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Young William M. 42 1808 Saddler NC s/o Col. Thomas Young

Julia A. 32 1818 KY Julia A. DeMoss m. Wm. M. 11/19/1846 Hop. Co.

James C. 18 1832 KY

Thomas R. 13 1837 KY

Mary 10 1840 KY

Martha W. 10 1840 KY

Elizabeth J. 6 1844 KY

Zeno F. 2 1848 KY Zeno F. m. Annie Morgan 06/1873 Muhlenburg Co. Ky

DeMoss Nancy 23 1827 KY Sister - Nancy m. David A. Bondurant 03/31/1867 

Hop. Co.



(The DeMoss sisters, Nancy "Nannie" and Julia Ann (also seen spelled as 

Jewleyan), were daughters of John DeMoss & Sarah Barker of Hopkins Co., KY)



Confederate spies so cruelly treated William Martin Young  during the Civil 

War because he entertained Federal officers on a mission, that his friends 

hid him out in a cabin in the canebrakes so that for months on end his 

family did not know whether he was dead or alive. This finally drove his 

son, Zeno Fenn, to enter the Union army, in which he acted as a courier, 

and was mustered out at Louisville in 1865 at 17 years of age.



William Martin, as a citizen of Madisonville between 1855-1885, was elected 

justice of the peace and county judge for several terms. Of these justices, 

W. E. Dodd says that they were the backbone of the pre-war South, of high 

social repute, and political bosses in their respective communities. He 

also owned a harness and saddle shop in the palmy horse and buggy days, and 

his wife Julie became the first business woman in the town, for she ran a 

millinery shop in which she kept two orphan kinswomen as apprentices.



For two decades after the war Judge William Martin Young, John G. Morton, 

banker, and Zeno Fenn Young, editor, ruled Hopkins county. It was a 

powerful triumvirate, more often at odds among themselves than not, but 

this strictly family aristocracy kept the county on an even keel of 

conservative politics and economics so that it recuperated from the wounds 

of war and prospered.



William Martin Young attained a competence in his lifetime but never became 

a man of wealth, though he had social position in his community. He lived 

easy, as he took his politics lightly, and while John G. Morton was piling 

up dollars in banking, he followed the hounds on the fox trail in the 

hickory flats, kept some classy hunters, and one suspects was not avers to 

attending an occasional cock fight. On the other hand, he was noted for 

sobriety and was an elder in his church, though not quite so seriously as 

his neighbor John G. Morton. For all that, they were fast friends and held 

a high mutual respect and regard for each other. What Madisonville and 

Hopkins county are, they molded and made it. In Judge William Martin Young 

we have the human side of his Eastern ancestry-a running together of the 

variant sides of his English lineage.



His eldest son, Zeno Fenn Young, returned from the war to go into and found 

the first newspaper in Madisonville.

    ( Above notes from The Bristol Youngs in America by Walter Jorgensen Young)