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WILLIAM H. YOUART, late of this township, deceased. The subject of this memoir was born in Ireland in 1796, and came to America about the year 1818, settled in Miami Co., Ohio, where he followed farming and working at his trade, that of wheelwright, with the exception of five years’ residence in Indiana, until 1850, when he removed to Darke Co., and located in Franklin Township, where his decease occurred in 1862. He married in Miami Co., Ohio, to Nancy Jay; she was born in Pennsylvania in 1809; they were the parents of nine children, of whom five are now living, viz., Anna, William H., Samuel, Jennie and Emma; Mrs. Youart is now living with her sons at their home, and at 70 years of age is in possession of all her faculties and able to attend to some light household duties; their home is located one and a half miles east of Greenville; Wm. H. and Samuel are the only sons now living; they came to Sec. 36, Greenville Township, in 1871, and purchased their present place of 60 acres, where they have since lived; in 1873, they engaged in the ice business, and have since largely supplied the citizens of Greenville with ice; they have ice-houses the capacity of 12,000 tons, which amount they laid in the past year; a card of their business will be found in the directory of Greenville, in another part of this work.