Joe Yule together in a Brooklyn production of "A Gaiety Girl", their only son, Ninnian Joseph Yule, Jr. (later Mickey McGuire, then Mickey Rooney), was born. The Yules separated in 1924 during a slump in vaudeville, and in 1925 Nellie moved with her son to Hollywood. Yule was naturalized as a United States citizen at the United States District Court in Los Angeles on May 14, 1943. Yule died from a heart attack on March 30, 1950 in Hollywood, California. Rooney arranged to have his father buried near Rooney's friend and longtime acting colleague, Wallace Beery, who had died the year before.
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. contracting tuberculosis, a disease that would claim the life of his sister, Florence Olivia, in 1914. After falling ill, Cotter Jr. returned to Louisville and began work as a journalist for the "Leader". Cotter Jr. avoided mimicking the style of his father and instead "experimented with free and, in "Rain Music", rhythmic styles. His father was instrumental in promoting his son's work after his death in 1920 from tuberculosis. He was said by many to have had the potential to be the greatest poet of his generation. Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. (September 2, 1895- February 3,