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Phagan McDaniel Young and his wife, Elizabeth Butler

PHAGAN McDANIEL 'MACK' YOUNG (1828- 1906)
According to tradition, in the late 1840's Mack Young may have fathered a child with a young woman named Naomi Howell, who lived near Boonford. In 1852 he married Elizabeth Butler; she was the daughter of George Butler, who had moved to Yancey County from Ohio. George Butler was a tanner and in 1850 he and Mack's father George entered a business agreement for the operation of a tanyard. The Butler family left Yancey in 1852 soon after the marriage of two daughters- Elizabeth and her sister Amanda, who married Mack's first-cousin John W. Young.
Mack and Elizabeth Butler Young lived in Newdale and are buried in Strawbridge Young Cemetery. They had eight children.

CHILDREN OF PHAGAN McDANIEL AND ELIZABETH YOUNG
1) Martha Young (Oct. 3, 1854- May 5, 1934) m. William H. Gardner
2) Milton Hatfield Young (1856- 1883)
3) Harriett Mellisa Young (July 1, 1858- March 20, 1933) m. Washington C. 'Wash' Young
4) Jefferson Davis Young (1860- 1934) m. Eliza Hilliard
5) G.W. Young
6) Nancy Louisa Young m. George Silver
7) Charlotte Amanda Young (Jan. 20, 1875- Feb. 26, 1943) m. John B. Hilliard
8) Nina Myles Young (1871- 1953) m. James G. Silver

Phagan McDaniel Young's son-in-law WASHINGTON CRUMLEY YOUNG (shown above) was a local postal carrier and is pictured on his mail route in Newdale.

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