James T. Yount

H. W. Beckwith, History of Vermilion County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1879)

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James T. Yount, Fairmount, farmer, was born in Gallion County, Kentucky, on the 30th of March, 1813, and came to Vermillion County with his parents in 1829, and first located eight miles west of where M Yount now resides. One of Mr. Yount Brothers was in the Blackhawk war. Mr. Yount has been twice married. His former wife was Emaline Halden. They were married in 1857. She was born in Monroe County, Virginia, on the 23rd of March, 1841, and died in 1864. His second marriage was to Eliza E. Worl, on the 22nd of June, 1877. She was born in 1849. Mr. Yount has two children by his former wife: Mary E. and William G., and one by his present wife: Charles.