YELTON, William B.

Local and Personal.

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W. B. Yelton, age sixty years, died Monday morning at four o’clock at his home near Amity. He had been in failing health for many years, and his death was not unexpected. Deceased was a well-known and respected citizen. He leaves a wife and three children. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at the Baptist church in Amity, conducted by Rev. E. S. Gardner and Rev. P. O. Duncan. Burial at Second Mt. Pleasant church.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 19, 1900,
Volume XL Number 29, page 5 column 1

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OBITUARY.

Again and again are we called upon to recount the sad events of life as they come to us. To pay a tribute of respect to our loved and lost is always a sad pleasure. God in His wisdom calls and one by one our dear ones leave us. “Though we are left sad and lonely, yet we know he doeth all things well.”

Wm. B. Yelton was born in Campbell County, Kentucky, May 17, 1840, and came to Johnson County, Ind. about the year 1867. He married Mary E. Mo­zingo, daughter of Joseph and Julia Owens Mozingo, April 7, 1869. To them, were born three children—one son and two daughters. These with the faithful wife are left to mourn. Three sisters and two brothers are bereft by his departure.

He accepted Christ as his Saviour and united with the 2nd Mt. Pleasant Baptist church Feb. 1868, and was baptized by the Rev. I. N. Clark. Jan 1892 he united with the Amity church remaining a member until called to his reward.

He served his church as clerk until failing health made it necessary for him to resign. He served the Sunday school as superintendent and was an honored deacon in his church at the time of his death, which occurred Dec. 25, 1899. His age was 59 years, 7 months and eight days.

His church and Sunday School will sadly miss so devoted a helper but may his life and words of counsel be an inspiration for more consecrated Chris­tian workers.

For years he was a great sufferer but he bore with marked patience and Christian endurance his great afflictions, praying as the suffering increased that death would relieve him. He prayed most earnestly for God’s blessing to be with each one who had administered words of cheer or deeds of kindness during his long illness. A short time before his death he took his little daughter in arms and prayed that God’s care and protection would abide with her, adding a Christian father’s bene­diction. This was a scene long to be remembered. Committing his wife and children to the care of the Lord he believed all would be well with them. Although he is gone from us and the home circle is broken they mourn not as those who have no hope of a re­union. He left his family a rich legacy—the memory of a father who pos­sessed many of the traits of a most noble Christian character. To know him was to love and honor. His attitude to­ward all things of right and his keen sense of Christian living won for himself many friends and few, if any, enemies. He was a true Christian and has fallen asleep and crossed into the beyond to receive the faithful servant’s reward.

Funeral services were held at Amity and were in charge of Revs. Gardiner and Duncan. The burial was in charge of the K. of P. order of which he was an honored member. His body was laid to rest in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. E. G. Barnhizer funeral director.
Jana Owens.

Link to William B. Yelton’s grave

Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Health Officer’s Record Number 2, page 201, records that William B. Yelton died from renal insufficiency due to general arterial sclerosis at 4:00 a. m. on 23 Dec 1899 in Blue River Township, Johnson County, Indiana, aged fifty-eight years. He was married and a farmer, born in Campbell County, Kentucky. His father’s name was Yelton, and his mother’s name Honey, both born in Kentucky. He was buried in 2nd Mt. Pleasant on 27 Dec 1899, undertaker E. G. Barnhizer.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson