Young, Addie N.

b. 27 Feb 1878

d. 21 Dec 1890

Young, Belle

b. 20 Nov 1868

d. 12 Dec 1869

Young, Edna V.

b. 24 Dec 1887

d. 7 Dec 1889

Young, James A.

b. 6 Apr 1870

d. 6 Dec 1890

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Genealogy Notes

John H. Young and Jimima Anna Watson were married in Gillespie County, Texas, on January 13, 1868.  They moved to the west part of Kerr County and lived near the present town of Ingram.    The hardship of life in those early days was evident by the discovery many years later of stones marking the graves of four of their children.   The property owner found the broken stones and carefully restored them, then put them in a safer place with a pipe fence around it.   

James Allen Young, who is listed as one of the four buried at the Young Family Plot, grew to young adulthood and married Nancy Jane Cade in Kerr County on the 4^th of July 1890.   Just 6 months later, he died and left Nancy a widow.   But she was already carrying their son.    James Edward Young was born the following spring on April 11, 1891.    Nancy was the daughter of Gilford Cade and his wife, Frances.   She and the baby lived with her brother, Herschell, while her son grew up.    He eventually reached adulthood and moved to San Antonio.   He married Rosa___ about 1914 and worked as a motorman on a street car in the city.   Tragically, James Edward died of tuberculosis on July 23, 1922, at the young age of 34.

James’ grandfather, John H. Young, died between 1890 and 1900 but his widow, Anna, continued to farm their land.  She lived in Kerr County during that time, then moved to Gillespie County and eventually went to Hopkins County when her youngest son, Albert, moved there about 1920 to work as an auto mechanic.   Anna died in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins Co., Texas, on February 5, 1923.   She was the daughter of James Watson and his wife, Mary Jane, who also lived in Kerr County in those early days.  

One of John’s and Anna’s children was a daughter, Cora Lee Young, who married Joseph Edward Lackey on June 11, 1899, in Kerr County.   He died in 1918 of pneumonia and Cora Lee soon married a family friend, Joe Denton, who was also widowed.   Cora and Joseph Edward Lackey had seven children.

Cora’s brother, Charles H. Young, married Henrietta Evans in Kerr County on November 9, 1893.  After farming in the Ingram area, he and Etta moved to San Antonio where she worked as a Laundress and their daughter, Lena, was a private nurse.   Charles had no occupation at that time (1910) which may indicate he was disabled in some way.

The youngest child of John & Anna Young, was Albert who became an auto mechanic and moved to Sulphur Springs in Hopkins County, Texas, by 1920.   His wife’s name was Donna and his mother,

Anna, lived with them.   Anna Watson Young lived to be 72 years of age and spent her final years in the household of her youngest son, Albert.   She died and was buried in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins Co., Texas.

The Children of John H. Young and Anna Watson

*Georgia, Maud and “Fred” were siblings who were survivors of Cora Lee (Young) Denton
according to her obituary in “Grimes Funeral Chapels 1930-1959” by Maxine Powell.

The Children of Charles H. Young and Henrietta Evans

The Children of Cora Lee Young and Joseph Edward Lackey

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Photos by Jeanne Sutton
Genealogy Compiled by Shirley Webb
copyright © May 2009