Biography of JOHN YOUNG, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	JOHN YOUNG,  highly respected citizen and a prosperous
farmer, was born in Marion County, Tenn., in 1828. Of the eight
children - three sons and five daughters - born to his parents,
he is the only one living in Arkansas. His father, James Young,
was a native of Virginia, but removed to Tennessee when quite
small. There he was reared and married to Miss Sarah Young, a
native also of the Old Dominion, but who passed her girlhood in
Tennessee. They are now residents of that State. John Young
attained his growth in the Big Bend State, and then went to
Alabama, where he remained three years actively engaged in
farming. While there he met and married Miss Emaline Simmes,
and later went to Georgia, where he farmed for about twenty
years. In 1871 he removed to Logan County, Ark., and is the
owner of 166 acres of land, with 100 acres under cultivation.
His marriage was blessed by the birth of nine children: Sarah
(wife of Joseph Noah), Julia (wife of D.T. Williams), Margaret,
Rebecca, Jane (married John Howard), Savanah, John T., Martha
(married C. Donaldson and died in 1889, leaving her husband and
three children), and Malissa (married John Seth, and resides in
Clark County.) Mr. Young's first wife died in February, 1880, and
the following year he was married to Miss Prudy Rainey, who bore
him five children - four sons and one daughter - Henry, George,
Alvin E., James E. and Melvin, all small and at home. Mr. Young
is a minister of the gospel in the Baptist Church, and has been
preaching the Word of God since 1862. He is one of the county's
most esteemed and honored citizens. He contributes liberally to
all laudable enterprises, and he allows no worthy movement to
fall through for want of support.