Rees Young

    Rees Young, a  prominent citizen of Hart Township, was born near Chillicothe, Ohio, November 27, 1822, the fifth in a family of six children born to the marriage of Samuel Young and Sarah Violet.

    When our subject was a baby his parents settled permanently in Clermont County, where the father engaged in coopering and farming until his death, about the year 1830. About this time Rees went to live with a neighbor, continuing with him until his sixteenth year, when he made his home with a brother-in-law until twenty years old. He was raised to hard labor on the farm, and only secured a limited education. After he attained majority he learned the cooper's trade, which together with farming was his occupation until the spring of 1855, when he came to Warrick County, Indiana, which has since been his home. He has farmed and worked at the cooper's trade here with reasonable success, and is the present owner of a valuable residence and other property.

    October 14, 1846, he untied in marriage with Miss Catharine Dailey, of Ohio, and nine children have been born to their union, these yet living: Sarah R., the wife of J. U. Rice; James William, Charles M., Rees A., and Ulysses G.

    In 1862 Mr. Young responded to his country's call, and from that time until the close of the war bravely defended his country's honor in Company E, Sixty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, participating in numerous hard fought and hotly contested battles, and in some of the principal campaigns of the Rebellion, and for over forty years he and wife have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.