Fort Bend County Texas Archives Photo Person.....Young, Michael 
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In March 1829, Michael and Rachel Young, their sons William and Anderson, and 

Michael’s sister Emily, her husband Silas Jones and their family came to Texas 

from Alabama as part of Austin’s 2nd Colony.  Michael’s league lay just above 

Wm. T. Austin’s on Big Creek in what was to become Fort Bend County.  He took 

part in the skirmish at Anahuac in 1832,  joined Jesse Billingsley’s company of 

Mina Volunteers in June, 1836, and served on the 1st jury assembled at Richmond 

in January, 1838.  By 1840 he was in Bastrop County in the area that was named 

for him—Young’s  Settlement.  By 1870 he had moved with sons Anderson and Perry 

to Bell County. There he died on May 20,1875, and was buried at Live Oak 

Cemetery near Youngsport, Bell Co.



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