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On the slave schedules of the 1850 and 1860 Yancey censuses, George
Young is listed as having three slaves. These are: 1) A man, born about
1838-9, listed as “mulatto” (i.e. of mixed ancestry). 2) A man, born about
1840, listed as “black” in 1850 but as “mulatto” in 1860 . 3) A woman,
born about 1842, listed as “mulatto”. The identity of these three individuals
seems to be as follows:
1) ROBERT YOUNG (ca.1838-?), married Sarah Garland (b. ca.1840). He and his family are shown on the 1870 census living with George Young’s son Joseph Tarpley Young. On the 1880 census they are shown living next to Caroline Young and her family.
CHILDREN OF ROBERT AND SARAH YOUNG
1) Robert L. Young, b. 1867
2) Joseph L. Young, b. 1869
3) Phagan Mack Young (April 17, 1869-Nov. 2, 1916)
m/1895 Sarah J. Ervin (b.1874) Children:
Corra E. Young (b.1896),
Ella C. Young (b. 1898), William M.
Young (b.1900),
Jeter Young (b/3/1/1900-Burnsville,
N.C. d/Aug 1976,
Johnson City, TN.)
4) Mira C. Young, b. 1872
5) David Young (1874-April 15, 1926)
6) Dulla Josephine Young, b. 1877.
m/Nov. 1, 1896 Brank Roland (Marriage
witnessed by Bis Ray.)
Children: Dewey Roland, Virgie Elizabeth
Roland (b.1900) m. Alexander Dula, Sr.,
Gerald Roland.
7) Manday Young, b. 1879
2) JAMES YOUNG (ca.1840-ca.1890?), is shown on the 1870 census living with George Young’s son Samuel Fleming Young. This is probably the same James Young who is listed on the 1880 Yancey census living in the household of Samuel Fleming Young's neighbors Tilman and Susan Young. (Tilman-the son of Thomas Young- and his wife Susan lived near the Boonford school, on what is presently Presnell Hollow Road, and are buried in a small private cemetery in the woods near their home.) According to the 1880 census, James Young worked as a shoemaker and suffered from 'rheumatism'. He was possibly married to a wife who died young, for he had a son born in 1877. (The son's name is variously given as 'Samuel' or 'Sandy'). James is no longer shown in Tilman Young's household on the 1900 census; his son is still there in 1900 but is no longer listed with the family in 1910.
3) FANNY CAROLINE YOUNG (1842- 1922), whom George apparently acknowledged as his illegitimate daughter. (The description of the other two slaves as “mulatto” raises the possibility that they too may have been fathered by George Young, but there is no proof of this.) Caroline’s mother was probably the woman slave listed on the 1840 census. According to tradition George Young ordered his other (legitimate) children to “Be good to Caroline”, and Caroline continued living with the family for some years after the Civil War and is listed on George’s household on the 1870 census. In 1872 Caroline Young married Peter Young (1846- 1936), another former slave who had apparently lived with some of George Young’s relatives. In December, 1893 George’s son Samuel Fleming Young sold a piece of his land to Peter Young for the price of $18. In 1898 Samuel Fleming Young and Joseph Tarpley Young sold additional land to Peter for $46. Caroline and Peter lived on the land purchased from George Young’s sons, which was located between Gouch Rock and the present Ray Road on Highway 80 North. As an old man, Peter Young entertained local school children at Boonford with song and dance. He also told a story from his youth: as a young boy, he had stood with his mother before an audience. He was restless, and his mother rebuked him. She whispered to him to behave and be good. The event was a slave auction, and he never saw his mother again. The old man cried when telling the story.
Caroline Young had four children, two of whom died at an early age. One child was born some years before Caroline’s marriage to Peter. Caroline and Peter Young had a grandson named Roland, who lived with Peter and Caroline during the early 1900’s. Both Peter and Caroline Young are buried in a marked grave in the corner of Strawbridge Young Cemetery.
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CHILDREN OF CAROLINE AND PETER YOUNG
1) WILLIAM YOUNG (ca. 1866- ca.1900)
2) GEORGE WASHINGTON YOUNG (Aug. 2, 1867- Aug. 8, 1957) (Census
data shows a birthdate of 1874)
m. Sallie Horton.
3) MARTHA M. YOUNG (Dec. 15, 1875- Feb.
10, 1959) (Census data gives a birthdate of October 1877)
married James Coleman Young (1876- 1969),
the son of Mark Young and Fannie Gurley.
In the late 1890's Martha Young served
as a nursemaid for the children of the newly widowed
Ellis Young. James and Martha Young
lived and farmed at Grassy Creek, Mitchell County.
4) ETTA YOUNG (October 1879- ca.1902) m. James L. Carson.
Etta's son Roland (b. 1902) was raised
by Caroline and Peter.
George Young, the son of
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George Young and Sallie Horton Young |