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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Euel Bruce Young: Birth: 6 JUN 1892 in Belton, Cass Co., Missouri. Death: 29 AUG 1971 in Overland Park, Johnson Co., Kansas

  2. Kathleen Young: Birth: 6 OCT 1900 in Missouri. Death: JUN 1973 in Belton, Cass Co., Missouri


Sources
1. Title:   History of Cass County
Page:   p. 380
Author:   Allen Glenn
Publication:   Name: Historical Publishing Company, Topeka Cleveland 1917;
2. Title:   Lewis Edelen Garrison, 92 Highlands Court, Wetumpka, AL 36093-1308
3. Title:   Descendants of John McAfee Sr
Page:   Seventh Generation
Author:   Jenny Tenlen
Publication:   Location: URL http://www.halcyon.com/jennyrt/Register/RR_TOC.HTML;
4. Title:   Tommy Lewis Kircher
5. Title:   1872 - 1972 The First Hundred Years Belton, Missouri
Page:   p. 26 F
Author:   Unknown
Publication:   Name: Unknown;
6. Title:   1920 Census for Cass Co., Missouri
7. Title:   1900 Census for Cass Co., Missouri
8. Title:   1910 Census for Cass Co., Missouri
9. Title:   1850 Census for Cass Co., Missouri
10. Title:   Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death - Lou-Bell Young
11. Title:   Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death - James H. Young
12. Title:   1870 Census for Cass Co., Missouri
13. Title:   1880 Census for Cass Co., Missouri
Publication:   Name: Cass County Genealogical Society and the Cass County Historical Society, 1994; Location: Cass County, Missouri, Historical Society, 400 East Mechanic, Harrisonville, Missouri 64701;
14. Title:   1860 Census for Cass Co., Missouri
15. Title:   Find A Grave - Cemetery Records and Online Memorials - James Hickman Young
Publication:   Location: http://www.findagrave.com;

Notes
a. Note:   The 1900 federal census for Cass Co., Missouri shows that his father was born in Kentucky and his mother born in Virginia. The 1910 federal census for Cass Co., Missouri shows that his parents were born in Indiana.
  Jno E. Mullen, Belton, Missouri, was the informant for his death certificate.
  SOURCE
  THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS
  BELTON MISSOURI
  James Hickman Young was born March 10, 1849 in old Westport that small but historical community not far from the banks of the Missouri River. He had three brothers and one sister.
  His mother, Elizabeth Sanford had come to Missouri from Kentucky, emigrating to that state from Ohio in 1835. They traveled by oxen teams and when they arrived on the banks of the Mississippi, the river was at flood stage. Her step-father and family forced her to ride the lead oxen across the flooding river into Missouri and safety. It was a terrifying experience she was forced to undertake and from that time on there seems to be no further relationship with her family. She taught school in Independence several years and married Chesney Young, a widower with three daughters.
  There were only a few houses in the community of Westport and their home was situated on the road leading to the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails. Elizabeth Sanford Young assisted the frontiersman, Jim Bridger and others to prepare for their long trips into the wilderness. Bridger was in the first party of white men to discover Great Salt Lake and Salt Lake Desert. Sewing, mending and inventorying supplies were a part of her services.
  By the year 1854, Missouri was in much unrest politically. By 1861, the Civil War and all its devastation was affecting the areas of Belton and Cass County. Order # 11 and the scorched earth policy was enforced. The Chesney Youngs had moved south of Belton one and one - half miles and the home was burned in August, 1861 leaving Elizabeth with her eight children. James Young was then 12 years old and large for his age. He was threatened by hanging with a rope around his neck to make him divulge the whereabouts of his older brothers. James was forced to flee the country. With his sister Rachel and her newborn baby, they rode horseback to Paris, Texas. Enroute, the baby died, and Rachel's husband had been killed in battle. James Young remained in Texas at the barracks, and when the war was over came north living with the Cherokee Indians for about a year before returning to Belton.
  His mother, Elizabeth, was typical of the pioneering frontier women who were on call at all times for medical help. Family history has it that one of the babies she delivered was Frank Blair, Sr. When cholera struck there were no facilities for caring for the ill, Elizabeth used cabbage leaves to help assuage the fever, but many died, including her husband, Chesney. Elizabeth later married Patrick Mullen.
  James Young married Lou Belle Edelen in 1889. She had come with her parents at the close of the Civil War from Kentucky. Her background was caught up in the history of Kentucky. Her grandfather, General Robert B. McAfee, was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, president of the board at West Point, and Ambassador to Bogota, Columbia, under President Polk. General McAfee contributed much to the historical and educational development of Kentucky and after the family migrated to Missouri, Dr. John McAfee became the co-founder of Park College at Parkville, Mo. Eventually he sent his daughter to Wellesley. She was president of that college, later she became the first captain of the WAVES.
  James Hickman Young and Lou Bell Edelen Young were the parents of two children, Euel Bruce and Kathleen.
  Martin Bruce Young the son of Euel and Lucille Martin Young, lives with his wife, Jan, and four children in Overland Park Kansas. Both of his parents are deceased.
  The two daughters of Kathleen and her late husband, Walter J. Barnes, reside with their husbands and children in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, and Walla Walla Washington. Their families consist of six children.
  Thus the descendants of Elizabeth and Chesney Young have now crossed the continent. Information provided by Tommy Kircher

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