This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Young Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZMB.2ACI/1881 Message Board Post: In 1880, there was a man living in Finley Township named Allen Young. He was listed as "Black", and 28 years old. His wife was also 28 and listed as "NA". She was born in Indian Territory. They had three children listed as "Mulatto". Lewis age 4, Martha age 3, and Mary age 1. I would like to know more about them if it is possible. Who their parents were and what happened to them. Thanks brian in springfield missouri

There was an article in OzarksWatch quite a few years ago about Allen & "Indian Annie" Young. It was the issue on the African Americans of the Ozarks. A young girl, abandoned by an Indian tribe passing through in 1855 was taken in by the Archibald Alexander Young family, called Annie and, as an adult, married one of the Young families' former slaves about her age, a man who had taken the name Allen Young after emancipation. They lost three children at a young age and raised two daughters, Mary and Annie and three sons Riley/Doc, Lon and Lewis Washington - and have many descendants. The 1870 Christian County Census says that Annie was Cherokee: Young, Alex 45 Farmer TN Mary 31 TN Samuel 13 MO James 6 MO Mary 1 MO Anna 18 Housekeeping Cherokee Nation Allen and Ann married before the 1876 Agricultural Census Young, Allen c m 21 - 45 Porter-064-39 Young, Ann c f 21 - 45 Porter-064-40 The 1880 Christian County Census lists Ann as Indian and says she was born in Indian Territory Indian Annie parents' names were not recorded. I don't know whether Allen knew his parents' names. Your best bet to learn that would be a search of the Christian County Slave Schedules. I don't have either Allen or Ann in the legible tombstones or the mortuary records of Christian County, so I'm unsure when they died or where they are buried. Allen apparently died before 1900. Finley1900 MO Christian Logan 315 Ann YOUNG W M Head May 1854 46 W 8-5 IT IT IT Wash YOUNG W M Son Aug 1876 23 S MO MO IT Farmer Mary YOUNG W F Dau Dec 1878 21 S MO MO IT Lon YOUNG W M Son Oct 1880 19 S MO MO IT Farm Labor Riley YOUNG W M Son Sep 1882 17 S MO MO IT Farm Labor Annie YOUNG W F Dau Aug 1884 15 S MO MO IT http://www.rootsweb.com/~moccl/CCMo1st100/cc_chapter3_59.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~moccl/CCMo1st100/cc_chapter3_60.htm OzarksWatch Magazine Volume XI, Numbers 3 & 4 <default.asp> - Indian Annie, by Katherine Lederer lee953go@yahoo.com wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Young >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZMB.2ACI/1881 > >Message Board Post: > > In 1880, there was a man living in Finley Township named Allen Young. He was listed as "Black", and 28 years old. His wife was also 28 and listed as "NA". She was born in Indian Territory. They had three children listed as "Mulatto". Lewis age 4, Martha age 3, and Mary age 1. I would like to know more about them if it is possible. Who their parents were and what happened to them. Thanks brian in springfield missouri > > >==== MOCHRIST Mailing List ==== >Check out the Christian Co Missouri, MOGenWeb site at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/ > >============================== >View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find >marriage announcements and more. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > > >