Many thanks to Harriet May Chase, who led me to this URL. http://www8.50megs.com/tabby/SteveYoung/onetosix.htm Steve Young, San Fran 49ers quarterback emeritus :-) is descended from Emily Dow PARTRIDGE and ultimately William/1 PARTRIDGE the immigrant. >From Tabby's Ahnentafel: <<38. Brigham YOUNG was born 1 June 1801 in Whitingham, Windham County, Vermont. He died 29 August 1877 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah and was buried 2 September 1877 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Brigham married Emily Dow PARTRIDGE on September 1844 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. 39. Emily Dow PARTRIDGE (a widow of the Prophet Joseph Smith) was born 28 February 1824 in Painesville, Geauga (Lake) County, Ohio. She died 13 December 1899 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah and was buried 13 December 1899 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. >> This is one of Steve's two YOUNG lines; the other is from Brigham's bro Joseph -- Steve's actual paternal line. 1. William PARTRIGG/1 (1620?-1688) + Mary SMITH (1625?-1680) 2. Col. Samuel PARTRIDGE/2 (1645-1740) + Mehitable CROW (1652?-1730) (see below for Mehitable's WHITE-GOODWIN-CROW line) 3. Edward PARTRIDGE/3 (1683-1745) + Martha WILLIAMS (1690-1766) 4. Oliver PARTRIDGE/4 (1712-92) + Anna WILLIAMS (1716-1802) (a cousin marriage; via this multi-clergyman WILLIAMS-STODDARD line Steve is kin to the Rev. Jonathan EDWARDS and Aaron BURR) 5. William PARTRIDGE/5 (1753-1836) + Jemima BIDWELL (1765-1842) 6. Edward PARTRIDGE Sr./6 (1793-1840) + Lydia CLISBEE (1793-1878) 7. Emily Dow PARTRIDGE/7 (1824-99) + Brigham YOUNG (1801-77) (Emily PARTRIDGE was a widow of Mormon founder Joseph SMITH, killed by a mob in Nauvoo, Illinois). 8. Emily Augusta YOUNG (1849-1926) + Hiram B. CLAWSON (1826-1912) 9. Carlie L. Young CLAWSON (1869-1965) + Seymour B. YOUNG (1868-1941) (Seymour was a direct descendant of Brigham's bro Joseph and Jane Bicknell -- Steve's male line. Brigham YOUNG is a female line for Steve.) 10. Scott Richmond YOUNG ( - ) + Louise LEONARD ( - ) 11. LeGrand YOUNG ( - ) + Sherry STEED ( - ) 12. Jon Steven YOUNG (1961- ) Other sources: Steve's parents and grandparents from http://genweb.whipple.org/d0236/i16631.html PARTRIDGE lineage from http://www.surnames.com/gedcom/de_lapp_dorothy/d228.htm and Raven Genealogy, _passim_) More on Emily PARTRIDGE and her sister Eliza -- both were widows of Joseph SMITH: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/6552/emilypartridge.htm Steve's and my common ancestors are Samuel PARTRIDGE and Mehitable CROW. Mehitable's ancestry (dates from Nancy Schott): 1. Robert WHITE (d. 1617) + Bridget ALGAR (b. 1562) - Co. Essex, ENG. 2. Elizabeth WHITE/1 (1590/91 - 1673) + Elder William GOODWIN (d. 1672/3) 3. Elizabeth GOODWIN/2 (d. 1673) + John CROW (1606 - 1685/86) 4. Mehitable CROW/3 (1652?-1730) + Col. Samuel PARTRIDGE (1645-1740). Note: Per convention, generational numbering begins with the immigrant generation. Note: Robert and Bridget WHITE's ancestry has been traced several generations back in ENG. Note: I have no parentage for the immigrants: William/1 PARTRIDGE - from Berwick-on-Tweed, Co. Northumberland, ENG[?] Mary/1 SMITH William/1 GOODWIN - from Co. Essex, ENG. John/1 CROW Yrs aye, Warren Wetmore