Emory and Lyda Youngman Busts - Columbus, KS
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N 37° 10.245 W 094° 50.610
15S E 336332 N 4115405
Originally, this clock was on the courthouse, but now standing alone on the tower.
Waymark Code: WM177JE
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 12/30/2022
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County of clock: Cherokee County
Location of tower: Maple St. & Pennsylvania Ave., courthouse lawn, Columbus
Date erected: 1983 & 1988
Donated by: Harold D. & Estella Youngman
Restored and erected by: Starr & Eugenia Smith and the Citizens of Cherokee County
The relief art is the bust's of both Emory and Lyda Youngman. It is on the plaque erected in their memory by their children.
Donation Plaque text:
Given in appreciation
to my hometown, Columbus,
and in memory of my parents,
Emory and Lyda Youngman
Harold D. Youngman
Estella Youngman
"We pledge to give your work of love
the care and appreciation it deserves"
Cherokee County Citizens
Lyda's Find-A-Grave listing
"This 1919 Seth Thomas Clock,is housed in a 40-foot climate controlled tower on the NW corner of the Cherokee County Courthouse lawn. Visitors may stand and look through the three picture windows and watch all the mechanisms whirl and work. The Face is marble and hands are made of walnut. All original from 1919. The clock Gongs on hour and half-hour and can be heard all over town. The clock was purchased in 1918 as a memorial to WWI veterans and installed in the old courthouse tower. When the new courthouse was built in 1954 the clock faces were incorporated into the new building, but the mechanisms were thrown in a county barn, in gravel, left to rust until it was rescued in the late 1980s, put back together so the community would once again hear its gong and know the time of day." ~ Travel Kansas