Marie Young

Marie Young from Wilberforce University's "The Mirror"

Wilberforce University

Quick Facts

Significance:

Educator and Daughter of Charles and Ada Young

Place of Birth:

Camp McGrath, Philippines

Date of Birth:

March 26, 1909

Place of Death:

Xenia, Ohio

Date of Death:

January 19, 1970

Place of Burial:

Ceadarville, Ohio

Cemetery Name:

Massies Creek Cemetery

Marie Young was the second child of Charles and Ada Young. She was born on March 26, 1909, in the Philippines. At that time her father was stationed at Camp McGrath, where the family lived in the officers’ quarters. When Marie was a little over a year old, the family left the Philippines for Charles’s next assignment, at Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming. 

On May 16, 1910, the Young family traveled from Wyoming back to their home in Wilberforce. This was the first time that Marie met her grandmother, Arminta. From then on, Marie often traveled with her parents. She went with them to Liberia in 1912 and later that year traveled to Belgium to attend boarding school. 

Education played a pivotal role in Marie’s life just as it did in her brother’s, parents’ and grandparents’ lives. After she attended boarding schools in Belgium and France, she earned her bachelor’s degree from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Later she received her master’s degree from Catholic University of America. She taught French and music at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, before returning to Wilberforce, where she taught at Wilberforce University for 30 years. She died on January 19, 1970, in Xenia, Ohio, after a brief illness. She was buried next to her brother in Massies Creek Cemetery in Cedarville, Ohio.