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JULIUS DECATUR YOUNG (June 22, 1864-
June 15, 1906)
m. Lucy Westall (1871- 1946), the daughter of Samuel Westall
and Naomi Horton Westall. (Naomi was Joe Tarp's first-cousin.)
Children:
Gertrude Young (March 27, 1889- Oct. 25, 1964)
m. Smith Howell
Fleater May Young (May 18, 1891- Nov. 22, 1962)
m. Will Young
Jenny B. Young (Nov. 24, 1893- May 19, 1979)
m. John Waller Ellis
Julia A. Young (Feb. 4, 1897- March 15, 1970)
m. 1st James Snyder, Sr. m. 2nd Frank B. Howell
Bessie Young (June 5, 1899- Dec. 12, 1981) m.
1st Charlie Robinson m. 2nd Ed Boone
Flora Young (Oct. 13, 1901- Sept. 26, 1989) m.
1st James Stewart m. 2nd Bob Presnell
Bonnie Young (Oct. 21, 1903- July 22, 1914) Died
of variola fever.
Edna Theodosia “Dosie” Young (@1906- @1985) m.
____ Hensley. Lived in Johnson City, TN.
Decatur Young and his family lived on Arbuckle. Their house
was later torn down and replaced by a house where daughter Bessie lived.
By 1906 Julius Decatur Young was working for the railroad;
he was away during the week and returned to Boonford railroad station and
home at weekends. At the beginning of one week he was injured in the arm
by a railroad spike; he continued working through the week and arrived
home, weak and ill, on Friday. A doctor was called, but the doctor stated
that, although prompt medical attention could have helped, the case was
now hopeless. Julius Decatur spoke privately to each of his children, and
then died early the next morning from 'blood poisoning'. He was buried
in the Young cemetery on Arbuckle.
After Decatur Young’s death, Lucy Westall Young
remarried the widower W. Squibb Phillips of Mitchell County. With his first
wife Squibb Phillips had several children (including Mitchell County school
principal Robert Phillips). Lucy Young and W.S. Phillips had two daughters
together, Laura (Phillips) Yelton and Kate (Phillips) Slate. After Lucy
died, W.S. Phillips wanted her buried next to him. Sometime after Phillips'
death, her children exhumed her body and had her reburied on Arbuckle next
to her first husband.