age of 15, she became the bride of Jim Counts. They had three children, Molly Counts, John Ellis Counts and Mrs. Carey Ray.
In 1885 she married J. Frank Young and they moved to Eastland County. After his death she lived at Crowell five years before moving to Breckenridge to make her home with a grandson, the late Counts Ray.
Her three surviving grandchildren are Col. G. A. Counts of West Point, Mrs. Oma Amis of Dallas and C. M. Counts of Long Beach, Calif. Also surviving are five great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Wichita Falls Record News
Wichita Falls, Texas
Friday, November 18, 1955, front page
'Granny' Young Dies Thursday
BRECKENRIDGE, Tex., Nov. 17 (Special) - Mrs. Mary Elon Young, affectionately known as "Granny," died here Thursday evening one month and a day after celebrating her 101st birthday.
Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday from the Satterwhite Funeral Home chapel with Rev. W. E. Shipp of Fort Worth, former pastor of the Breckenridge First Methodist Church, officiating. Another service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Crowell.
Burial will be in Crowell Cemetery beside her late husband, J. Frank Young, who died in 1918.
Pallbearers will be J. W. Henry of Breckenridge, Jack Ray of Rodessa, La., W. J. Amis of Dallas, Capt. J. M. Minor of Bossier City, La., Norman Carey of Graham and Claud Addington of Breckenridge.
Though blind the past 20 years and with failing hearing recently, she remained active.
Mrs. Young was born in Henderson County, Tex., and moved to Erath County in West Texas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hightower, in 1860, in a huge wagon drawn by eight oxen and loaded with the family and household goods.
The first Hightower home when the family settled near the present community of Morgans Hill was a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor and a stick and mud chimney with the roof held down by weight poles.
At the age of 15, she became the bride of Jim Counts. They had three children, Molly Counts, John Ellis Counts and Mrs. Carey Ray.
In 1885 she married J. Frank Young and they moved to Eastland County. After his death she lived at Crowell five years before moving to Breckenridge to make her home with a grandson, the late Counts Ray.
Her three surviving grandchildren are Col. G. A. Counts of West Point, Mrs. Oma Amis of Dallas and C. M. Counts of Long Beach, Calif. Also surviving are five great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Wichita Falls, Texas
Friday, November 18, 1955, front page
'Granny' Young Dies Thursday
BRECKENRIDGE, Tex., Nov. 17 (Special) - Mrs. Mary Elon Young, affectionately known as "Granny," died here Thursday evening one month and a day after celebrating her 101st birthday.
Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday from the Satterwhite Funeral Home chapel with Rev. W. E. Shipp of Fort Worth, former pastor of the Breckenridge First Methodist Church, officiating. Another service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Crowell.
Burial will be in Crowell Cemetery beside her late husband, J. Frank Young, who died in 1918.
Pallbearers will be J. W. Henry of Breckenridge, Jack Ray of Rodessa, La., W. J. Amis of Dallas, Capt. J. M. Minor of Bossier City, La., Norman Carey of Graham and Claud Addington of Breckenridge.
Though blind the past 20 years and with failing hearing recently, she remained active.
Mrs. Young was born in Henderson County, Tex., and moved to Erath County in West Texas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hightower, in 1860, in a huge wagon drawn by eight oxen and loaded with the family and household goods.
The first Hightower home when the family settled near the present community of Morgans Hill was a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor and a stick and mud chimney with the roof held down by weight poles.
At the age of 15, she became the bride of Jim Counts. They had three children, Molly Counts, John Ellis Counts and Mrs. Carey Ray.
In 1885 she married J. Frank Young and they moved to Eastland County. After his death she lived at Crowell five years before moving to Breckenridge to make her home with a grandson, the late Counts Ray.
Her three surviving grandchildren are Col. G. A. Counts of West Point, Mrs. Oma Amis of Dallas and C. M. Counts of Long Beach, Calif. Also surviving are five great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
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