My great great grandmother, Henrietta, was the last child of Otha and Mary Jane "Polly" Doss Tharp and was 1 year old when her father died. Her mother then married John Davis in 1859, when she was about 3 years old. She was about 6 years old when the War of Northern Aggression began.

She married William Norton Young on April 7, 1871 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi. The following children were born in Houston, Chickasaw, Mississippi and are listed in the 1880 census there:

James Noah Young - Great Grandfather
William Love Young
Miles Ealon Young
Dollie Ann Young Yarbrough

They probably moved to Milam Co. Texas at about the same time as her mother, Polly Doss Tharp Davis, around 1881 to 1882. The following children were born there:

Veldimer Jack Young- died at age 8 months
Jasper Claude Young
Katye Beulah "Kitty" Young Sheppard
Cordye Bell Young Ward
Vera Pearl "Texie" Young Bryant Herren
James Monroe Young
William Dewey Young.

She died in 1943 at the age of 87.

FUNERAL SET AT NOLANVILLE FOR
CONOLY PIONEER

Belton, Aug. 31 – Mrs. Henrietta
Ellen Young, 87, died in a
Austin hospital Tuesday at 11:45
a.m. after a lingering illness. Funeral
services will be held Wednesday
at 4 p.m. at the Nolanville
church, with burial in Pleasant Hill
cemetery at Nolanville, Phillips and
Luckey of Belton in charge.
Mrs. Young had lived in the
Conoly community near Thorndale for
the past 40 years. She was a member
of the Christian church. Her husband
died in 1928.
Surviving are eight children:
Elon Young of San Antonio; Mrs.
R. T. Yarbrough, Thorndale; Claude
Young, Florence; Mrs. A. R. Gregory,
Thorndale; Mrs. Jodie Campbell,
Granger, Monroe Young
Thorndale; W. D. Young, Thorndale;
and a daughter residing in California.