Biographical Sketch of Archabal Young, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Archabal Young, an enterprising farmer of Gasconade township, Wright
Co., Mo., was born in Perry Co., Ky., in 1822, and is a son of Samuel
and Mary (Newton) Young.  The paternal grandparents, so far as known,
were born in Ireland, and the grandmother died in Kentucky.  Samuel
Young was born in North Carolina, May 5, 1774, grew to manhood in 
that state, and there married.  He farmed for many years in Virginia,
Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri, moving into the last named state in
the fall of 1841, and there died in 1850.  His wife, Mrs. Mary (Newton)
Young, was born in North Carolina, November 10, 1777, and was the 
mother of ten children, all of whom lived to be grown.  She died in
Indiana when her son Archabal was six years of age.  He remained in
Indiana until nineteen years of age, when he moved to Wright Co., Mo.,
and was one of the pioneer hunters of that state.  He made hunting a
business, and he now says that if all the deer he has killed were alive
and turned into one herd, it would astonish people.  The woods at that
time abounded in many wild animals, and were a hunter's paradise.  Mr.
Young went to work and now has an excellent farm.  He has been married 
three times: first, to Miss Frances Rippee, and after her death to Mrs.
Cynthia Blankenship, who bore him two children, Cynthia and Angeline.
After her death Mr. Young married Miss Elizabeth H. McCain.  To the
first marriage were born six children.  During the Civil War Mr. Young
was a member of Company E, Eighth Missouri Cavalry.  He is a Democrat
in politics, is a member of the Wheel, and has been a member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church for forty-five years.
 
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