Marshall &Kay Family  Histories

 

MARGARET YOUNG

AKA Maggie, Grandma KAY

 

 

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Born on 14 September 1868

in New Battle Parish, Gorebridge, Edinburghshire, Scotland

She Died on 20 May 1931 at age of 62 in Oakland, Alameda, Califonia.

 

Family Genealogy Notes - collected from the records of Yvonne KAY Marshall Margaret Young's family were converted in Scotland. Margaret immigrated to the United States in 1888. Some of her siblings had started to immigrate a few years earlier. Margaret came over with her parents (George Young & Catherine Black) and some of her sisters and brothers. Margaret and her sister Christina stayed in Colorado and married some young men that they had known in Scotland. They were all married on the same day in Dec 1888. Christina Young married Robert Pryde & Margaret Young married Robert Blyth. The rest of the family went on to Rock Springs, Wyoming.

 

Margaret Young and Robert Blyth went to school together and knew each other well. They were married in Colorado 3 Dec 1888. They had 4 children; only the oldest, Catherine (Katie) lived. All the other children died as infants. Robert was killed in a mine accident in 1893. Margaret was pregnant with their last child at the time. She left Colorado to go to Rock Springs, Wyoming, where her parents had settled. She had the baby there and named her 'Robenia' after the baby's father.

 

She married James Kay (who had been living in Rock Springs, Wyoming) in 1898. They had 5 children; 1 stillborn; 1 died as an infant; the other three lived.

 

 

Margaret supported her brother, John Black Young, on his mission to Scotland from about 1899 to 1901. Apparently John had a grocery store in Rock Springs, Wyoming, that Margaret was helping to run.

 

Later Margaret supported her family working at the store while her husband James Kay was on a Southern States Mission from June 1914 to June 1916.

 

My aunt Katie, (her oldest daughter), remembers President Grant staying in their home when he came to visit in that area. She also remembers President McKay visiting from time to time. She said he knew the family well. She told me that Margaret(Young Blyth KAY) and James Kay often kept borders in their home and always had space for visiting authorities.

 

She was Relief Society President in the Oakland Ward for quite a period before her death. She became very ill at Christmas time, while out helping those in need a few months before her death. She never did fully recover. Even into the month of May, when I was born (Yvonne KAY ) she was still very weak. It was as if she were waiting to say hi to me. Her little bonnie, is what she called me. About mid May we said hi to each other, she held me for a moment, then my parents took me out of the room to let her rest. I believe it was within the hour they went to check her again and she’d passed away, This was my Grandma KAY. If you like there’s a little more on that story. Yvonne Kay – Birth Stories.

 

 

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