General Notes

1  NAME Amandy /Young/


Family Bible shows spelling Amandy

Living with John F. Young on Hendricks Street in 1900 (according to census).

will dated 4 May 1897, recorded 16 Nov 1900
executor John F Young

Monday, November 12, 1900
Death of a Pioneer
Amanda Wright, the oldest Native Shelby County Citizen is Dead

Mrs. Amanda Wright, widow of the late Mathias Wright, died at 4:30 o'clock this morning, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Stewart, of East Pennsylvania Street, this city. Mrs Wright was the oldest native born Shelby County citizen. She was the daughter of John and Nancy Young, and was born just east of the present fair grounds, on September 25, 1822, two months after the county was organized and Shelbyville declared the county seat. She resided in the county all her life and lived to bury her entire family with the exception of the one daughter. Her father was one of the very first settlers of the county, he entering the land that the fair grounds is now a part. He built the old two story frame building that stands east of the fair grounds on the bank of the Little Blue and died there. It was Mr. Young, who deeded to the First M. E. church the lot on which the church edifice stands. Mrs. Wright was a devout Methodist and a good woman. She was a sister of Mr. John F. Young the liveryman. No arrangements have been made for the funeral but it will be sometime Wednesday.