Obit of William Young, 1919,  Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Carol Young Knight
Source:  Old Catahoula Parish Newspaper  1919
Date: 1999


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William Young was born in Catahoula Parish, La. on January 8, 1835, and died
at his son's home on Little River on March 29, 1919, having passed the
eighty-fourth milestone on the road of life.  So his life was long - and we
can as truthfully add - good.  He married Miss Martha Elizabeth Hughes in
March 1856.  She preceded his going by many years, having passed into the
beyond in February 1888, thus leaving him to be both father and mother in the
rearing of a large family of children.  But as in all other responsibilities
that became his, he was faithful.  Hardly had he begun life as a young man
when the awful period of civil war came.  He fought throughout that dreadful
tragedy, wearing the gray.  The South had no better soldier.  When the cause
for which he fought was lost, he like many others, came back and helped to
rebuild the shattered Southland.  He was as true to this latter task as he had
been to the former.  He was as fearless as a lion, but as gentle as a woman,
the very embodiment of self-sacrifice.  One of his maxims of life was "Do not
unnecessarily trouble others." He joined the M.E. Church, South, in his early
youth, lived by its rule and died in the faith.  He leaves behind nine
children:  Edward Young, Jackson, La.; Ernest Young, Utility, La.; Mrs. S..B.
Hanes, Jena, La.; Mrs. C.A. Wilkinson, Lavocca, La., Mrs. J.P. Whatley, Eden,
La.; Mrs. J.B. Ray, Greenwood, Miss.; Mrs. G.R. Hanks, Jena, La.; Mrs. J.S.
Chenault, Gilbert, La.; and Mrs. Henry T. Young, Jena, La.; two brothers, Jno.
S. Young, Utility, La.; and James H. Young, Monroe, La.; one sister, Mrs.
Sarah Hughes, Monroe, La.; and a number of grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.

He lived well and blessed the world.  As the setting sun goes home at night,
Wrapped in the glory of its own ray, so he, who always lives for Right, Goes
thus along his way.  His Pastor, Jena, La.

(Note:  William Young was the son of Absalom Young and Eliza Stone Harvey.  He
married Martha Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of John C. Hughes and Melitha Hanes.
William Young is buried in the Young Cemetery near Little River, Catahoula
Parish, La.

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