Jr. Henry YOUNGER

Henry married Mary DEATS on 11 May 1837 in Bullitt Co., KY. Mary (daughter of John DEATS and Anna SHAIN) was born in 1815; died in 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Sally HOSKINGS on 15 Sep 1852 in Nelson Co, Kentucky. Sally was born about 1825; died about 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Dona Wilson Johnson, Sally, Richard's stepmother who raised him, left him the family farm when she died in 1900. In 1904, he sold the farm and moved the family to Nebraska. Stella remembered that when Richard moved the family ,he sold all of her grandmother's beautiful Haviland China among other things. Stella always refered to the farm as her grandmother's plantation. She said they had slaves who stayed with them even after they were freed in 1865.

Richard married Massa BROOKS on 24 Dec 1867. Massa died on 12 May 1869. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Nancy Ann STRAUGHAN on 16 Feb 1871. Nancy (daughter of Moses STRAUGHAN and Catharine Elizabeth WISEHART) was born on 2 Aug 1852 in Jefferson Co., KY; died on 10 Sep 1937 in Martinez, CA; was buried in Stamford Cemetery plot 258; Stamford, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Fred PLUMB in Apr 1990. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Kitty married George CASH on 18 Feb 1891 in Deatsville, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She left Henry Clay Deats when Effie was quite young. According to Dad (Rex Lewis) she said he was abusive, Uncle Jack remembers being told that Henry Clay was an alcoholic.

After the girls were grown she was a traveling saleswoman, selling silk scarves. E.A. Schafer was also a traveling salesman,they met since they had the same territory. They bought a car together and traveled together after that. After Henry
Clay died, Lillian and E. A. married, but it seems that Lillian still used the name Mrs Deats. Except with her grandchildren, to them she insisted on being called Mama Deats since she, like her daughter Effie didn't want to be called
"grandma".

According to Mom (Ina Wolfe Lewis), Mama Deats was so predjuced that she wouldn't even walk past a black person's house. She would go out of her way to walk down another street.

When Lillian died, E.A. Schafer had her buried in the plot with her parents.

This cemetery is one mile north of Hwy 89 in Stamford, Nebraska in Harlan County. Just turn north on Main Street in Stamford. There are no signs for at the cemetery.

Sarah married Henry Clay DEATS on 14 Jan 1897 in Deatsville, KY, and was divorced about 1902. Henry (son of Richard William DEATS and Mary Ann SHAWLER) was born on 25 Apr 1855 in Rail Road Junction, Kentucky; died on 25 Sep 1932 in Lincoln, NE; was buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, NE, Lot 1084, space #3. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elmer Adam Schafer. Elmer was born on 31 Jul 1887 in Martel, Nebraska; died on 17 Dec 1954 in Oxford, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Logan COFFEE. Thomas was born on 26 Nov 1857 in Columbus, Colorado County, Texas; died on 12 Jul 1928 in White Deer, Carson Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1900 Nelson Co. census gives her name as Nannie Lee Younger born Aug. 1880.

Her sister Kate's bible lists her birthday as August 23, 1879.

Her sister Lillian's notes list her birthday as August 24, 1879.

Nancy married Roy COOPER in 1905. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His sister Lillian's notes list his birth as Sept. 23, 1881.

Hia sister Kate wrote in her bible Sept. 24, 1881.

The 1900 Nelson Co. KY census lists Sept. 1882, farm labor.



One evidently older gravestone (I have a picture of his parents by his grave with Lillian and her daughters.) lists his birth as Sept. 23, 1882.

The current grave marker ,I understand , lists his birth as 1881.

Notes:

Moved to Pacific Grove in 1949.

Stella married Earl Bishop WILSON on 6 Apr 1909 in Crown King, AZ (near Prescott). Earl (son of James WILSON and Dora) was born on 13 Sep 1880 in Mecosta, Michigan; died on 19 Oct 1951 in Monterey, CA; was buried in El Carmelo cemetery, Pacific Grove, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

no children

Stanford married Stella about 1910 in Stamford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Their previous address listed on their stationary return address was P.O. Box No. 22, Roberts Idaho.

Ora had a twin brother who was stillborn.



