John J. Young, Sr., native of Brownsville, weathly ranchman, and prominent citizen of the border country, died at his residence at 504 St. Charles street, at 11 o'clock last night.

Mr. Young last March began to undergo treatment for a tumor that developed in his throat.  He made several trips to New Orleans and to Rochester, Minn., to secure relief,
but owing to the peculiar nature of the trouble, the surgeons could do nothing except give temporary relief.  He returned home and until three weeks ago was in otherwise good
health.  He then began to fail and was forced to take to his bed.  Friday evening at 6 o'clock he became unconscious and remained unconscious until Saturday afternoon, when he
recovered semi-conscientiousness for perhaps six hours.  The relapse came Saturday afternoon and he was unconsciousuntil death came.

It was announced from the residence early this morning that the funeral will be held at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon from the residence to the Sacred Heart Church.  Burial will be in
Buena Vista Burial Park.

Surviving Mr. Young are his widow and eight children, David J. Young, Angus J. Young, John J. Young, Jr., William J. Young, Mrs. David J. Fernandez, Mrs. X. Camiade, Mrs.
W. G. Ingram, and Miss Corinna Young.  He is also survived by four grandchildren.

The deceased was born in the city of Brownsville on July 6, 1854, and was 67 years and one month at the time of death.  He was the son of John J. Young and Salome Balli.  His
father, a native of Edinburg,  Scotland, where he was born in 1802, came to the United States as a young man, and while there are no family records available to show the year of his
arrival on the border, he is believed to have come here about 1836.

The elder Young died four years after the birth of his son, and Mrs. Young later became the wife of the late John B. McAllen, after whom the city of McAllen, in Hidalgo county is
named.

The second John J. Young married Miss Alberta Balli in Brownsville in 1884, and she survives him.

The history of John J. Young, Sr., is indelibly interwoven with the history of Hidalgo county.  He was one of the very few surviving stockmen who in their youth experienced
the adventure that accompanied the herding of stock all the way across Texas from the Rio Grande, across Oklahoma and to the livestock markets at Dodge City, Kansas, in the
late sixties and the seventies and even into the eighties before railroad transportation was available.  The drives would begin in the early spring, and it was often late fall before the
cowpunchers and stockmen returned from their long trips over the broad prairies of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Mr. Young was the owner of Santa Anita ranch, in the northern part of Hidalgo county, one of the very few ranches that have withstood the inroads of irrigation and agriculture
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.   But this was not because of opposition to the changes on the part of Mr. Young, but rather because of the distance of the property from the
river.  Many of the irrigation districts of Hidalgo county, many of the towns, stand on land formerly owned either by the Young interests or by the McAllen interests.

He spent most of his life on the ranch in Hidalgo county, after growing to manhood, but always maintained his business headquarters in this city, although for many years the
family made their home on the ranch.  About thirteen years ago Mr. Young erected in Brownsville, at Fifth and St. Charles streets, one of the most palatial and handsomest homes
in the city, and brought the family there to reside.  However, he continued to spend a great deal of his time on the ranch, until within the last half dozen years he began to relinquish
the management of the ranch to his son, John J. Young, Jr.

While not taking a personally active interest in affairs in the city of Brownsville, Mr. Young was a liberal contributor to the many public enterprises and efforst that have been
understaken in this city since returning here to make his residence.