My Genealogy Hound

William R. Young, like others mentioned in the present volume, an energetic planter of Lucas Township, was born in Crenshaw County, Ala., May 10, 1856, and is a son of Richard W. Young, who dates his existence from 1842, in South Carolina. He now resides in Mississippi. Richard W. Young was married to Miss Susan Clyburn, who was reared in South Carolina, where she was also born about 1845; she is living at Huntsville, Ala. They are the parents of twelve children, of whom ten survive, and of these William R. is the second child. When the latter was but eleven years old his parents moved from South Carolina to Huntsville, Ala., where he received his education. He commenced life for himself at about seventeen years of age, working for wages in a store and on a farm, and was married December 7, 1886, to Miss Willie Holloway, born in Madison County, Miss., October 15, 1866, and brought up in De Soto County. She is a daughter of J. L. Holloway. [See sketch.] Mr. and Mrs. Young have one child. They moved from De Soto County to where they now live in 1885. Mr. Young cultivates 450 acres of land, on which he usually raises from 200 to 250 bales of cotton annually, requiring eighteen mules to do the work. His wife is an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Young has been a Democrat since casting his first vote for Tilden; he is an enterprising and energetic business man, and deserves much praise for his untiring efforts to make things comfortable for himself and his neighbors.