YOUNG, CEPHAS. 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—Malinda,
Elizabeth, Ewing, Lucinda. Winnie, Francis M. and 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—Andrew J., Nancy Galbraith and 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 - Richard B., Edwin M., Emma J., Dora E., and Adolphus.
Our subject owns 120 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and
stock-raising. In politics he is Independent.