Forwarded from the message boards. Please respond back to the board, through the link below: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EdB.2ACI/1030.2.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Thank you for the reply. My William Young is below: > > John Young biography > > JOHN YOUNG, deceased, was born about the year 1776 in Franklin County, > Penn. His father, William Young, came to what is now Lawrence County in > 1804. John Young, the father of William, had preceded him to Lawrence > County two years. He settled about six miles south of Mercer, and William > died there. William married Mary Elder, by whom he had eight children: > John, David, Elizabeth (married John Sankey, a relative of the great > evangelist, Ira D. Sankey), Margaret (married David Summerville), James, > Mary (married John McCandless), William, Jane (married James Small). John > Young was a minister of the United Presbyterian Church, and went to > Illinois in 1840, where he soon after died. His widow died in 1864, and > had blessed him with five children: Nancy, married David Manuel; Jane, > married Robert Elder, and lives in Lawrence County; William, died in 1861: > James W. and John, the latter a resident of Lawrence County. James W. was > educated in the common schools, and married Mary Mc! > Goun, and had eight children, seven of whom are living: Maria, married > Andrew Fox; Margaret, married Aaron Hingston; John, Fannie, Robert, > Isabella and Sarah. James Young settled on his present farm in Findley > Township in the spring of 1867. He and his wife belong to the First > Presbyterian Church of Mercer. His son, John, who assists in the > management of the farm, was a soldier in the One Hundred and Third > Pennsylvania Volunteers, enlisting in 1864. He and his father are > Democrats, and among the enterprising citizens of the township. > > History of Mercer County, 1888, page 973 > > Mine is Mary Elder who married John McCandless. My John was born between > 1782-1784.