Ancestry of
Steve Young

NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback

John Young

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Steve Young — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 76 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Young 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Hayden   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Mar 1763 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Oct 1839 
  • Death Location:
  • Quincy, Adams, Illinois 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail "Nabby" Howe
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Oct 1786 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Young

  Brigham Young (Ahnentafel No:38 )

• Additional marriages for John Young

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Brown
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1817

• Sources for John Young

  • ¹ LDS Pioneer and Handcart Companies, 1847-1856, Record for son Brigham Young.
  • ² The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, 1920, Vol. 11, pp. 22-23.
  • ³ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR#75499, Membership application for Lorenzo Snow Young.
  • ⁴ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #75498, Membership application for Henry Free Young.
  • ⁵ Estabrook, William Booth, Genealogy of the Estabrook Family: Including the Esterbrook and Easterbrooks, in the United States, Ithaca, New York: Andrus and Church (1891), 131.
  • ⁶ 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), 80-81.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Brigham Young", (accessed 09/27/2015).

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