It has long been suspected that DeYoung Street got its name from a family, but no DeYoung family has ever been found in census records or directories here in Marion. Marion resident, James Emery, who owns property on DeYoung Street recently found the answer located in an Abstract of Title related to his property.
It seems that on March 25, 1899, Teunis DeYoung (pronounced “tennis”) and his wife Cordelia of South Holland, Illinois, a Dutch suburb of Chicago, contracted with Joab Goodall who then owned the property to buy five parcels of land for the sum of $10,000 amounting to 144 acres. They paid $5,000 down and spread out the remaining $5,000 into six promissory notes at 6% interest to be paid yearly until 1904.
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