According to Dona Wilson Johnson, Ora's neice: " (Ora and Oscar) were on their way to visit old friends, the Gates, in Roberts, ID. They lived in Roberts, ID for about 20 years where Oscar managed the Gates Lumber Yard. They followed Stella
and Earl Wilson to Martinez, CA , where they lived until Ora died. Oscar had an "Associated" gas station and Ora ran a lunch and breakfast counter next door. (Dona) remembers their house. It was made out of dark brown logs. They had a brisk
business there during the Second World War. After the war they sold their business and took the trip to Idaho mentioned above. After Ora's death, Oscar remarried and moved to Fresno, CA where he ran a small grocery store until his death in
1954. He and Ora are buried together in Berkeley, CA. They had no children.

Ora married Oscar W. JOHNSON in Mar 1911 in Stamford, NE. Oscar (son of C.F. JOHNSON and Clara) was born in 1910 in Sweden; was buried in Berkeley, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dick and his brother Harry were partners in Holdrege, NE meat market at one time, but it went bankrupt.

Family/Spouse: Dora COOPER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dorthy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harry married Mabel Anne JANSEN on 20 Apr 1917. Mabel (daughter of Frederick (Fritz) JANSEN and Doris KOOP (COPE?)) was born in 1898 in near Stamford, NE; died in 1958 in Pasadena, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Once, Juanita offered to take her cousin Effie's son Rex Owen Lewis and raise him. At first Effie said yes, but later changed her mind.

Rex always regretted not being able to go with Juanita, but at the same time, he resented that his mother had even considered the idea.

Family/Spouse: Lynn Atkinson BROPHY. Lynn was born on 12 Aug 1898 in Nebraska; died on 12 Jun 1981. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Effie married Leslie Owen (Skeet) LEWIS on 21 Jan 1917 in Oxford, NE, and was divorced in 1941. Leslie (son of Thomas Jefferson LEWIS and Carrie WINTERMUTE) was born on 31 Dec 1896 in Gosper Co., NE; died on 26 Feb 1969 in Oakland, CA; was buried in Memory Gardens, Concord, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Effie married Cecil Redverse RILLSTONE on 5 Feb 1944 in KS. Cecil was born on 23 Nov 1906 in Michigan; died on 11 Oct 1963; was buried in Parkview Memorial, Detroit, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Kenneth says he lived in some sort of religious mission in Colorado. Dona Wilson Johnson says it was The Navigators in Colorado Springs 1959-1965.

James married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ida M. McPherson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was the California Attorney General under Ronald Reagan for 8 years. He ran for governor of California in 1978 against Jerry Brown Jr. He lost and retired from politics. He died in his sleep at his home in the Hollywood Hills on May
4, 1989 from arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

He was an only child.

Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Wednesday, September 17, 2008, Page 7

PERSPECTIVES (Column)

Evelle J. Younger: Related to Wild West Outlaws and to Nation?s Founding Fathers
By ROGER M. GRACE
Seventy-First in a Series



EVELLE J. YOUNGER, as district attorney, had a practice of personally interviewing would-be deputies who had made it through the initial vetting. One young hopeful who had passed the bar exam only four month earlier met with the DA in October, 1965. He was Curt Livesay?destined to become a legend in the office, but unknowing at that point whether he would make the grade or be told, ?Don?t call us, we?ll call you.?

As Livesay recounts it, at the end of the questioning, Younger queried:

?Have I failed to ask you something that, if you were in my place, you would want to know??

Livesay, speaking to me by phone from his ranch in eastern Oklahoma, says he proceeded to confess that he had some relatives who had been convicted of brewing moonshine.

That revelation, Livesay might have thought, doomed his chances of being hired. Not so. The district attorney, doubtlessly amused, put him at ease by inquiring: ?Have you ever heard of the Younger Brothers??

Younger??Mr. Law and Order??revealed he was a decedent of those fabled outlaws of the old west.

The stage coach- and bank-robbing Younger Brothers were Cole (their leader), Jim, John, and Bob; they teamed with the James Brothers, Jesse and his half-brother, Frank. The James-Younger Gang rode from a period starting shortly after the Civil War and ending in 1876 after the Younger Brothers (sans John who died in 1874) were apprehended after attempting a bank robbery.

In conducting a bit of genealogical research, I not only confirmed ties to the Younger Brothers but came across Evelle Younger?s unheralded links with other historical figures who were, decidedly, ?good guys.?



Resources show that a common progenitor of Younger and of the bandits was Joshua Logan Younger (born 1755). He was the father of, among other offspring, Charles Lee Younger (1779) and Henry Younger (1772).

