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Confederate Veteran , Vol.XXIV, page 273,
dated, June, 1916.
JOHN CHRISTOPHER YOUNG died at the home of his
son, Dr. J.P. YOUNG, at Richburg, S.C., on March 23, 1916, at the ripe old age
of ninety years. He was born in Laurens Co., near Clinton, Oct.22, 1825 and
was the son of GEORGE and MARY DUCKETT YOUNG. When the call to arms first
sounded, he enlisted in the Secession Guards, Capt. William Perryman's
company, 2d South Carolina Infantry, Kershaw's Brigade. He served 3 years in
Virginia, participating in all the battles fought by his command. He then
joined Capt. Peter Goodwin's 6th South Carolina Cavalry, and in the battle of
Trevilian Station, June 12, 1864, he was sorely wounded, losing his right leg.
He married on May 2, 1867, to MISS SUSAN
VIRGINIA LONG, of Laurens, who died in 1914. Of this union 4 sons and one
daughter survive.
As a citizen with a character pure and true, as
a Confederate soldier with a record equal to the best, as a husband and father
measuring up to all the requirements, and a consistent member of the Baptist
Church, Comrade Young lived a blameless life and has gone to his reward, loved
and respected, leaving another great break in the fast-thinning ranks of the
Confederate veterans.
[ Tribute by Christine Frazier]
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