James M. Young, a prominent farmer, was born in Haywood County, Tenn., April
5, 1838, and was the second of three sons born to E. G. and Rebecca (Byler)
Young, and of Scotch-Irish descent. The father was born in South Carolina,
October 26, 1794, and moved with his parents to Georgia when six years old. At
twelve years of age he was taken to Middle Tennessee, where he was raised and
educated. When grown he went to northern Alabama, where he married, and in a
few years he moved to West Tennessee, moving his household goods by flat-boat
down the Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the mouth of Forked Deer
River, and up that stream to within six miles of where our subject now
resides, and settled in Haywood County. James M. Young was raised on a farm
and well educated. He enlisted in the Confederate Army, Company E., First
Tennessee Cavalry, as first lieutenant, and served in that capacity for two
years and a half, and was in the battles of Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mountain and
Murfreesboro; was twice captured, once in Kentucky, and was held for a while
at Louisville, and then at Murfreesboro, when he was taken to Camp Chase,
Ohio, and held for four months, when he was transferred to Fort Delaware, and
was exchanged a month later, and joined the army at Chattanooga and assisted
in covering the retreat of Johnston from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and in this
retreat was exposed to continual fire for thirty-two days. Mr. Young was
married April 5, 1867, to Miss Susan M. Buck, daughter of Henry Buck, a
prominent farmer of Haywood County. She was born in that county in 1850.
Three sons and three daughters were born to this marriage — five still
living: Henry G., Horace O., James E., Martha E., Stella May (deceased) and
Nellie. Mr. and Mrs. Young are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and
he is a Democrat.

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN