John Yont and Agatha Deterly

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Husband John Yont ¹

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           Born: 1800 - Würtemberg, Germany 1
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           Died: 19 Oct 1878 - Nebraska 1
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       Marriage: 

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Wife Agatha Deterly ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 22 Mar 1861 1
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Children

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1 M Andrew Yont ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 16 Jan 1846 - Bethany, East Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 3 Mar 1869 - Champlain, MN 1 3
         Buried:  - Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, near Tarrs Station, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Marietta Null (      -      ) 2 3 4 5
           Marr: 20 Jun 1867 3 4

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2 M John Yont, Jr. ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John Yont

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He was born in Würtemberg, Germany, and emigrated with his family to America, arriving in New York, after a voyage of ninety days. From there they came to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and located for a time at West Newton. In his native country, he was a skilled stone mason, and his first employment in his new home was on the masonry work of a new bridge being built across the Youghiogheny river. John Yont owned and operated the first coal mine in East Huntingdon township. The family later moved to Bethany, but in the early eighteen-seventies, John Yont went to Nebraska to live with his only living son, John Yont, Jr., and remained there until his death.
He was a man of retiring disposition, strict in his principles, uncompromising, rigidly upright and honorable.

He and his wife were the parents of six children, all of whom were deceased before 1918.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 199.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 20.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 95.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 200.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 647.