Brief Life History of James Laurens
When James Laurens Young was born on 1 December 1847, in Laurens, South Carolina, United States, his father, Rev. James Little Young, was 38 and his mother, Margaret Isabella Todd, was 35. He married Jennie Frances Thompson on 19 July 1869, in Lee, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Election Precinct 19 Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States in 1900 and Plant City, Hillsborough, Florida, United States for about 10 years. He died on 5 November 1928, in Hillsborough, Florida, United States, at the age of 80.
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- James Young, "United States Census, 1900"
- James L. Young, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"
- James Laurens Young, "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939"
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1860
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
1861
Florida has had 6 Constitutions since it became a state. The first Constitution was drafted in Saint Joseph, now known as Port St. Joe. Presently Florida is governed by the Constitution of 1968.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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