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WILLIAM L. YOUNG
One of San Joaquin County’s
progressive and enterprising ranchers, William L. Young was born in Hopkins
County, Kentucky, on June 24, 1859. The
Young family was pioneers of the state of Kentucky where Grandfather Young
owned a plantation. William L. Young was
able to attend the public schools until he was twelve years of age when his
father died and his mother removed to California with her three children,
William, Burris and Helen, arriving in December of 1871, after the experience
of being snowbound in Cheyenne for some time.
The family made their home with Mrs. M. E. Bryant, a sister of Mrs.
Young, a California pioneer of 1852 who settled about four miles northeast of
Lockeford on the north side of the river.
Mrs. Young later married James L. Christian, a farmer north of Staples
Ferry on the Mokelumne River, who owned a half-section of land. Mr. Christian passed away in 1885 and the
mother survived him until 1888. William
L. Young continued to run the home place until four years after his mother’s
demise, when he purchased 120 acres one mile south of Lockeford known as the
old Brakeman place. This ranch was
devoted to grain, but Mr. Young set forty acres to grapes, it being the second
vineyard in this district. About 1915 he
pulled them all out, much to his regret today.
This ranch has a well 365 feet deep, which is sufficient for irrigating
the entire ranch.
On July 4, 1888, occurred the
marriage of Mr. Young, which united him with Miss Caroline Louise Sheridan, a
daughter of Frank and Isabella (Epperly) Sheridan, and they are the parents of
three children: J. Lilbern
is married and has one son, J. Lilbern, Jr., and
resides in Stockton where he is employed with the Union Oil Company; Burris E.;
Anita is now Mrs. Clyde Hamsher and she has two
children, Millard Clyde, and De Ette Caroline. Mr. Young has served his locality as school
trustee for ten years. Politically he is
a Democrat and for the past thirty-five years has been identified with the Odd
Fellows and is past grand of Progressive Lodge; both he and his wife are
members of the Rebekahs and Mrs. Young is a past noble grand of that
organization.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
764-767. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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