Wayne County

Ewing Young

1884 Biographical Sketches of Lamard Twp

EWING YOUNG farmer, P. O. Fairfield, was born in the year 1820 in Wayne County, Ill. He was a son of John Young, of Wayne County, Ill., formerly of Kentucky.

Our subject was educated in a Wayne County, Ill., pioneer schoolhouse. He is a member of the M. E. Church.

He was married, December 16, 1841, to Miss Emily Craven, daughter of Robert Craven, of North Carolina, and by whom he has had ten children, seven living—

  1. Johnson
  2. America
  3. Sarah J
  4. Robert
  5. Pruda
  6. Emily
  7. Elmer

Our subject owns 620 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. In politics he is Independent.



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