http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Sun, 09 Jul 2017 19:25:14 +0000 Owen Beeler...grt.grt.grandson.to Owen b cecil [Visitor] c11065@http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/ I really enjoyed this article...i am tracking my heritage.overton young .brother in law to Owen benetic cecil.death 1860 sandy point tx.trying to find out how died. which brozoria cty.library should I start with ??? Thank You http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/2009/12/20/overton-young-a-son-of-the-old-south#c11065 Mon, 28 Mar 2016 04:25:25 +0000 Adam E. Young [Visitor] c3885@http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/ Interesting, he is my great great grandfather as well! http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/2009/12/20/overton-young-a-son-of-the-old-south#c3885 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 15:23:11 +0000 Joanne Young [Visitor] c132@http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/ wow amazing he is my great great grandfather. Thanks for the history. http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/2009/12/20/overton-young-a-son-of-the-old-south#c132 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:41:32 +0000 admin [Member] c98@http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/ I just want to add the comment here that news writers often mistake Brazoria County as being "Brazos County." The obituary most probably should have stated "Brazoria County," not Brazos County (Bryan and College Station area). http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/2009/12/20/overton-young-a-son-of-the-old-south#c98 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:38:33 +0000 Lynna Kay Shuffield [Visitor] c60@http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/ Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Galveston Co., TX), Mon., 24 Sep 1877, p. 8, c. 4 == Another Veteran Gone == The remains of Col. Overton Young, of Brazos county, were buried with military honors by the military organization of this city, Tuesday, 18th inst. Col. Young was 54 years of age, native of Georgia, a lawyer by profession, and for 26 years was an honored citizen of this State. During the late war, he commanded the 8th Texas regiment, and received a painful wound in the battle of Mansfield. His death was caused by an absess of the brain. He was in this city for the purpose of being treated for his malady when the "king of terrors overtook him." http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/2009/12/20/overton-young-a-son-of-the-old-south#c60 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:01:58 +0000 Bruce Allardice [Visitor] c59@http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/ Col. Young is buried in Galveston's Catholic Cemetery, in an unmarked grave. See "Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables," a book I co-authored. http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/2009/12/20/overton-young-a-son-of-the-old-south#c59 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:08:40 +0000 Ronald W. Crockett [Visitor] c41@http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/ Overton Young and Ann Compton Young had a daughter Ina also. She was born in Dec. 1865. She married William Rufus Nash and their ranch is north of West Columbia. Their daughter Kitty Nash married Browning Groce. Kitty Nash Groce left her large ranch to her cousins for their life and it has now reverted to the Espiscopal Church at West Columbia and also a Medical facility in West Columbia. Their daughter Dora married Frank Brown Weeks. William and Ina built a beautiful large city house at 217 (now 215 Westmoreland in Houston. For a number of years, Dora and Frank Weeks also lived with them until they built their house 3410 Burlington in the same Westmoreland Additon. William Rufus Nash was the son of a Brazoria County merchant, Edward Nash, and his wife Catherine Cooke. Edward Nash died in October 1860 in Brooklyn New York soon after the birth of William R. in April of 1860. On May 6, 1872 Catherine Cooke Nash, married her brother-in-law John Adriance, who was a very successful merchant, planter, and state representative in Brazoria County. His wife, Lydia Ann Cooke, who was Catherine's sister had died in 1871. William Nash was 12 years old when he mother remarried. In the 1880 census Ina and Dora were in Beaumont with their half sister Lelia Manadue, Valade. They were 13 and 10 and going to school in Beaumont. Dora married Sydney Albert Long, a very successful lumber man as her first husband. He died about 1900 and she married Frank Brown Weeks about 1901 http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/2009/12/20/overton-young-a-son-of-the-old-south#c41 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:08:10 +0000 Kimberly [Visitor] c3@http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/ Given the prominence of the man, why do you suppose the burial site is unknown and has not been found? What was the standard practice of the time concerning burials? Why was his wife not buried beside him; was that not the practice at the time? http://history.brazoriaresearch.com/2009/12/20/overton-young-a-son-of-the-old-south#c3