Archibald Young was born on May 07, 1800 in Ireland. He was the son of James Young and Letty Ann Dunlop. He emigrated to Canada where he married Mary McDonald, daughter of John McDonald and Sally, on May 19, 1843 in St. Raphel, Ontario. She was born about 1798 in Canada. Archibald Young and Mary McDonald had the following children: Angus and James were born on December 14, 1822 in St. Raphel, Ontario, Canada; Letty Ann was born on September 17, 1826 in Ontario, Canada; Mary was born in 1827; John was born in 1828; George was born in 1830; Sally was born in 1836; Jane was born in 1837; Margaret was born in 1839; Archibald was born in 1841, but died in 1844.
The Young-McDonald family lived in the Roman Catholic Parish of St. Raphael established by Alexander McDonell, vicar general and future Roman Catholic Bishop of Upper Canada, the large stone church served a congregation of Gaelic-speaking Catholic Highlanders who had settled in the easternmost county of Upper Canada in 1786. It is recognized as the founding church for the Anglophone Catholics of the province.
Angus Young and his twin brother James were born on December 14, 1822 in St. Raphel, Ontario, Canada. They were baptized on December 17 at the St. Raphael Catholic Church.
At some point before 1850 Angus Young migrated to the United States. According the a 1850 US Census he might have been living in Burke, Franklin County, New York, working as a laborer on the railroad. But by 1851 he made his way to Ohio.
So why did Angus leave Canada? And why did he end up in Ohio? Did he become a US citizen?
So why did Angus leave Canada? And why did he end up in Ohio? Did he become a US citizen?
Angus Young was married to Nancy Runningwater Chapman (a mulatto) on August 5, 1851 in Twin Turnpike, Ross County, Ohio by Jeremiah J. Jones, Justice of the Peace. They had five children: Mary Ellen, born October 25, 1856; Charles born in 1858; Nancy born in 1859, George Edward born May 13, 1860; Jeremiah M. born June 8, 1863.
Why did Angus go to war leaving a wife with small children at home in Ohio?
Why did Angus go to war leaving a wife with small children at home in Ohio?
Angus Young was a private in Company I, commanded by Captain Barnes, in the 73rd Regiment of the Ohio Infantry Volunteers in the War of 1861 (the Civil War). He was enrolled on February 15, 1864 in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. He died in the service of the United States on November 9, 1864 in Chattanooga, Tennessee of injuries from the explosion of an ammunition wagon on October 25, 1864. He was buried in the Chattanooga National Cemetery.
How unfortunate was it for Angus to sign up for a three-year commission and within nine months have an accident which killed him!
How unfortunate was it for Angus to sign up for a three-year commission and within nine months have an accident which killed him!
Nancy Runningwater Chapman filed claim for widow's pension, with minor children on August 9, 1865; then after several iterations and multiple affidavits were supplied, finally filed on November 16, 1868. She was to receive $8 per month plus $2 each child until the reached the age of sixteen.
Mary Ellen Young married Edwin M Cooper, son of Goodwin Cooper and Rebecca Ann Pettiford, in 1875.
George Edward Young married Emma Jane Bird, daughter of Reuben Madison Bird and Sarah E Hemings, on December 31, 1879. George died April 4, 1942.
Jeremiah M. "Jerry" Young married Alice Redman, daughter of Hanson Redman and Recie Marie Napper, on August 29, 1905. (He had been married once before.) He was a cement maker. Jerry died July 21, 1941.
Angus Young was my 3x-great-grandfather. George Edward Young was my 2x-great-grandfather.
