General Notes

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ROBERT YOUNG was born in Fayette County, nine miles west of Lexington,
September 19, 1803, and was the youngest son and tenth child of the eleven
born to John and Cynthia (McCullough) Young, who were natives of Virginia;
John Young having come from Virginia to Kentucky about the middle of the
eighteenth century.  Robert Young was reared on a farm, and educated at
the common schools.  At the age of eighteen he went to Versailles, Woodford
County, where he served an apprenticeship of three years to a hatter.  In
March, 1825, he moved to Nicholasville, Jessamine County, and started
business as a hat manufacturer, continuing in it for twenty years.  He then
bought a farm six miles west of the town, on which he lived about five
years.  He then bought a more desirable and beautiful home within one mile
of the town.  November 22, 1831, he was married to Josephine Henderson, a
native of Simpson County, and a granddaughter of Col. Joseph Crockett of
Revolutionary fame.  Of the children, born to this union, there were seven,
viz.: Daniel Price, Robert Pollock, Elizabeth Taylor, Bennett Henderson (a
prominent lawyer and railroad man, of Louisville, Ky.), Susan Dunn,
Melancthon and Josephine, five of whom are living.  Susan D. Young died in
1872, a bright and interesting young lady.  Daniel Price Young died in his
forty-sixth year, a distinguished and beloved Presbyterian minister.  Mrs.
Josephine Henderson Young died in August, 1882, a woman noted for her piety
and zeal for her church.  Mr. Young is spending a quiet and happy old age
(being in his eighty-fourth year) in his home with his children, and
surrounded by everything to make home happy and life desirable.  Mr. Young
has been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church for a number of years,
and always a most decided advocate of temperance.