For Cole Younger's grandmother to have been a daughter of this man (Lighthorse Harry) would have been highly unlikely. Cole's father Henry Washington Younger was born in 1810, son of Charles Younger born in 1779, whose father Joshua Younger was born in 1752. To be the mother of Charles Younger, Miss Lee would have to have been born between 1766 and 1849, making her from 13-50 years old at his birth. I hope you are following this train of thought. Lighthorse Harry Lee was born 1756, four years younger than Joshua Logan Younger. For his daughter to be the mother of Charles Younger, here are the candidates: Daughters with first wife, Matilda Lee- 1. Lucy Grymes Lee (ONLY CANDIDATE) b 1786; d 1860 m bef 1802 Bernard Moore Carter who dies in 1850; together having a son in 1802. 2. Unknown female who was born and died in 1790. Harry marries a second time in 1793, BUT, Charles was already having children himself by this time! It was stated by Cole Younger that some type of genealogy chart hung on the Younger family wall and was burned by Union soldiers, likely meaning when they burned his home it went too. I have not read what part of his family this chart contained... Younger or Fristoe, or both. This may have been where Cole learned of his ancestry. If we find more about what was contained on this wall hanging we might know just who he was referring to. (I am going to go back over his bio tonight and read it again, its a small book!) I was told by a librarian that a very old "book of genealogy" existed on the Cole Younger's ancestors, again not stating which branch. I believe she stated this book was being inventoried, but never reached shelving, as it was stolen. I think I am repeating this story, sorry but I write to so many folks out there. Wilma, I too am a shirt-tail (I think this includes me) relative to the Youngers and the more I find out about them and the war and what was done to his sisters and mother it gets upsetting. One of my families took Bursheba and the children in when they fled from Jackson to Waverly in Lafayette county. The husband was shot and killed in his own yard for not telling where Quantrell, Frank James and Cole Younger had gone, as they had been staying in the barn there. This was John Wigginton (killed 25 Aug 1864) and his wife Mary Ann, 1st cousin to Bursheba and gr gr (?) aunt to me. Does anyone have the actual Rev War Records for Joshua Logan Younger? It appears from a DAR report that it states his first wife was Lizzie Lee and I am wondering if this is in the record, or a DAR claim??? I would like a copy of this record and may send for it if no one has a copy I might obtain. Again, Wilma H.- I believe you might be onto something when you say Cole may have not known his blood grandmother and believing his grandmother to be Catharine Yoter. Does anyone have anything on her ancestry other than her birth-death? Being that she came from exactly where Cole stated the Youngers came, I believe this is where it's stem lies. I have also seen that some have George Younger and Miss Pearce as parents of Humphrey Younger (1677-1740), any response to where this came from? Interesting about Barren county and settlement of Kentucky. As stated I am re-gathering sources (which is coming along nicely) as I can and will certainly look more deeply into the mother of Charles Lee Younger! It might be an idea to look into early settlers of Indiana for information on Joshua, such as histories-settlements. It is also an avenue I will be travelling, to see who Elizabeth Lee was (and if she died or was married), daughter of Henry Lee and Lucy Grymes and sister to Lighthorse Harry. I was under the impression this family (LEE) had been researched and highly documented, so I had not looked further into the Lees as they are a tangled bunch into early Virginia. Linda in KCMO