William Baldwin Yung

William Baldwin “Bill” Yung died 26 May 2021, having tested positive for the COVID-19 plague on 21 December last, while resident at the Crowne Health care facility in Montgomery, after which he was hospitalized on four separate occasions.

Bill was born in Montgomery on 14 June 1945. He graduated from the Marion Military Institute in 1967. After living in Oklahoma for a number of years, he returned to Montgomery in 2016.

Bill was the great grandson of Dr. William Owen Baldwin, noted Montgomery physician who opposed secession and declined offers of a commission in the Confederate States Army, but frequently attended battlefield wounded as a volunteer surgeon. Dr. Baldwin served as president of the American Medical Association in 1869,, and 1871 organized the First National bank of Montgomery and was elected its first president. Dr. Baldwin’s son, Abram Martin Baldwin, Bill’s grandfather, also served as president of the bank and was chairman of the Organization Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Dr. Baldwin’s grandson, William O. Baldwin (3rd), Bill’s uncle, after a career as a US Navy officer, served as vice president of the First National Bank and member of its boar of directors. Bill was also the great grandson of John A. Yung who, in 1860, established the famous Yung’s Restaurant on North Court Street in Montgomery, just off Court Square, which was Montgomery’s first “eating house.”

Bill’s ashes will be interred in the Baldwin lot at Old Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery.