Wayne County

Cephas Young

1884 Biographical Sketches of Lamard Twp

CEPHAS YOUNG farmer, P. O. Fairfield, was born March 22, 1833, in Wayne County, Ill. He was a son of John Young, of Wayne County, Ill., formerly of Kentucky, where he was born August, 1789. He died March 26, 1878, in Wayne County, Ill., and was buried in the family cemetery. He was married, in the year 1808, to Susan Lock, who was born in the year 1789, and who died in the year 1835 in Wayne County, Ill., and was buried in the family cemetery. They had thirteen children, seven living—

  1. Malinda
  2. Elizabeth
  3. Ewing
  4. Lucinda
  5. Winnie
  6. Francis M
  7. Cephas

After the death of Mrs. Susan Young, John Young was married the second time, in the year 1836, to Sarah Reed, of Tennessee, by whom he had four children, three living—

  1. Andrew J
  2. Nancy Galbraith
  3. Mariah Blague
Sarah, wife of John Young, died January 10, 1853. Our subject was educated in Wayne County, Ill., in a pioneer schoolhouse. He carried the United States mail in their neighborhood, when a young man, from 1847 to 1851. He is a member and a local preacher of the M. E. Church, and has been for .the past twenty-two years. He is also a member of the United Workmen.

He was married, July 1, 1852, in Wayne County, IL, to Nancy J. Stinson, of Illinois, who was born July 29, 1837, by whom the subject had ten children, five living—

  1. Richard B
  2. Edwin M
  3. Emma J
  4. Dora E
  5. Adolphus.

Our subject owns 120 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising.  In politics he is Independent.

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