Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  DeYoung, Mrs. Emma, 1949
Tuesday, August 1, 2000

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    Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                        Mrs. Emma DeYoung Funeral Services Held May 30th

  Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Cloud DeYoung, 73, who spent about half a century
in Kimble County, were held Monday afternoon, May 30th, from the Junction Methodist
Church with the Rev. James B. Jordan, Methodist minister, officiating, assisted by
the Rev. Olen D. Welch, Baptist minister.  The Smith Funeral Home directed.  Burial
was made in the Junction cemetery under auspices of the OES.
  Mrs. DeYoung died Sunday morning in her home, the old rock house on the ranch of
her parents the late Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Cloud with whom she moved to Kimble in 1880.
She had suffered a heart ailment for several years but was ill only a few hours before
her death.  She and the brother Horton Cloud returned here only two weeks previous to
her death after an extended stay in Moore, Texas.
  On March 4, 1895, she was married at the residence of George Harris in Ennis, Texas,
and lived there for awhile, later moving to Shreveport, La.  From there she returned 
to Kimble in 1915, and since that time the old rock house where she spent her girlhood
had been home.  She was born in Austin, May 9, 1876.
  She is survived by one son, W. C. DeYoung of Bossier City, La., and one grandchild,
Barbara Ann DeYoung.  Her other son, Charlie died in Chicago on March 25, 1949.  Her
only daughter, Emma, died in infancy.
  Other survivors include four sisters, Mrs. Sallie Nelson, Junction; Mrs. Maggie
Harding, New Orleans, La.; Mrs. Sue Benthal, Madisonville, La.; Mrs. Julia Fargason, 
Moore, Texas; two brothers, W. H. Cloud, Junction and R. W. Cloud, Fort Worth.
  Pall bearers were Frank Patterson, Loss Davis, J. O. Wright, S. O. Durst, Ben Neal
and Elmer Harrison.
  Among those from out-of-town here for the funeral services were B. W. Cloud, Fort
Worth; Mrs. Julia Fargason, Moore; Mr. and Mrs. Zens Forester, Devine; Mrs. A. J.
Bierschwale and son, Oliver, San Antonio; Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Heffernon, Mrs. Annie
Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Rogers and daughter, Mt. Home; Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Stevens,
Harper and Mrs. ... (rest of article cut off)
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