m. Aaron Yost, farmer and teacher, on 19 October 1888.
Children: Dale M., Verne W., and Lloyd A. Yost.
After Aaron's early death, Rena continued to live on the farm until her sons reached college age. Then she moved into West Lafayette and ran a boarding house so they could attend and graduate from Purdue University. She then returned to the homestead in Perry Township. Late in life she contracted tuberculosis. She lived for a while with her son Dale in Dayton, Indiana. She then went to live with her son Verne in Chicago and died in the Fresh Air Sanitarium there.
Sources: Obituary, Rena Yost, date and source unknown; Yost, Lloyd A., The Jacob Yost Genealogy, 1979; Yost, Lloyd A., and Verne W. Yost, A History of the Rena and Aaron Yost Family, 1980; Yost, Kenneth E., Biography of My Parents, Dale Merle Yost and Cora Gingrich Yost, 1993; Hansell, Donald W., Jacob and Maria Yost and Their Descendants, 1985.
Compiled & Submitted by: Susan Yost Clawson. Posted on Rootsweb.
m. Aaron Yost, farmer and teacher, on 19 October 1888.
Children: Dale M., Verne W., and Lloyd A. Yost.
After Aaron's early death, Rena continued to live on the farm until her sons reached college age. Then she moved into West Lafayette and ran a boarding house so they could attend and graduate from Purdue University. She then returned to the homestead in Perry Township. Late in life she contracted tuberculosis. She lived for a while with her son Dale in Dayton, Indiana. She then went to live with her son Verne in Chicago and died in the Fresh Air Sanitarium there.
Sources: Obituary, Rena Yost, date and source unknown; Yost, Lloyd A., The Jacob Yost Genealogy, 1979; Yost, Lloyd A., and Verne W. Yost, A History of the Rena and Aaron Yost Family, 1980; Yost, Kenneth E., Biography of My Parents, Dale Merle Yost and Cora Gingrich Yost, 1993; Hansell, Donald W., Jacob and Maria Yost and Their Descendants, 1985.
Compiled & Submitted by: Susan Yost Clawson. Posted on Rootsweb.
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