Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-01-09
A PLAY MATE
Of The Late
QUEEN
Mrs. ]. G. Young, of Elk City,
Lived Just Across the Brook
From Kensington Palace.

contributes TO the Spokesman-Review
the following sketch of a remarkable
woman, who has lived at Elk City for
the past 43 years.
Living well up toward the head of
MAN! street, in Elk City, Idaho, which,
by the way, is about the only street in
that bustling little mining camp, resides |
a remarkable woman She is Mrs. J..
Q. Young. She lives with her husband
in a house constructed partly of boards
and partly of logs, overlooking the
busiest portion of Elk City as well as
the beautiful Elk valley. She and her
husband have quite a large ranch adj
joining the town, on which they raise a
considerable tonnage of hay, more than
is needed to feed their rather large nerd
of cattle, a number of which are mich
cows. For this hay and for their milk
and butter there is a ready sale at Elk
City and among the numerous miners in
. that vicinity.
Mrs. Young has resided at Elk City
and in it's vicinity for AZ years and as
she says herself is now nearly 100 years
old. She was born in the early years of
the last century at Taunton, England.
In her early girlhood her father, who
was a farmer, resided on a piece of
lane which was separated from Ken
sington palace only by a brook, and she
says: 81 ave frequently played with
the late Queen Victoria when she was a
child, trundling the hoop for her and
skipping the rope with her on the lawn
at the palace" She says the little
princess was a most loving and amiable
child, and always treated her playmates
kindly and they were all sincerely at
tached to her. She remembers with
distinction the coronation of the queen
and her subsequent marriage to Prince
Albert, and she says: 81 have more
thar once held the present king of Eng
land and handled him on my knee. 1
knew him as a child until he was about
four years of age. He was a handsome
well dispositioned child and if his reign
shall be as wise and just as that of his
sainted mother England will be blessed,
indeed"
Old Country Romance. y
After she was grown she was lady's
maid to Lady Noll, the former wife of
Lord Byron, to whom she was greatly
attached. She tells with much gusto of
the marriage of Lady Noll's daughter
Charlotte to Lord Wellman.
1t seems that Lady Noll, travelling
with her two daughters, Charlotte and
Julia, stopped all night at Lord Well
mans beautiful mansion. Lord Well
man, who was "a, and had never been
married, fell in owe with Charlotte,
who was 10; proposed for her hand in
marriage, was accepted and were after
ward married.
''Did they live happily t~ogether?''
was asked her.
ooh, yes," she replied. 'Lord Well
man was very wealthy. He gave her
everything she wanted or that was nee
essary to make her happy. He had a
son and heir by her, and she was, in
deed, an old mans darling" ,
The old lady seems to have been much
attached to Charlotte, and will talk by
the hour of this wedding, the details Of
which she recalls with distinctness.
Mrs. Young's maiden name was
Elizabeth Bond, and she was married
at Christ hospital in London, when she
was about 25 years of age, to JOIN
Mearston, a bookbinder by occupation
BY him she had two sons, both of whom
lied in infancy, the last one living to b.
three or four years old.
Work at his trade becoming some
what slack in London, Mr.. Mearstol
and his wife came to New York il
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