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Confederate Veteran , Vol. XXIV, page 273, dated, June, 1916.
 
JOHN CHRISTOPHER YOUNG died at the home of his son, Dr. J.P. YOUNG, at Richburg, S.C., on March 23, 1916, at the ripe old age of ninety years. He was born in Laurens Co., near Clinton, Oct.22, 1825 and was the son of GEORGE and MARY DUCKETT YOUNG. When the call to arms first sounded, he enlisted in the Secession Guards, Capt. William Perryman's company, 2d South Carolina Infantry, Kershaw's Brigade. He served 3 years in Virginia, participating in all the battles fought by his command. He then joined Capt. Peter Goodwin's 6th South Carolina Cavalry, and in the battle of Trevilian Station, June 12, 1864, he was sorely wounded, losing his right leg.
    
He married on May 2, 1867, to MISS SUSAN VIRGINIA LONG, of Laurens, who died in 1914. Of this union 4 sons and one daughter survive.

As a citizen with a character pure and true, as a Confederate soldier with a record equal to the best, as a husband and father measuring up to all the requirements, and a consistent member of the Baptist Church, Comrade Young lived a blameless life and has gone to his reward, loved and respected, leaving another great break in the fast-thinning ranks of the Confederate veterans.
[ Tribute by Christine Frazier]

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