Charles Lee Younger was the grandfather of the Younger Brothers.

Henry Younger was the great-great-grandfather of Evelle J. Younger.

In figuring relations: a child of your aunt and uncle is, of course, a cousin?in particular, a first cousin. That cousin?s descendents, no matter how far down the line, will all be first cousins to you, but the child of your cousin will be a ?first cousin once removed,? a grandchild will be a ?first cousin twice removed,? etc. Your cousin?s child and your own child will be second cousins; your grandchild and your cousin?s grandchild will be third cousins, and so on. On a family tree, where cousins are on the same horizontal plane (same generation), they?re first, second, third cousins, and so forth, while any diagonal relationships entail a ?removed? status.

So, starting with Henry Younger and going forward in time: his son, also named Henry, was the first cousin of the outlaws? father, Henry Washington Lee; Henry Jr.?s son Richard was the Younger Brothers? second cousin; his son Harry was a second cousin once removed; and his son Evelle was a second cousin twice removed.



While journalists are keen about making sure of their facts before reporting anything, I confess that I can?t be altogether certain of the following. That?s because genealogical information going back into the 18th Century is largely based not on official records of any sort, but letters, diaries, and the like. Families typically were large owing to the lack of?well, I don?t need to spell it out?making it all the more difficult to keep track of births. Philandering was common, with doubts existing sometimes, from the standpoint of history, not as to who a child?s father was, but as to the identity of the mother. In short, data is incomplete and conflicting.

Subject to that disclaimer, it does appear that the aforementioned Joshua Younger was married to the former Elizabeth Lee, and that she was the daughter of Richard Henry Lee, a founding father of our nation. It was he who made the motion on June 7, 1776, as a member of the Second Continental Congress, to declare independence from Great Britain. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and later served as a U.S. senator from Virginia. That would mean he was the great-great-great-great grandfather of Evelle Younger?signifying that Richard Henry Lee?s brother?Francis Lightfoot Lee, also a signer of the Declaration of Independence?was the future DA?s great-great-great-great granduncle. (Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot also had an ancestor in common with Joshua Logan Younger, and were Evelle Younger?s first cousins 15 times removed.)

Evelle Younger was also, it seems, related to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Richard Henry Lee had a first cousin, Henry Lee II. So?his son, Henry Lee III?known as ?Light Horse Harry? for his activities as a cavalry officer in the Revolutionary War?was a second cousin of Joshua Younger; Henry Lee II?s son, the man who surrendered to Grant at Appomattox was third cousin of Henry Younger Sr.; and Lee was a third cousin four times removed from Younger.

There?s more.



Evelle Younger was a distant relative of outlaws other than the Younger Brothers. He was a fifth cousin 10 times removed to Texas train robber Sam Bass; a ninth cousin twice removed to Jesse James; a fifth cousin seven times removed to Butch Cassidy; and a seventh cousin once removed to John Wesley Hardin.

Speaking of outlaws, someone accused of perjury and obstruction of justice was President Bill Clinton. Richard Henry Lee was first cousin of Anneke Jane Edwards, great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother of Clinton. Evelle Younger was a seventh cousin twice removed to Clinton.

President Zackary Taylor was Evelle Younger?s third cousin 14 times removed, as was President William Henry Harrison; the latter?s grandson, President Benjamin Harrison, was a fifth cousin 12 times removed. Getting into really remote relationships: President John Kennedy was a seventh cousin 10 times removed, and President Lyndon B. Johnson was an eighth cousin 10 times removed.

Kin also included author Mark Twain (third cousin six times removed); newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst (second cousin, 12 times removed); blind author Helen Keller (third cousin six times removed); and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (third cousin 10 times removed).



I recently quoted District Attorney Steve Cooley as explaining the kinship of his wife, Jana, to Evelle Younger: her father was attorney Kenneth Younger, a cousin of Evelle Younger.

I?ve found that their common relative was Richard Younger, Evelle Younger?s grandfather. He had two sons: Richard Emeal Younger and Henry Clive Younger. Richard Emeal Younger?s son was Kenneth Cooper Younger (born March 22, 1922 in Stamford, Nebraska); Henry C. Younger?s son was Evelle J. Younger (born June 19, 1918 in Stamford, Nebraska). Ken and Evelle Younger were first cousins, making Jana Cooley a first cousin once removed to Evelle Younger.

