Genealogy Report: Descendants of William Young
Descendants of William Young
21.Jemima4 Young (Thomas3, William2, William1) was born 1777, and died 1860 in Hickman, Tennessee.She married Nathaniel Young 1799, son of Nathaniel Young and Patty Crawford.He was born 1777 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and died 1845.
Notes for Nathaniel Young:
Nathaniel Young, was born in 1777 in 96 District South Carolina, in what would become Spartanburg County in 1785. He was about five or six years old when his father was killed in the Revolution, and apparently grew up under the guidance of his uncle Richard Young, who live two doors away. Nathaniel is first found in Spartanburg County when he was chosen to serve on jury duty, in July 1798; this would then place his birth date by July 1777 since he had to be twenty one years old to be chosen. In 1800 he was living close to Nicholas Holley, Francis Beard, Edward Smith, and Millington Smith; this was the James Creek-Tyger River community at the eastern edge of the county where the Tyger River crosses into Union County. Near the end of the 1790s he had married his cousin Jemima Young [Y5a]. She was born in 1771 in the same area as Nathaniel, daughter of Nathaniel's uncle Thomas Young and Mary. About 1805 Nathaniel, Jemima, and their children moved to Greene Lick Creek in Maury County Tennessee, about eight miles west of Columbia on the south side of the Duck River; his brother Joseph moved soon afterwards, for in December 1808 they were part of a team to lay out a road near Columbia, a job they completed by the following May. In 1814 Nathaniel was commissioned as a Captain in the 51st Regiment along the Duck River near Suck Island. Prior to 1812 he and others (Thomas Hudspeth, Aaron Smith, Joseph Choate, Valentine Pauley, Jesse Radford, William Pillow, etc) petitioned the Maury Court for the establishment of a ferry at Suck Island, so they probably all lived in the area, In 1817 there was a movement to discontinue the road to the Suck Island crossing, but residents nearby petitioned the courts to keep the road open. Of those signing, Nathaniel was one. In 1831 he was a Trustee of the Concord Meeting House in Maury County. On 18 April 1845 Nathaniel wrote his will, which was proven on 25 September 1848. His will was witnessed by sons William I Young and George W Young. Jemima died in the 1860s in Hickman County, probably at the home of her son George, with whom she was living in the 1850s and 1860s.
Children are listed above under (15) Nathaniel Young.