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Joseph Davis Yonts & Delia L. Kingsley

Joseph Davis Yonts
Born: October 25, 1841, Paradise, Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky
Married: November 14, 1871, Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky
Died: June 9, 1896, Greenville, Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Greenville, Kentucky
Father: Philip Yonts Jr.
Mother: Frances Adeline Heck

Joseph D. Yonts served in the Civil War: Company H, 11th KY Infantry Federal, First Lt.

Lieutenant Joseph Davis Yonts was born near Paradise, October 24, 1841, and died in Greenville June, 1896. When the Eleventh Kentucky Infantry (Federal) was organizing he enlisted as a private in Company H, and after the battle of Shiloh became first lieutenant. Although he was wounded a number of times, he remained with his company until the close of the war. Immediately after the war he removed to Greevnille, and for more than thirty years took an active interest in the business affairs of the town. In 1865 he became a clerk in the store of Edward R. Weir, Sr., and continued in that work until the Greenville Grange Store was organized. He and Joseph G. Ellison managed this cooperative store during the few years of its existence. In the latter part of the seventies he and his brother, Edward L. Yonts, began rehandling tobacco in Greenville, and continued in that business until 1880, when they opened a drug store on the northeast corner of Main and Main Cross streets. A few years later he bought his brother's interest in this store, and remained in the drug business until the time of his death.

Joseph D. Yonts was a son of Philip Yonts and his wife Adaline Davis Yonts. In 1872 he married Delia L. Kingsley, daughter of Edward Kingsley of Rochester and his wife Mary Susan Myers, daughter of David Myers of Myers' Chapel. Their only son is Morton K. Yonts, now of the Louisville bar.
Source: A History of Muhlenberg County Kentucky by Otto A. Rothert, page 337

Wife: Delia L. Kingsley
Born: August 30, 1848, Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky
Died: June 27, 1876, Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Greenville, Kentucky
Father: Edward Kingsley
Mother: Susan Mary E. Myers
Note: Middle name is possibly “Susan”

Children of Joseph Yonts & Delia Kingsley:

  1. Morton Kingsley Yonts, born January 14, 1874, Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky; died February 22, 1944, Louisville, Jefferson Co., Kentucky; buried Frankfort, Franklin Co., Kentucky. See his Death Certificate
  2. Mary Adeline Yonts, born May 31, 1876, Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky; died June 22, 1876, Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky; buried Evergreen Cemetery, Greenville, Kentucky

Sources: Muhlenberg County Kentucky Cemeteries Book 3 and 4; Kentucky Marriages 1851-1900; 1876 Deaths - Muhlenberg County Vital Statistics; Muhlenberg County Marriage Book 2; History of Muhlenberg County Kentucky by Otto A. Rothert, pg. 337; Kentucky Death Certificate; Muhlenberg Co. Census 1850-1910; 1910 Miracode Index: McLean Co., Kentucky.

Updated August 9, 2017