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Family Histories
Young Family
The
descendants of Thomas
Elbert and Mary Ellen
(Ayers) Young gathered
on Friday, June 16,2006
to place a bronze plaque
(shown above) at the
Upper Hope Cemetery in
memory of their
grandparents and
parents. The plaque
stands above the
headstone inscribed
Thomas E. Sept. 4 1868,
Oct. 25, 1952; Mary E.
Nov. 14,1872, Aug.
26,1969. The
grandchildren, pictured
at right, are Vivian
Marrs of Tucson, Ariz.;
Don Young of Hope; Tom
Young of Ruidoso; Wilma
Lane of Cloudcroft; Dale
Young of Amarillo,
Texas; Carolyn Hawkins
of Delta, British
Columbia, Canada; Ann
Chappell of Memphis,Tex.; Alta Ruth Crowson
of Austin, Texas; Patsy
Cochran of Fayetteville,
Ark. and Barbara Lynn
James of Sun City, Ariz.
In addition to the 10
grand children in
attendance at the family
reunion June 15-18 were
10 great-grandchildren,
8
great-great-grandchildren.
With spouses, there were
a grand total of 40
family members at the
reunion.
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The Young family came
from Dickens County,
Texas to Hope, New
Mexico in 1908 in
buggies and wagons with
seven children. They
rented a farm the first
year and in 1909 filed
on a claim on Penasco
Creek. This was 12 miles
from Hope and is now a
part of the Penasco Creek
Ranch. Mrs. Young
insisted that all her
children graduate from
high school. This took
some time as the boys
took time off from
school to work on
ranches in the area.The
older children first
attended school at the
White School house near the Upper
Hope Cemetery. When this
school closed, they went
to the Hope School..Mr. Young built a school
bus on a Model "T" Ford
truck with wooden top
and sides, wooden
benches and curtains.
His son Joe drove it
first until he graduated
and then his son Tom
drove.
The first bale of Cotton
in Hope to be harvested
was by the
Young's.
In later years, a
daughter, Lella, taught
school on ranches. A
son, Jesse, and a
daughter-in- law, Letha,
taught school at Hope.
In 1911, Mr. Young
harvested the first bale
of cotton in the area
using water from Penasco
Creek. Irrigation
ditches and a cistern
are still visible today.
In 1913, he rented a
place with an orchard
from Ben Childress. In
1918, he bought the
Johnson place and moved
his family of ten
children there. This
farm had extensive apple
orchard. They farmed,
raised sheep and cows
and sold cream. From the
1940-s until the 1960's
the family operated a
dairy. A granddaughter
Ruth Crowson, still owns
the place.
For the 2000 reunion,
the family
compiled "A Collection
of Young Family
recipies, Letters
& Nostalgia." Here are a
few recipes taken from
the book.
Fudge Frosting
Ingredients:
3
cups sugar
3
tablespoons cocoa
1
1/2 cups evaporated milk
2
tablespoons butter
1
teaspoon vanilla
Instructions:
Mix
sugar, cocoa. Add milk
and
cook in heavy pan on
medium heat, stirring
often
until it makes a medium
firm
ball , when 1/2
teaspoon is
dropped in cold water.
Set pan in cold
water until
almost cool..
Add
vanilla and butter. Beat
until right consistency
for
spreading. Should it
thicken too rapidly,
just add a
few
drops of milk at a time
and
beat. Wilma Lane
Cloudcroft
Mother Young's
Milk Toast
Oven toast slices of
homemade bread
until very dry. Heat
milk.
Stir in toast, add
butter and eat.Probably
about 1/3 cup milk for
each piece of toast
depending on
how
dry or moist you like
the toast.
Wiima Lane
Cloudcroft
Mother Young's Rolls
(Mary Cone Young,
wife of Joe Young)
Ingredients:
1 cup warm water
1 package dry yeast
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons shortening
flour
Mother Young's
Crackling Bread
Put cracklings in pan.
Add
hot
water (or warm), salt
and
meal (for the amount you
want), Pat out with your
hands
into individual pones.
Bake in
hot
oven. Experiment with
times and temperatures.
Don &
Katie Young Hope, NM
submitted by Virginia
Stanbrough
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