Young

Photos L to R: Samuel Lockwood Young; his son Edward Allen Young with mother Elisabeth Wellman Young (center), wife Lulu May Reeves, and infant son Paul Bennett Young in 1904.

Young – I am “stuck” in Bracken and Pendleton Counties of Kentucky on my Young line! The earliest ancestor is James Young, born between 1770 and 1780 in Virginia. (I recently learned that he married Orena Burks in Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1797; see separate article about Virginia research.) His son Henry James Young (1800-1837) married Catherine “Kitty” Ellis in 1826 in Pendleton County, Kentucky. They had children there: James Young who died before 1888 in St. Louis; John Young who died between 1880-1888; Laura Young, born after 1830 (although we do not have evidence to prove the existence of this daughter); and Samuel Lockwood Young, born in 1827 in Kentucky. Henry James Young died before 1837 (but I can’t find a death record) and his widow Catherine married Benjamin Shoemaker and had additional children. Samuel Lockwood Young married Elisabeth Ann Wellman in Pendleton County in 1872. (She would later marry James Beach). Related names include Brewer, Houchen, Schubert, Peters, and others.