YOUNG FAMILY HISTORY
Compiled and typed by Sterling king Hixson, 1959.
The name of Young is one of the more common names known to us today. The name comes from several European countries. It has a different spelling in this country. The Germans spell it “Jonge”, as do the people in the Netherlands. Many of the branches of their family throughout the country say they have originated in Scotland and England.
People familiar with genealogy classify the Youngs in Utah as being either connected with Brigham Young or otherwise. Brigham Young’s forefathers came from England. Brigham himself was born in New England. Many families of Young have come from around the state of New York. Ours are connected with those coming from Long Island.
Our earliest known forefather in this line was Ebenezer Russell Young, born on Staten Island, New York, in the year 1786. We know that he married Margaret Lockwood on November 2, 1811, and must have had something to do with shipping as it is recorded that he drowned in Long Island Sound sometime in the year of 1814. The fact that he died so soon after his marriage is the reason he only had one child. He was born after his father died. His birth was November 14, 1814. Margaret Lockwood Young remarried and raised a large family by her second husband.
Ebenezer Jr. married Margaret Holden on May 1, 1836, in New York State. He was a merchant in hardware and evidently was very successful. He raised a large and very fine family of which my grandmother was one of his children. My grandmother King, born Esther Elizabeth Young recalls the two missionaries that came to their home and converted part of the family. The missionaries were John Taylor and an Elder Appleby. John Taylor was with the Prophet Joseph Smith at the time he was martyred in the Carthage Prison (jail) and later became president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints himself. These two elders married two of the daughters of Ebenezer Jr., which probably cause the whole family to join the Church. This marriage of John Taylor to Margaret Young resulted in President Taylor being my mother’s uncle, making the President being my great uncle.
Ebenezer Jr. as the result of these important changes in his life sold all his belongings and prepared to move to Utah. He brought what food and hardware he could with him and arrived here in Utah sometime in the 1850’s. He proved his ability as a good merchant by establishing three hardware stores in this area. One was in Salt Lake of First South Street between Main and State. I believe the store was just west of the Federal Reserve Bank building. The second store was opened in the Sugar House district and finally he built his third one in Wanship, Utah. The family prospered and was very active in community life and in the Church. Ebenezer Jr. was bishop of the Wanship ward for many years. My grandfather Hixson was a counselor to him also.
Esther Elizabeth Young, my grandmother, married Leander Henry King on April 12th, 1866. This coupled had but one child who was my mother, Mary Edith. Her history along with more about her mother will appear in my own family history along with that of the Hixson’s. Ebenezer Jr. died at Wanship on November 23, 1890. His wife preceded him in death by five years. Many of the family have died and others have scattered throughout the West. Some still reside in Wanship. Ebenezer Jr. bought a burial lot in the Salt Lake City Cemetery but never used it. He and his wife are buried in the Wanship Cemetery. President John Taylor and some of his family used the lot and my grandmother King is buried there. At the present time, the remaining Young’s and some of the Taylor descendents are attempting to seek where Ebenezer Sr. parents came from, and it is believed that in due time a lead will be established as much micro filming is being done in England making thousands of records available for our use. The features of this family indicated they no doubt came from Scotland or England.
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