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Zelia Edytha (Seaman) Young (b.1883 - d. 1982) was born on January 29, 1883 in Casnovia, Michigan. She was the daughter of Layfette Seaman, born in New York in 1841 and Roxanna Moore Seaman, born in Indiana in 1842.

Zelia married Herbert V. Young and they had three children, Berton, Geraldine and Herbert V "Buddy" Young, Jr. Buddy was an Army pilot during World War II and was killed during a bombing mission when his plane crashed over New Guinea. His remains were not located for several years. He was finally interred in Prescott, Arizona in 2014. His daughter, who was born after his death, was present at his funeral.

Zelia's husband, Herbert, served 41 years and five months in Jerome with the mining organization that operated the United Verde Copper Company (U-V), first as the executive secretary to the head man, and then with the Phelps Dodge Corporation which took over U-V in 1935. He retired in 1953. He wrote "Ghost of Cleopatra Hill" that traces the mining and business history of Jerome, and "They came to Jerome: The Billion Dollar Copper Camp" that deals with the people and town of Jerome, published in 1972. An oral history about his ranching childhood and his work in mining was conducted November 12, 1974, tape number 1431, available at the Sharlot Hall Museum Archives. He also was an able historian on Verde Valley history, an artist and a writer of western fiction.

Handwriting on back of photograph reads: "Mrs. Young".

Zelia died in 1982 and is buried with her husband in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona.