Serena Windham and Beth Ruyle: 2016

Young Family ca 1950's

Mable Barrow Young

Clarence Oscar Young

Mable Young is in the bonnet, her father Charles Oscar (Charlie) Young is holding both children, Bill Richardson who is Mable's nephew but very close to the same age as Mable, and Mable's mother Mable Barrow Young standing.

Photos and information provided by Mary Bagwell, niece of Mable Young.

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Hello, Serena

Thank you for sending the blog. I looked at the first picture but will check the rest out and send the link on to my sisters. I definitely see a resemblance in both of you. Beth looks a great deal like Mable and I believe Serena favors Ethel and Vestella a little more.

Mable was one of nine children but two of them, Johnny and Mary, died when they were small and one brother Theo was drowned when he was a young man. He may have been working on the Lake Okeechobee dam when it broke and killed a number of people but I do not know this for a fact.

Vestella was the oldest sister and married Luther Richardson. They had three children, Bill, Carolyn and Charlotte. Bill and Mable were only about 2 weeks apart in age. Carolyn lives in Birmingham and she may be the one who could tell you the most about Mable. Charlotte passed away in 2004 almost a year after Mable.

Clarence was the oldest son and her married Mildred Murray from Americus. I am the oldest of five daughters. My sisters are Grace, Dorothy, Carol and Helen.

Charles was the next brother and he moved to Little Rock after serving in World War II. His wife was named Jean and they had a son Robert and a daughter Debra. Charles died of lung cancer around 1960 and Jean remarried so we have not had much contact with them but Debra and I do correspond sometimes.

Ethel married Ralph Walters and lived in Ellaville but they had no children.

James the youngest brother was killed in action on Normandy beach in World War II.

This is a very short summary of the family but I hope it gives you an idea. I will find more pictures for you. I have one of Mable when she was probably in her twenties and will send it as soon as I locate it.

Mary

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I know all of this must be quite a shock to you, but I am so excited to be able to meet you and find relatives. I know Mable was your aunt, but whose child are you and whose child is Bill Richardson? I would love to meet all of you. It has been wonderful finding Beth, because I always wanted a sister. I know Mable would have been proud of us. I will send you a blog (put out by Craig, Beth's husband)

Serena

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James Young KIA WW II

Farm of Charles Oscar Young - Barn is now demolished

Ethel Young Waters

Good Morning Serena,

It was a pleasure to speak with you last night. I am sorry if I did not make a lot of sense. I was rather surprised.

I am attaching a few pictures for you. The recent picture was made in 1997. The group picture is Mable in the bonnet, her father, Bill Richardson who is very close to the same age as Mable and her mother standing. The other two are her mother, (Mable Barrow Young), our grandmother, one was made in the 50's when she was probably in her early sixties or late fifties and the other when she was young. I have others but will have to look for them.

I also have a family history that Mable compiled I will give you a copy of that.

If you had rather come to my house than meet downtown that would be fine too. I thought it might be easier for you to meet but we can work that out. I will talk to my sisters and see if they have any more information.

Mary

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Mary, it is very nice to meet you and to see the family pictures. As the "unknown" I am sure it is a shock for you to have both Serena and I turn up.

I hope to have the opportunity to meet you when we are in Atlanta and await hearing about your meeting with Serena. My adoptive family (Covington) as well as Serena are in Georgia so I expect we will be in Georgia more often. I left my job at the Atlanta Regional Commission to move to Chicago and met Craig there. He kept me in the northland. At this moment facing below zero temps next week, I am finally getting him to look at southern climes. There are a great number of articles about my professional activities if you Google Beth Ruyle in case you are curious. I am afraid Serena is the nicer sister and I the spoiled "baby".

More info about Beth Ruyle here

bethruyle.com

evelynelizabethsmith.blogspot.com

ruyleresume.blogspot.com

ruhu12.com

Great Grand Parents

John Jacob Young m Mary Horne Jones

Martha Young
Charlie Young
John Young
Louisa Young
Alice Young
Jane Young
Susie Young
George Young

After Mary's death, John Jacob Young married Mary Frances Elizabeth Hearn, and they had one son named William.

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Grand Parents

Charles Oscar (Charlie) Young m. Mable Barrow

Children

Clarence Oscar Young m. Mildred Murray

Vestella Young m. Luther Richardson

John William Young died in childhood

Theo Dedrick Young - drowned when he was a young man

Mary Alice Young - died in childhood

Charles Henry Young m. Jean

Ethel Electra Young m. Ralph Walters

James Barrow Young was killed in action on Normandy beach in World War II

Mable Young m Burnam d. 2003

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Cousins

Clarence Young m. Mildred Murray

--------Mary Young Bagwell _

--------Grace Young

------- Dorothy Young

--------Carol Young

------- Helen Young

Vestella Young m. Luther Richardson

--------Bill Richardson _______

--------Carolyn Richardson--------

_._ Charlotte Richardson

Charles Young m. Jean

--------Robert Young

--------Debra Young

Mable Young

--------Serena Young Windam

--------Beth Young Ruyle Hullinger

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Serena Young Windam

Derek Watson

Christy Watson Rogers

Beth Young Ruyle Hullinger

Leigh Ann Masen

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Lee County Georgia

John Jacob Young, age 35, immigrant, and his friend John Deddrick came to America from Wutenburg, Germany and settled in Lee County, Georgia in 1847. The State of Georgia bestowed to John Jacob a grant for a lot of land in Lee County, two miles east of what is now known as Smithville, Georgia.

He built his home and married in 1861 to Mary Horne Jones a widow, with one daughter named Victoria. They were the parents of Martha, Charlie, John, Louisa, Alice, Jane, Susie and George. After Mary's death, he married Mary Frances Elizabeth Hearn, and they had one son named William.

While raising his children, he built the first rural school on his property; a three room wooden house. His sons were educated thru the sixth grade, then worked on the farm. His daughters went to school longer. Later years when the land was surveyed, this three room school house was half on Young's property and half over the line.

Charlie Young was owner at this time and gave the wooden school to the other land owner if he would move it. The old three room wooden school house was moved three feet over the line and remained until it was torn down in 1942.

Charles Oscar (Charlie) Young, born February 22, 1864, married March 20, 1901 to Mable Barrow, born October 19, 1882, lived in Lee County, Georgia. They were the parents of Clarence Oscar, Vestella, Johnnie William, Theo Dedrick, Mary Alice, Ethel Electra, Charles Henry, James Barrow and Mable Grace.

There were 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild in her lifetime. (See Barrow family.) Their sons and grandson served in the service in World War II in defense for the United States of America; Charles Henry served three years with the Air Force. James Barrow served in the infantry for eight months and was killed in the line of duty. A Purple Heart was awarded to his mother. Grandson was William Luther Richardson, Jr. served with the Marine Corps for three years.

Charles Oscar (Charlie) Young was a public servant and a religious leader during his life.

Submitted by Mabel Young Burnham Published in the Lee County, Georgia, A

History Copyright 1983 Library of Congress Catalog Number 83-050159

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YOUNG FAMILY DESCENT

John Jacob Young b. 1812, m. in 1861 Mary Horne Jones
They were the parents of:

Charles Oscar Young b. Feb 22, 1864, m. March 20, 1901 to Mable Barrow, b. Oct 19, 1882

They were the parents of:

Mable Young Burnam b. 7/17/24, d. 11/30/2003

She was the parent of:

Serena Young Windham b. 1944. and Elizabeth Young Smith Ruyle b. 1946

Serena was the parent of:
Derek Watson b. 1972

Christy Tucker b. 1975

Christy was the parent of:

Olivia Tucker Evelyn b.2006

Elizabeth Young Smith Ruyle m. Richard Ruyle and was the parent of:
Leigh Ann Ruyle b. 1968

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EXCERPTS FROM BARROW BRANCHES

VOLUME XI NUMBER 1 JUNE 2008

EXCERPTS FROM LETTER WRITTEN

BY MARY MEADOWS

Submitted by Franklin Barrows

Family tradition had it that we have a little Indian blood. Family historians a generation older that I maintain that this Mildred Powell (GGGGrandmother) who married our Revolutionary War veteran Moses Barrow in North Carolina was an Indian, probably a half-blooded Cherokee. If true and we believe it is, we are 1/128 of Indian blood in my generation.

My grandmother, "Miss Leck", always told us we were part Indian. She and others also related the dark Indian look of a great-uncle, the Baptist preacher Rev. James Barrrow (1801-1884) who visited Moses J. Barrow in Smithville, Georgia.

As a boy I knew the Young cousins best. Their farm was in Lee County, east of Smithville, toward Leslie, not far from the Stanford farm which was to the southeast of that. Their three youngest children, Charles, James, and Mable were close to my brother and me in age and seemed to be more niece and nephews to my mother than the cousins they were. In the late 1920's and early 30's we visited back and forth but it was usually us going to the country because they didn't get much time off their chores to come to Albany.

In the summer we would pick bullises, wild grapes, down in the woods, ride the mule, watch the farm work or go swimming in Muckalee Creek. Our winter visits were short and mostly to participate in the annual hog-killing, an operation carried out during a spell of cold weather. The Young family had been fairly well off but the deepening agricultural depression of that time kept taking their fortunes lower. The older children, Clarence and Vestella, had been sent to college and Vestella made a good marriage, but by the time the younger ones got up to that age hard times had a grip on them. James was called into the U.S. Army in World War II and was killed in Europe.

Over the years we have almost completely lost touch with these people. But long go they afforded us the experience of living in the country – outdoor privy put back, well in the front yard, wash basins on the side porch, and cooking on a wood-fired stove. The men ploughed mules and did field work and chores around the house and barns. The women kept the place and cooked three meals a day. We are grateful to them for their hospitality, for making us so welcome, and a bit ashamed that we looked somewhat down on them as poor, country cousins.

One event when cousin James was visiting us in Albany (809 Highland Ave.) sticks in my memory. Walter Keenan was bathing in the tub which sat a few inches from the wall with the pipes exposed. James seemed fascinated with the tub bathing process and watched it leaning on the pipes in the space next to the wall. Somehow his midsection slipped down so far that he became jammed between the wall and the tub and pipes. My father had to call a plumber who extricated James only by cutting off the water and disconnecting the pipe.