| 8. | Captain William Young, w/Ind (son of who?) was born about 1760 in Virginia (son of Young, (killed by Indians)); died in 1799 in Sanderson Branch of Dixon Springs, Smith Co, Tennessee; was buried in Tillman Dixon's land. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: Abt 1788, South Carolina
- Residence: Aft 1790, Smith Co (Sumner Co), Tennessee
- Residence: Aft 1800, Simpson Co, Kentucky
- Baptism.: 7 May 1843, Nauvoo Temple by proxy by his grandson Alphonzo
Notes:
According to family tradition in the Young family, William Young came to middle TN from SC by way of KY. He settled in what is now Smith Co., making his home on Sanderson's Branch of Peyton?s Creek. He died in 1799 and was buried on Tillman Dixon?s land in what is now Dixon Springs. According to a manuscript in the TN state archives, entitled "The Young Lineage", by Dr William Byrd Young, when William Young migrated to Middle TN "William Marchbanks and Sampson Williams came with him, and each of them afterward married a daughter of him." William Marchbanks married Jane Young and Margaret of course married Sampson Williams
A History Of Smith County,TN." William Young returned to Virginia from captivity. He was probably captive in Cherokee, North Carolina or Coker Creek area of TN. William married Elizabeth Holland and moved to South Carolina. Later he moved to Simpson Co.,Ky. Next he moved to Smith (then Sumner) County TN. He finally settled in what is now Pleasant Shade community. In 1798 William died after returning home from New Orleans. He was in New Orleans to visit his brother, Major John Young.
The Widow Young referred to in the journal of Steiner & Schweinitz was Elizabeth Holland Young, late wife of William Young -- no relation to the William Young married to Elizabeth Huff. The story is that he was captured by Indians when he was a child in Virginia and held by them for eight years (FHL 976.852/H2h, vol 1, section F839-840). Because he was too small to keep up with the tribe, the Cherokee captor said he would end the boy?s life. At that point another Indian stepped forward and said, "I want him for my slave, give him to me!" Later, William and his older brother John, also a captive of the tribe called the Overhill Indians, claimed they had been taken as far west as "the chalk plains." They were deeply indoctrinated in Indian ways, until William was 21 years old and an official treaty freed him and his brother to be repatriated. But John had to persuade William to leave the tribe.
This particular William Young married Elizabeth Holland and moved to South Carolina and then to Kentucky. Soon after his marriage, he left home to hunt along the Cumberland River. On Christmas night in 1779 he and his young friend, a man named Marchbanks, camped on the north bank of the river and watched while James Robertson and his party crossed the ice to settle the town now called Nashville. That same night, his wife gave birth to a baby girl back home, who much later grew up to marry Marchbanks. Eventually William and his wife Elizabeth Holland settled on Sanderson Branch of Peyton Creek in Pleasant Shade,Tennessee. When he died in 1799 at Tillman Dixon?s house in Dixon Springs Tennessee, he was buried still wearing Indian rings in his nose and ears. After her husband?s death, Elizabeth Holland Young married Mike Murphy.
Post-em note in Rootsweb tree:
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Died:
In 1798 William died after returning home from New Orleans. He was in New Orleans to visit his brother, Major John Young.
William married Elizabeth Holland. Elizabeth was born about 1788. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1865 - 1880 (15 years)