Thomas County KS Archives Obituaries.....YOUNG, Rufus Albert October 8, 1917
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The Colby Free Press,Thomas County,ThursdayOctober 11, 1917,

Rufus Albert YOUNG, was born in Knox County, Illinois about 60 years ago. The
exact record of his birth was not at hand. He spent his young in early manhood
in Illinois. At the age of 28 he came to Nebraska where he lived about two years
when he came to Kansas. In Kansas he lived three or four years. From Kansas he
went to California locating near Los Angeles. While there he was engaged as
foreman of one of the sugar beet companies, and during the building of the Los
Angeles Aqueduct he was also foreman of one division of workman.
He was married in 1888. One son, Earl, was born to this union. The son is still
living and is somewhere on the high seas not knowing of his father's death.
About six months ago Mr. Young returnd to Kansas to visit his two brothers. When
he first came he talked of returning to California, but finally decided to
remain in Kansas. He had been in poor health for some time but not at any time
was he confined to his bed. On Monday evening he ate his supper as usual and
retired to the bed room. After sitting on the bed for a few minutes he seemed to
be taken with pain in the region of the heart. He lay back gently with his feet
still on the floor and was gone, not more than twenty minutes after supper. The
Psalmist said: "In the morning they are like the grass which groweth up. In the
morning it florisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth."
He leaves two brothers, Robert of Colby, and Charles with whom he was making his
home and an only son, Earl. The bereaved have the sympathy of many friends and
neighbors. The services were held at the home of Charles Young eleven and
one-half miles northeast of Colby, and interment made in Colby cemetery.

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