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From the book, History of Kentucky, Illustrated 1886, page 719 is a bio of John H. Young. It reads
John H. Young, farmer, was born in Simpson Co., KY, October 28, 1838, and is the second of eleven children born to Benjamin and Rebecca (Blewett) Young, the former of whom was a native of Simpson, and the latter of Warren Co., KY. Both were of English descent, born August 1814 and May 1818, respectively. Benjamin Young was educated and married in his native county, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for many years, and was also extensively engaged in the tobacco business, owning two large warehouses –one on his farm and one at Woodburn, in Warren County. In Dec. 1846, he removed to Warren Co.; in 1878 to Collin Co., TX and in the following year to Hill Co., TX, where he yet resides and is extensively engaged in farming. He and wife have been from early life members of the Old School Baptist Church in which he has been a regularly ordained minister for the past 23 years. He is also a member of the Grange. In the fall of 1846 his dwelling, with nearly all its contents was destroyed by fire and while raising a new house, he lost one eye by a splinter from a falling timber. His father, John H. Young was a native of Virginia, but when a young man came to what is now Simpson Co., KY, then an almost unbroken wilderness. Here he married and remained until 1837, when he removed to Audrain Co., MO. John H. Young received a good common school and academic education in youth, and was employed on his father’s farm and in his tobacco warehouse until he was 26 years old, with the exception of about 18 months when he lived with his grandmother in Missouri. After his return to KY and after his first marriage, he still continued in his father’s tobacco warehouse as foreman for one year. He then settled on a partially improved farm in the north part of Simpson Co., which he had bought some years before. He also owned at that time two other small farms in Warren Co., In 1867, he sold this place and bought the farm of 161 acres seven miles northwest of Franklin, upon which he now resides and is extensively and successfully engaged in farming and stock raising. The farm is now well improved and is in a high state of cultivation. He first married, Dec. 26, 1865, Elizabeth Blewett, a native of Warren Co., KY. She was born October 15, 1837 and was a daughter of Edward W. and Lucy (Leeton) Blewett, both natives of KY and of English descent. One son blessed this union, vix: Edward H., born March 1, 1868. Mrs. Elizabeth Young departed this life May 18, 1870. She was from her girlhood a devoted member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Young next married, Dec. 27, 1870, Mrs. Emily S. (Stuart) Harris, a native of Sumner Co, TN. She was born April 5, 1830 and was a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Bibb) Stuart, Mrs. Emily S. died June 23, 1881. Mr. Young’s last marriage was on January 18, 1883 with Lucy A. McFadin, a native of Simpson Co, KY who was born Dec. 19, 1851 and is a daughter of Phineas D. and Ann V. (Dawson) McFadin. This union has been blessed by one son, vix: Phineas Douglass, born Jan. 24, 1884. Mrs. Young is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Young was formerly a member of the Grange. In politics, he is a Democrat.
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