This is my Great-Grandfather my Grandmother's dad and my mom's Grandfather.
George W. Yount Sr. was born October 5, 1837 to Gabrial and Mariah E. Yount in Haskins, Ohio. George grew up in this area, then a wildness, and on April 29, 1863, married Sophronia E Cobley, daughter of Sebastian and Elizabeth Buriger Cobley. The George Yount family stayed in Haskins. He help to develop this community near Bowling Green, Ohio.
As a child, George lived in the usual family dwelling and was one of the early settlers to survive the winter of 1842-43.
The late Mr. C. W. Evers some years since wrote up the following account of the severe winter of 1842-43, in Wood County:
J. R. Tracy of Toledo, who was an early pioneer of Bowling Green, tells some of the incidents of the memorable hard winter of 1842-43 which referred to by all old people as a record breaker unsurpassed since white men planted their cabins in this parts if the country.
The autumn of 1842 had been a mild and delightful one. The mazy Indian summer had hung over the landscape like a protecting curtain form the chill blasts of boreas. On the 25th day of November in the after part of the day, came a change, sudden and severe. First dark, dense clouds overcast the sky; toward night rain fell. This soon changed to sleet, driven by a strong wind and so cold that men caught out with teams on the road had to leave their wagons and walk to keep from freezing. This later turn to snow which covered the ground heavily in the morning.
That snow increased in depth from time to time, lay until sometime in April, 1843. The ice in the Maumee at Watervillle was frozen solid down to the rocks on the day of spring election in April that year.
I would like to thank Charles R. Geach for making and transferring my Grandmother's memorial to me.
George W. Yount Sr. was born October 5, 1837 to Gabrial and Mariah E. Yount in Haskins, Ohio. George grew up in this area, then a wildness, and on April 29, 1863, married Sophronia E Cobley, daughter of Sebastian and Elizabeth Buriger Cobley. The George Yount family stayed in Haskins. He help to develop this community near Bowling Green, Ohio.
As a child, George lived in the usual family dwelling and was one of the early settlers to survive the winter of 1842-43.
The late Mr. C. W. Evers some years since wrote up the following account of the severe winter of 1842-43, in Wood County:
J. R. Tracy of Toledo, who was an early pioneer of Bowling Green, tells some of the incidents of the memorable hard winter of 1842-43 which referred to by all old people as a record breaker unsurpassed since white men planted their cabins in this parts if the country.
The autumn of 1842 had been a mild and delightful one. The mazy Indian summer had hung over the landscape like a protecting curtain form the chill blasts of boreas. On the 25th day of November in the after part of the day, came a change, sudden and severe. First dark, dense clouds overcast the sky; toward night rain fell. This soon changed to sleet, driven by a strong wind and so cold that men caught out with teams on the road had to leave their wagons and walk to keep from freezing. This later turn to snow which covered the ground heavily in the morning.
That snow increased in depth from time to time, lay until sometime in April, 1843. The ice in the Maumee at Watervillle was frozen solid down to the rocks on the day of spring election in April that year.
I would like to thank Charles R. Geach for making and transferring my Grandmother's memorial to me.
This is my Great-Grandfather my Grandmother's dad and my mom's Grandfather.
George W. Yount Sr. was born October 5, 1837 to Gabrial and Mariah E. Yount in Haskins, Ohio. George grew up in this area, then a wildness, and on April 29, 1863, married Sophronia E Cobley, daughter of Sebastian and Elizabeth Buriger Cobley. The George Yount family stayed in Haskins. He help to develop this community near Bowling Green, Ohio.
As a child, George lived in the usual family dwelling and was one of the early settlers to survive the winter of 1842-43.
The late Mr. C. W. Evers some years since wrote up the following account of the severe winter of 1842-43, in Wood County:
J. R. Tracy of Toledo, who was an early pioneer of Bowling Green, tells some of the incidents of the memorable hard winter of 1842-43 which referred to by all old people as a record breaker unsurpassed since white men planted their cabins in this parts if the country.
The autumn of 1842 had been a mild and delightful one. The mazy Indian summer had hung over the landscape like a protecting curtain form the chill blasts of boreas. On the 25th day of November in the after part of the day, came a change, sudden and severe. First dark, dense clouds overcast the sky; toward night rain fell. This soon changed to sleet, driven by a strong wind and so cold that men caught out with teams on the road had to leave their wagons and walk to keep from freezing. This later turn to snow which covered the ground heavily in the morning.
That snow increased in depth from time to time, lay until sometime in April, 1843. The ice in the Maumee at Watervillle was frozen solid down to the rocks on the day of spring election in April that year.
I would like to thank Charles R. Geach for making and transferring my Grandmother's memorial to me.
George W. Yount Sr. was born October 5, 1837 to Gabrial and Mariah E. Yount in Haskins, Ohio. George grew up in this area, then a wildness, and on April 29, 1863, married Sophronia E Cobley, daughter of Sebastian and Elizabeth Buriger Cobley. The George Yount family stayed in Haskins. He help to develop this community near Bowling Green, Ohio.
As a child, George lived in the usual family dwelling and was one of the early settlers to survive the winter of 1842-43.
The late Mr. C. W. Evers some years since wrote up the following account of the severe winter of 1842-43, in Wood County:
J. R. Tracy of Toledo, who was an early pioneer of Bowling Green, tells some of the incidents of the memorable hard winter of 1842-43 which referred to by all old people as a record breaker unsurpassed since white men planted their cabins in this parts if the country.
The autumn of 1842 had been a mild and delightful one. The mazy Indian summer had hung over the landscape like a protecting curtain form the chill blasts of boreas. On the 25th day of November in the after part of the day, came a change, sudden and severe. First dark, dense clouds overcast the sky; toward night rain fell. This soon changed to sleet, driven by a strong wind and so cold that men caught out with teams on the road had to leave their wagons and walk to keep from freezing. This later turn to snow which covered the ground heavily in the morning.
That snow increased in depth from time to time, lay until sometime in April, 1843. The ice in the Maumee at Watervillle was frozen solid down to the rocks on the day of spring election in April that year.
I would like to thank Charles R. Geach for making and transferring my Grandmother's memorial to me.
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