Pioneers of Marion County by Wm. Wm. M. Donnel, 1872

Peter Yrntz

Peter Yrntz moved into this township from Eddyville, late in the autumn of '48. Owing to the lateness of the season he did not get his stock feed and provisions moved up before the first snow fell; and as all kinds of provisions were scarce in the county, he subsisted by borrowing from his neighbors for his own subsistance, and broused his cattle in the White Breast timber.