Birth: Nov. 12, 1817 in Jessamine County, Kentucky
Death: Jan. 10, 1875 Colfax, Clinton County, Indiana
Spouse: Nancy Young - ID 74571329 married in 1839
Biography: from Portrait & Biographical Record, Clinton County, Indiana by A. W. Bowen & Co.: "George P. Young was born on the twelfth day of November 1817, in Jessamine County, Kentucky. When he was about nine years old he lost his father, and was left to care for himself. He was, however, possessed of a large amount of courage and went to the field at meager wages. At this time slave labor was about the only kind of labor known in Kentucky, but he continued to work beside the black man until he was possessed of sufficient judgment to become an overseer, to which business he was called while a young man and continued to follow for several years. He was married to Nancy Lancaster of Jessamine County, Kentucky, on the eleventh day of April 1839. To this marriage were born five children, viz: Mary E. S., William H., Decalvius K., John L. and George E., all of whom are now living. In religion he was a Methodist and his wife a Baptist in belief. He moved with his family to Clinton County, Indiana, and located on a farm about two and one-half miles northwest of Colfax, on the twenty-third day of September 1852. Here he lived and reared his family, and here he died on the tenth day of January 1875."
Birth: Nov. 12, 1817 in Jessamine County, Kentucky
Death: Jan. 10, 1875 Colfax, Clinton County, Indiana
Spouse: Nancy Young - ID 74571329 married in 1839
Biography: from Portrait & Biographical Record, Clinton County, Indiana by A. W. Bowen & Co.: "George P. Young was born on the twelfth day of November 1817, in Jessamine County, Kentucky. When he was about nine years old he lost his father, and was left to care for himself. He was, however, possessed of a large amount of courage and went to the field at meager wages. At this time slave labor was about the only kind of labor known in Kentucky, but he continued to work beside the black man until he was possessed of sufficient judgment to become an overseer, to which business he was called while a young man and continued to follow for several years. He was married to Nancy Lancaster of Jessamine County, Kentucky, on the eleventh day of April 1839. To this marriage were born five children, viz: Mary E. S., William H., Decalvius K., John L. and George E., all of whom are now living. In religion he was a Methodist and his wife a Baptist in belief. He moved with his family to Clinton County, Indiana, and located on a farm about two and one-half miles northwest of Colfax, on the twenty-third day of September 1852. Here he lived and reared his family, and here he died on the tenth day of January 1875."
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