Ancestry of
Brigham Young

2nd President of the Mormon Church

Joseph Young

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• • Grandfather of Brigham Young — 3rd Generation
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  • 4 
  • Father:
  • William Young 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Cotton   
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  • BY 14 Nov 1769 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Hayden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Aug 1759 
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  • Child:

  John Young (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Young was accidentally killed by a pole falling from a fence.

• Sources for Joseph Young

  • ¹ The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, 1920, Vol. 11, pp. 21-22.
  • ² Howe, Daniel Wait and Gilman Bigelow Howe, Howe Genealogies: This Volume Contains the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1929), 80.
  • ³ Virkus, Frederick Adams, ed., The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: First Families of America: A Genealogical Encyclopedia of the . . ., Chicago: multiple publishers (1925-), Vol. 3, p. 593.