Birth: 24 March 1874 Mitchell, North Carolina, USA
Father: William Young 1842-1920
Mother: Harriett Ledford 1844-1883
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 12 November 1899
Husband: Mary Ann Conley 1874-1968
Death: 22 January 1927 Boonford, Snow Creek, Mitchell, North Carolina
Buried: Lily (Lillie, Lilly) Branch Cemetery, Wing, Mitchell, North Carolina.
Ruby Ola Young 1903-1919
Samuel Gayle Young 1905-1981
Daphne Young [McCall] 1908-1998
Willie Mae Young [Thomas] 1907-b1998
Mursetis Young [Hyatt] 1911-2007
Herbert Young 1914-1965
John McDonald Young 1914-1994
Retta Joanne Young [Grove] 1914-2007
Robert Lloyd Young 1916-2005
Jeter Conley Young 1918-2006
Dorothy Ruth Young [Gentry] 1920-2017
His two brothers were born 6 December 1867 and 8 September 1878 in Mitchell, North Carolina.
In the 1880 census as Mcdaniel Young aged 6, born in North Carolina, and living with his parents (William and Harriett), four brothers (Joseph, Martin, M W, and Samuel), sister (Mattie) and a cousin (Emma Fortner) in Snow Creek, Mitchell, North Carolina.
His mother died on 29 August 1883 in Mitchell, North Carolina, and his father married Phoebe Minerva Ledford circa 1885.
He married Mary Ann Conley on 12 November 1899.
In the 1900 census as David M Young aged 26, born in North Carolina, parents born in North Carlina, a mica dealer, married for 0 years, and boarding with his wife (Mary A) with Thomas Young (uncle), his wife (Harriet M), four cousins (Edward D, Lattie R, Julia A and Clyde D Young), and another boarder (Manning W Young (brother?)) in Crabtree, Yancey, North Carolina.
His brother Manning Willoughby Young died in 1902 in Yancy, North Carolina and left all his household furniture and twenty dollars to his beloved brother D M Young.
His daughter was born 4 September 1903 in Mitchell, North Carolina, son in 1906, daughter 3 April 1907 in Boonford, Mitchell, North Carolina, and another daughter on 12 November 1909 in Mitchell, North Carolina.
In the 1910 census as D M Young aged 35, born in North Carolina, parents born in North Carolina, a mica dealer (buying and selling), married for 10 years, and living with his wife (Mary), son (Samuel G) and three daughters (Daphne, Ruby O and Willie May) on his own farm free of mortgage in Peak Road, Snow Creek, Mitchell, North Carolina.
His two daughters were born 22 January 1911, about 1912, son and daughter on 3 July 1914, and two sons on 27 May 1916, and 18 May 1918.
Entry in Ancestry U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 for David Mackdaniel (sic) Young born 24 March 1874, residence Mitchell County, North Carolina in 1917, stout build, medium heihjt, black hair, gray eyes, relative Mary Young, and a mica buyer for Asheville Mica Company, Boonford, North Carolina.
In the 1920 census as Mash D Young aged 45, born in North Carolina, parents born in North Carolina, a farmer working on his own account, and living with his wife (Mary Ann), five sons (Geter, Herbert Boren, John Mcdonal, Robert Lloyd, and Samuel Gale) and five daughters (Daphne, Mursetis, Ruby Ola, Rettie Fern and Willie May) on his own farm free of mortgage in Peak Road, Snow Creek, Mitchell, North Carolina.
His daughter was born in 1920.
Entry in Ancestry North Carolina, U.S., Death Indexes, 1908-2004 for David M Young died 22 January 1927 aged 52 in Mitchell.
Entry in Ancestry North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976 and in North Carolina, U.S., Deaths, 1906-1930 for David Mc Danial (sic) Young born 24 March 1874 in Mitchell, North Carolina, parents William Young and Harriel (sic) Ledford both born in Mitchell, North Carolina, a mica buyer, spouse Mary Conley, on 22 January 1927 in Snow Creek, Boonford, Mitchell, North Carolina by suicide (wound through the heart) and buried 23 January 1927 at Lillie Branch.
Entry in Find A Grave for David McDaniel Young born 24 March 1874 in Mitchell, North Carolina, father William Young, spouse Mary Ann Conley Young, children Ruby Ola, Willie Mae Thomas, Jeter Conley and Dorothy Ruth Gentry, died 22 January 1927 in Ledger, Mitchell, North Carolina, and buried in Lilly Branch Cemetery, Wing, Mitchell, North Carolina. "David McDaniel/Young/ Mar. 24. 1874/Jan. 22. 1927./His Wife/Mary Ann/Young/Feb. 18. 1874/Feb. 10. 1968". Mother Harriet C Ledford (c1842), sister to Phoebe Ledford Young, burial unknown. "Big Crowd Attends Rites for Mac Young. Spruce Pine, Jan 24th. -(AP0- What is said to have been the largest crowd ever assembled for a funeral in Mitchell county attended the last rites Sunday afternoon at Lillie Branch cemetery near Boonford for Mac Young, prominent business man of this place, who killed himself at his old home in Boonford Saturday. Between 1,200 and 1,500 persons were present although no announcement had been made in advance of the hour for the service.The family had planned a quiet service but so many friends assembled to pay their last respect to Mr Young's memory that the full rites had to be held at the grave."
There are one hundred fifty three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for David McDaniel Young.
Boonford on the borders of Yancey and Mitchell was home to a number of feldspar and mica mines, but now is a ghost town vitually demolished since the post office closed in 1951.
David McDaniel Young was the grandfather of Robert L McCall, husband of Dilys Averil Treharne, my second cousin once removed.
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