When Frances Marion Young was born on 6 December 1846, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, William Alma Young Sr., was 42 and his mother, Leah Holland Smith, was 36. He died on 29 August 1849, in Fort Steele, Carbon, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States.
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The Great Seal of the State of Iowa was created in 1847 and depicts a soldier standing in a wheat field surrounded by symbols including farming, mining, and transportation with the Mississippi River in the background. An eagle overhead bears the state motto.
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
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.
Possible Related NamesJames (Frances) Marion Young, born 6 December, 1846 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa; died 29 August, 1849 by Sweetwater, Wyoming. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial, This is the Pla …
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