----- Original Message ----- From: "Theresa Hodge" <dixiebelle@texoma.net> > Source: KYLAUREL-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [KYLAUREL-L] Rev. John YOUNG > > Also found at URL http://www.colorado.net/skiinstructor/young.html > > REVEREND JOHN FRANKLIN YOUNG 1760 - 1850 > From England Reverend John Franklin Young, his wife, Susan > Elizabeth Parker, their children and household migrated from Greenville, > South Carolina to Laurel County, Kentucky in 1812. > Following the Daniel Boone Trace they arrived in the area that is > now known as Wood Creek Lake Boundary. With a partner, John Phillips, > they owned forty thousand (40,000) acres of land there since the days of > George Washington, 1785, according to the Peck Survey. > Considering the land not suitable for habitation at that time, the > families moved on beyond McWhorter to Pond Creek. The party awoke the > morning after their move to find themselves blanketed under four inches > of snow. > Their hardships were as many and varied as those endured by > pioneers of all times. They hewed farmes, homes, schools and church > houses out of the wilderness. Reverend Young gave the land, built the > building and became the first pastor of the Rockcastle Church of Jesus > Christ as is recorded in the minutes of the meetings signed by Frankie > Seborn Young, the secretary and daughter-in-law of Reverend Young. > The sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of Rev. John Franklin Young > and Susan Elizabeth Parker Young became ministers, teachers, attorneys, > physicians and respected citizens of the community through these six > generations. > Being the owner of slaves and seeing the result of man's inhumanity > to man, Rev. Young advocated the abolition of slavery twenty-five years > before the Emancipation Proclomation. A man of rank of the community > having pierced with a sword one of the twin colored boys playing on the > Rev. Young's lawn, and having killed the child, was challenged to a duel > by the aged minister who killed him. > (Mr. Willard Dunn said this man of rank was Mr. McWhorter for whom > the community of McWhorter was named. Mr. McWhorter was trying to stop > the twins from fighting and accidentally killed one of them. The duel > was fought with swords.)