Christina
'Tina' (Younkin) Nedrow
(1859-1942)
Christina
(Younkin) Nedrow was born on Nov. 11, 1859 near Casselman, Somerset County,
PA, the daughter of Eli and Mary Ann (Rose)
Younkin.
As a girl, she and her parents went out west to Illinois for "a few years," possibly for the sake of her mother's health. Her mother, homesick, did not get well, and died and was buried at Franklin Grove, IL. The mourning family then returned home to Somerset County.
On Jan. 17, 1876, Tina married John Wesley Nedrow (1853-1933), a fellow Somerset Countian. They had 9 children -- Josephine Nute, Harry Joseph 'Dick' Nedrow, Pearl Maple, Walter J. 'Tim' Nedrow, Maude Katherine Degen, Martha Ellen Cartier, Frank Floyd Nedrow, Gladys Marie Murray and Kenneth Leroy Nedrow.
Tina and John must have had "the wonderlust." While their first 2 children were born in Somerset County, they soonafter went west. In 1881, they moved to Falls City, Richardson County, NE. They then moved to Marshal County, KS (by 1888), then back to eastern Nebraska (by 1891) and finally to Maitland, MO (by 1896).
Tina joined the Christian Church of Maitland in 1916, having transferred her membership from the United Brethren Church which she had joined in childhood. Her obituary later said "She remained a sincere and steadfast member of that congregation through her long and courageous life."
John died on Feb. 6, 1933. Tina also suffered the
deaths of adult daughters Josephine in 1908 and Ella in 1941.
On July 2, 1942, after many years of "excellent health," Tina fell and broke her hip, and died shortly after, on Aug. 15, 1942. She was buried beside John at the Maitland Cemetery. Pallbearers were her six grandsons: Elwood Lyle, Gordon Roberts, Lester Hall, Logan Duke, Vincent Bumbacher and Gerald Gifford.
Grandson Leland 'Bill' Murray was stationed at the Wilbur Wright Air Academy of Aeronautics in New York (training for World War II service) and was unable to get home for the funeral. He and his wife Fay are pictured in the January 1996 issue of the Younkin Family News Bulletin.
Copyright © 2000 Mark A. Miner