Cooley notes that his late father-in-law ?and Evelle grew up in, I think it was Funk, Nebraska.?

He wasn?t sure of the name?but, yes, there is a Funk, Nebraska. It?s a miniscule village which comprises less than one-third of a square mile.

Continuing his account of Evelle and Kenneth Younger, the district attorney says:

?They both were in the service in World War II, and after coming out to California during their service time, they decided to locate here. I think Evelle came first, and then Ken joined him later.?

Evelle Younger was admitted to practice here in July, 1946, and Kenneth Younger in January, 1951.

Cooley says that there is a vague awareness in the legal community of a relationship to Evelle Younger, but that ?a lot of people thought that Jana was maybe Evelle?s daughter.?



We?ll have to assume that the ?Younger Cousins??whose proclivities were quite the opposite of those of the Younger Brothers?did spend time in Funk, Nebraska. After all, nobody would falsely claim to have haled from there.

However, the 1930 Census shows that by the time young Evelle was 11, he resided with his parents in Hastings, Neb., a short distance east of Funk?and comprising 10 square miles?two-and-a-half times the size of Beverly Hills, but with somewhat lower population. Here?s the census entry from a page listing denizens of Hastings:



Evelle Younger?s continued residency there is reflected by various newspaper articles appearing in Nebraska during his student years, largely comprised of renditions of his athletic feats, but covering other matters.

The April 19, 1931 issue of the Lincoln Star relates:

?Four Hastings people, two of them Boy Scouts enroute to Lincoln to attend the Scout Circus, escaped serious injury, it is believed, when their light coupe overturned eight miles west of Lincoln?.

?Evelle Younger, 13, son of Mrs. H.C. Younger, the driver, was the most severely injured. He suffered a brain concussion and body lacerations and bruises.?

The Nebraska State Journal?s edition of Feb. 20, 1937, reports:

?Evelle Younger of Hastings, Neb., a student at the University of Nebraska where he is majoring in journalism, has received word of his appointment to the United States Naval academy by Congressman Charles G. Binderup.

?He has been directed to report at Annapolis June 10.

?Younger, 18 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Younger of Hastings, was informed his college credits have been accepted by the academy so that it will not be necessary to take entrance examinations.

?After being graduated in 1934 from Hastings high school where he was prominent in athletics and extra-curricular activities, he attended Hastings college for two years. He transferred last fall to the University of Nebraska?.?

An article on June 27, 1937 in the Sunday Journal and Star confirms: ?Paul Jorgensen of Wilcox and Evelle Younger of Hastings were admitted to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis June 15.?

As it turned out, Younger did not pursue studies at Annapolis, instead returning to the University of Nebraska. His son, former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eric Younger, says he did not learn of the appointment to the Naval Academy until after his father?s death, relating that he thinks that his father?s departure from Annapolis had to do with ?some kind of color blindness.? He notes the condition did not impede his father in his military career in other branches. (Evelle Younger started out in the Army as a private and worked his way up to the rank of major general in the Air Force Reserve.)

The Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star?s March 13. 1938 edition carries a photo of Evelle Younger sporting a top hat, draped in a high-buttoned cloak like that worn by an undertaker, adorned with a thick mustache, and clasping a whip. The caption explains: ?Right out of Uncle Tom?s Cabin stepped Simon Legree in the person of Evelle Younger, Hastings.? No, he wasn?t in a student production; a fraternity staged a ?story book ball,? a variation on costume parties, with quartettes of students each dressed as characters from a novel.



FOOTNOTE: The Younger Brothers on Sept. 7, 1876, attempted to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota. During that event, the cashier was fatally shot. The three were apprehended following a week-long pursuit, and on Nov. 21 of that year, they pled guilty to first degree murder and were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Widespread glorification of them as Old West desperados whose deeds reflected adventure and pluck led to repeated efforts to gain freedom for them through pardon or parole?though in fact, they were career criminals, thieves and slayers, who rated the death penalty. On July 14, 1901, Thomas Coleman ?Cole? Younger and James Younger were released on parole, Robert having died in prison.

James subsequently committed suicide in 1902.

And Cole? He and Frank James?who had been acquitted in 1881 of armed robbery and in 1902 of the only killing for which he was ever been tried?teamed together in a wild west show.

Evelle married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]