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John Henry Young

1804 – 1864

Birth1804
Death1864
CemeteryPatton Cemetery
Pyatt , Marion County , Arkansas , USA
Added byDeLories Robinson-Vaughn on 07 Oct 2011
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114373241

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Census: 1850 Marion Co., Ark Census: 1860 Blythe, Marion Co., Ark. Father: James YOUNG Mother: Rhoda HUDSON Marriage: 1 Elizabeth Ann BULLINGTON b: 13 SEP 1807 in Sandy River, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Married: ABT. 1829 in Jackson Co., Tennessee Children: 1. Sarah Ellen YOUNG b: 8 OCT 1831 in Jackson Co., Tennessee 2. Elisa June YOUNG b: ABT. 1832 in Jackson, Tennessee 3. Elisa Jane YOUNG b: 1832 in Jackson Co., Tennessee 4. Rhoda Hudson YOUNG b: 1832 in Jackson Co., Tennessee 5. James Thomas YOUNG b: 1835 in Jackson Co., Tennessee 6. Elizabeth Ann YOUNG b: 1836 in Jackson Co., Tennessee 7. William Henry YOUNG b: 1838 in Jackson Co., Tennessee 8. Robert Jason YOUNG b: 25 FEB 1840 in Jackson Co., Tennessee 9. Francis Marion YOUNG b: 1842 in Arkansas 10. George Washington YOUNG b: 12 APR 1847 in Dardanelle, Yell Co., Arkansas 11. Eli Jackson YOUNG b: 1848 in Marion Co., Arkansas 12. Joshua Michael YOUNG b: 1849 in Marion Co., Arkansas 13. Mary L. YOUNG b: ABT. 1853 in Blythe, Marion Co., Ark. Another place for the death states Near Powell,(Pyatt), Marion Co., AR. John Henry and his wife Elizabeth came to Crooked Creek AR in 1850. PURSUED BY A BUFFALO CALF There was a time in the state of Arkansas when buffalo were plentiful but they were gradually reduced in numbers by the early hunters until they were all killed or driven out. An amusing story was told by Mr. John Young and Mrs. Elizabeth Young, his wife, who lived in Yell County, Ark., from 1843 to 1850 when they moved to Crooked Creek in what is now Boone County, Ark. They said there were a few buffalo in Yell County while they lived there and the hunters would kill one occasionally before they were entirely exterminated. Mr. Young and his wife said that a little incident occurred in his neighborhood While he lived in Yell County that is too interesting to be lost. They said that one morning in 1844 a man who was not a renowned hunter and who was afraid of wild beast and buffalo in particular went out with gun in hand to hunt for a deer, when he spied a buffalo cow with a fine calf following her which was only a short distance from his cabin. The calf was nearly a year old. The man concluded that he would shoot the cow and procure help and capture the calf and raise it for a pet. He worked his way carefully until he was in gun shot range of the cow and shot her down. The calf appeared to have some knowledge that its mother had been killed and it stood and looked at her a few moment's as she lay broadside on the ground dead. When all at once it seemed to be overcome with anger and turned its head around and saw the slayer of its mother standing where he had shot from and leaving its dead mother and ran toward the hunter for a fight. The man was struck with terror and turned and fled toward his hut. The calf's temper was boiling over with rage and it soon over took the fast retreating hunter and gave him a hard jolt with its head. The man sped on as fast as he could run. The calf pursued and kept right along just behind him and butted him severely. The race was exciting and those witnessing it could not refrain from slapping their hands together and laughing loud. The frightened hunter tried his best to outrun the calf but in vain. The enraged little beast stayed at his heels and jolted the discomfitted man with its head at every opportunity. The terrified man cleared several yard's of space at each bound, and yelled every time he struck the ground, "Buf- buf- buffalo. Buf- buf- buffalo after me. Help - help-help - or it will butt me to death." The fleeing man kept up this noise with the young buffalo immediately in his rear until he reached the doorway of his domicile and darted in and the calf stopped and turned around and ran back to its dead mother. John Henry Young received 100 acres on 31 October 1839, Mountain District Grant #7424. This was located on Blackburn's Fork of the Roaring River in Jackson County Tennessee.

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