Christian John Young

The records for the birth of Lany and the marriage to Christian were

from the records provided from an old "Family Register" in possession

of Mrs Charles Taylor of Evansville, Wis.-a grandaughter of Abraham, a

son of Christian I.) Christian I. Young is said to have originally

owned 200 acres of land in Dutch Settlement. He live there on what

has since been known as the MErritt Crane place. His first house was

probably of logs, and may possible have been the one in which his

daughter Mary, who married Isaac Young began housekeeping. At any

rate, Christian gave the couple the 15 acres of land on which their

log house later stood. He also evidently gave lands to some of his

other children. Christian's second house, still standing (1942) on

the Crane place, is said to be the oldest fram house in the

settlement; probably built about 1825. He came to Onondaga county,

from Schoharie county in 1810, with two brothers, Peter and John J

Young, and John Sommers. Mrs Effie (Weller) Showers, a daughter of

Jeremiah Weller, says Christian (they called him Chris John then)

spent his last days in the home of his daughter, Julia Ann, who

married Peter Young Jr. (Squire Pete). She did not say as to that but

his wife Lana must have lived there also. They had eleven children.

Christian died at Squire Pete's farm about a mile, as the crow flies",

southwest of Clay station in the town of Clay, August 13, 1860. Lana

died in the town of Clay, probably at Squire Pete's, September 10,

1870. Both are buried in Pine Plains. The cemetery record says he

died of consumption, and was 74 years, 3 months old.