{"id":3369,"date":"2022-01-10T17:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:53:21","slug":"young-james-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/young-james-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Young, James M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James M. Young<\/strong>, a prominent farmer, was born in Haywood County, Tenn., April<br \/>\n5, 1838, and was the second of three sons born to E. G. and Rebecca (Byler)<br \/>\nYoung, and of Scotch-Irish descent. The father was born in South Carolina,<br \/>\nOctober 26, 1794, and moved with his parents to Georgia when six years old. At<br \/>\ntwelve years of age he was taken to Middle Tennessee, where he was raised and<br \/>\neducated. When grown he went to northern Alabama, where he married, and in a<br \/>\nfew years he moved to West Tennessee, moving his household goods by flat-boat<br \/>\ndown the Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the mouth of Forked Deer<br \/>\nRiver, and up that stream to within six miles of where our subject now<br \/>\nresides, and settled in Haywood County. James M. Young was raised on a farm<br \/>\nand well educated. He enlisted in the Confederate Army, Company E., First<br \/>\nTennessee Cavalry, as first lieutenant, and served in that capacity for two<br \/>\nyears and a half, and was in the battles of Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mountain and<br \/>\nMurfreesboro; was twice captured, once in Kentucky, and was held for a while<br \/>\nat Louisville, and then at Murfreesboro, when he was taken to Camp Chase,<br \/>\nOhio, and held for four months, when he was transferred to Fort Delaware, and<br \/>\nwas exchanged a month later, and joined the army at Chattanooga and assisted<br \/>\nin covering the retreat of Johnston from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and in this<br \/>\nretreat was exposed to continual fire for thirty-two days. Mr. Young was<br \/>\nmarried April 5, 1867, to Miss Susan M. Buck, daughter of Henry Buck, a<br \/>\nprominent farmer of Haywood County. She was born in that county in 1850.<br \/>\nThree sons and three daughters were born to this marriage &#8212; five still<br \/>\nliving: Henry G., Horace O., James E., Martha E., Stella May (deceased) and<br \/>\nNellie. Mr. and Mrs. Young are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and<br \/>\nhe is a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/young-james-m\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-young"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}