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
ruhu12.com
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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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.
Helen and Morris
Robbie Young
Debra Newman and Family
Debra and Charles and Robbie Young
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