Robert Lincoln YOUNG ¹

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  General Notes:

Persifer is near Galesburg.

Robert Lincoln Young was a very successful farmer. He had several farms
and co-signed on several others. When the depression came, he lost all.
All Robert Lincoln Young had left was a gold watch and a gold headed
cane. His grandson, Robert Louis Young remembered his grandfather quite
well as a real gentleman who went in town every day to be shaved but
never quite recouped his fortune.

Note: By working hard, his son, Harold Ewart Young and Harold's wife
Sara retrieved the homestead. Besides both working hard, Sara also
played the stock market and commodities market and managed the finances.
She did very well in the markets which was part of how the homestead was
retrieved.

Robert Young was 59, born in Ohio, a farmer whose father was born in
Germany and his mother was born in New Jersey, per the 1880 Federal
Census. Living in his household in 1880, was his wife Mary F. Young, age
54, born in Ohio, keeping house, her father was born in New Jersey, and
her mother was born in England. Living in their household was his son
Robert L. Young, age 16, a farmer, and born in Illinois. His parents
were listed as both born in Ohio. Also, living there was a nephew Albert
Young, single, age 22, born in Ohio and working as a farm hand. Albert's
parents were both born in Ohio. Emma B. Andrew was living in the
household, 18 years old, single, born in Illinois, attending school, and
her father was born in Ohio and her mother was in Virginia.

When her grandparents died, Margaret Young Rice and her husband Rory Rice
bought her Grandparents Young's farm, all in tact with the pictures on
the wall, the furniture, the records, dishes, etc. Many picures and
records about the Youngs and about Hannah and Edward Johnston and their
children were in this house.

References: (1) Data about Hannah Fowler Rusling and Edward Campbell
Johnston's daughter, Mary Fowler Johnston who married Robert Young, and
Mary and Robert's descendants was provided by Mary Fowler Johnston
Young's great-great granddaughter, Margaret Laurene Young Rice. (2) 1880
Federal Census for Persifer Township, Knox County, Illinois, on the
computer web site from Latter Day Saints' Family History Library Film
1254220, NA Film Number T9-0220, Page 316D. Read in October, 2002.

Robert married Emma Elizabeth ENGLAND on 17 Sep 1890 in Knoxville, Illinois.