Joseph YOUNGS

                   OCCUPATION:
    Blacksmith & Farmer
NOTES:
    1. Was in the Whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania, as Col or Major of New Jersey Troops.





Was in the Whiskey Insurrection in PA either as a Colonel or Major of the NJ Troops.  After his death his widow  had a house in Morristown and her dtrs Delia and Joanna lived with her.  Delia stated that her uncle, John Youngs did not do right in setteling her Grandfathers, (Joseph's) estate.
All info in this family from sheets given to me and that info is from Grover Youngs Bible.
Served in the Revolutionary War.

article from Confederate Veteran mag., dated Sept. 1919, page 331-32.

THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN HOME OF MISSOURI
by Maj. Harvey Salmon of St. Louis, in 1918.
" Realizing how little the people of our State knew the work of the institution has done and is doing. I think it may be of interest to present something about the Confederate Home , its past and its present.
[ article is too long to post all of it but will hit the high lights]...
The Home was incorporated about 30 years ago. We then began the collection of money. At its first treasurer I distinctly remember the first money received , $3. The committee selected and purchased the GROVE YOUNG tract of land, 365 acres, about one mile from Higginsville, in Lafayette Co. The Daughters of the Confederacy raised $18,000...$5,000 donated by citizens. Past years has been $64,117.20 per annum by the board.
The Home has a steam-heating plant, an ice plant, electric lights, water system, hospital, laundry, and dairy, which a fine herd of Holstein cows which furnish an abundance of rich milk.
There now are 73 acres of corn, 30 acres of wheat, 22 acres of oats, 35 acres of red clover, etc. There are 11 acres of potatoes, chicken farm, over 1000 spring chickens.
In July, 1917, 237 men and 52 women in the Home, average age 77 years. 33 helpless veterans in the hospital, and 567 has passed 'over the river', and their bodies laid to rest in the beautiful , well kept cemetery. Col. GEORGE P. GROSS is superintendent and his wife is marton.
----The Main building is still standing today as a Historic site and the cemetery is well kept ?