Hello  On 5-24-98 I sent a message requesting information on JOSEPH
WHITNER YOUNG (J.W.).  So far I have not received a reply, however, in
the meantime I made a short trip to the Easley/Pickens area.  My trip
was quite rewarding but I did not prove who J.W. Young's father was.
J.W. Young was born  25 June 1849, out of wedlock to Sarah Young,
daughter of Steven and Rebecca Porter Young.  J.W. Young had a sister
Eliza A. Young born out of wedlock on 9 Aug 1847.  E.B Mosley pleaded
guilty to the charge of bastardy and was ordered to provide maintainance
for the child on 2 April 1850.  Since the boy was not mentioned in the
charge in my untrained mind this means he was not the father of J.W.  Am
I wrong?  Was there a rule that there only needed to be one charge per
family?? Since I have been working on this project I have had the notion
that his name is a clue to his parentage.  There was a family of
Whitner's (Joseph Whitner to be exact)in the area but I have not found
them in the 1840's or 50's in Pickens county.  Sarah did have a brother
Joseph but I have not seen his middle name, he had a son Joseph Walton
Young who moved to Arkansas.  This rather involved but if anyone can
help solve the mystery it would be greatly appreciated.

Lelia

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