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Young Family
Annals of Newberry, Part Two by John A. Chapman,
page 637-38

Abram Young, Sr., came to America from County Down, Ireland, and died here in 1802. He had four sons and seven
daughters, viz.: Joseph, Thompson, James and Abram; the daughters names after marriage being: Nancy Brown, Betsey
Fair, Mary Thompson, Hannah Carmichael, Jennie Gregg, Abby, or Abia Carmichael, and Esther Boyd, afterward Esther
Carr. Abram Young, Jr., married a Carmichael, by whom he had six sons, Thompson, Joseph, Abram, James, Nathan and
Arthur. Thompson Young, now living in his eighty third year, married Mary Hunter. To them were born one son, Natha
H., and two daughters, Amanda, now living with her fatber, and Mary Ann, the wife of James H. Dennis. Nathan was
a soldier during the late war, in the Third South Carolina Regiment. He married Nancy Dennis, by whom he
had two sons,
Thompson and Augustus. All the Youngs, except Thompson and his family, removed to Georgia. Nathan and Arthur died,
and lie buried in Prosperity Cemetery. Thompson Young, nephew of Thompson Young just mentioned, has returned to
Newberry, and makes his home at the old Ramage place, having married Mary, the daughter of J. J. Paysinger. He
returned to Newberry in 1890.

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