Ray County, Missouri - Miscellaneous - Hattie Young Will Be 95 Years Of Age Richmond Missourian 30 APR 1942 Mrs. Hattie Young Will Be 95 Years Of Age May 21, 1942 By Jewell Mayes Long will I remember visiting Mrs. Hattie V. (Foushee) Young at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dixie Whitmer, 427 East Lexington street. I went to see Mrs. Young, Friday morning, in company with her son, A. Harrison Young, who had told me that his mother’s 95th birthday would be on May 21st. Chas. G. Bohannon had twice reminded me that I should go to see mother Young. Mrs. Young has been in poor health for the past two years. She now spends all her time in bed, seeing the world for her west window. Her hearing is not good, but her mind is clear, bright, alert. She has a remarkable memory. She was born on may 21, 1847, in Bolivar, Polk County, Mo., the daughter of William T. and Narcissa (Hunt) Foushee. She lived with her family either on the farm a mile from town or in Boliver until 1862, when she came with her parents and brothers to Ray County, where she has ever since resided. Mrs. Young’s eyes flashed when she told of the mistreatment of her family by the "Republican soliders," who burned her father’s hotel in Boliver, and how the blue-coated militiamen robbed them of their property, making life so miserable for them that they came to Ray County, in the midst of the Civil War. She remembers coming through Sedalia in 1862, a young lady who traveled with them from Boliver taking the train at Sedalia. She remembers crossing the Missouri river at Lexington., remarking that the boat was "flat." Illustrative of her splendid memory, she remarked that they crossed the river at Lexington at noon, November 8, 1862. Her parents lived near the "Gum Spring" on the Dr. Eugene P. Hamilton farm), southeast of Richmond, for the first winter, then settling near Hickory Grove church. Mrs. Young remarked that she has always voted the Democratic ticket, as did her father and her brothers, and that all her children are Democrats without exception. Her brothers were Henry, Edward, William and John Foushee, all dead. Of the surviving Foushee kin, she named only Mrs. George McClure, of Kansas City, and mrs. Martin Brown, of California. Father Foushee kept a hotel in Bolivar, and was a farmer, but by trade was a saddler and harness-maker, by which calling he was widely known in Richmond and Ray County. At one period he was the jailer in charge of the Ray County jail. On the afternoon of Saturday, June 1, 18878, Mr. Foushee had just entered the stone jail, located in the extreme eastern portion of the Richmond courthouse square, when the cyclone struck the community, with terrible results. The jail and stone recorder’s office were two of the buildings that were safe. Mrs. Young was at the Young farm near Millville, but she came to Richmond and witnessed the frightful carnage, with much loss of human life and great destruction of property. She will remember June 1, 1878. Miss Hattie V. Foushee and Warren Young were married on Sunday, November 26, 1865. To them were born ten children. Mr. Young died on Wednesday, May 26, 1886, and she has been a widow for 56 years, bringing up a worthy and honorable family, to her fine credit as a mother and as manager of her farm and household affairs. She still owns the Warren Young farm of 140 acres, near Millville, upon which she live until 1904, when she moved to Richmond, where she had since resided. She is the mother of ten children, all living except Thaddeus. Their names are: (1) Narcissus, the widow of C. V. Henderson, lives on the Henderson farm near Millville. (2) Mary William, the widow of P. Mack Pinckard, lives at Clarksville, Ark. Professor Pinckard (my old teacher) died nine years ago. (3) Walter Gray Young, of Richmond (4) James Austin Young, four miles northwest of Richmond (5) Eliza Iola, wife of William Carter, of Rayville community. (6) Dixie Whitmer, 427 East Lexington street, who devotedly takes care of her mother. (7) Charles Foushee Young, northeast of Millville (8) Thaddeus Young, who died in 1916 (9) Arthur Harrison Young, 184 Institute street, Richmond (10) Warren Allen Young, of north of Dockery. Warren Young was a son of John Taylor Young, senior, who was born in 1800, and who rode on horseback here from Kentucky as a young man, carrying some clothing and other articles in his saddlebags. He selected and entered 1,260 acres of land, mainly two miles southwest of Millville. His sister, Eliza, was the wife of Gov. Thomas Reynolds, who was governor of Missouri in about 1844. Part of the John T. Young farm was later known as the Gilpin place, later the Jos. S. Hughes farm, north of the Ami Hughes estate. Mother Young joined the Methodist church at Millville, when she was a young woman. After moving to Richmond, she transferred her membership to Richmond Methodist church. She is a devoted Christian lady, a faithful Methodist. Along with Mrs. Young’s remarkable age of more than 94 years, her 95th birthday being due on the 21st of may, The Richmond Missourian counts it historic that she still has nine of her ten children living, and that she has 20 grandchildren, 30 great-grand children, and seven great-great grandchildren. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Jenna Zunker USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. 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