Brown Family Tree - Person Sheet
Brown Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameElizabeth Young , GGGG Grandmother, F
Birth Date12 Oct 1786
Birth PlaceSomerset County, PA
Death Date15 Mar 1869 Age: 82
Death PlaceLavansville, Somerset County, PA
Memoor 15 Mar 1869
Burial PlaceLavansville Lutheran Church Cemetery, Somerset County, PA
ReligionReformed
FatherLudwig (Ludwick) Jung (Young) II , M (1753-1835)
MotherCatherina Barbara Barron , F (1761-1825)
Spouses
1Michael Hay , GGGG Grandfather, M
Birth Date21 Feb 1775
Birth PlaceHay's Church, Somerset County, PA
Death Date30 Sep 1840 Age: 65
Death PlaceLavansville, Somerset County, PA
Burial PlaceLavansville Lutheran Church Cemetery, Somerset County, PA
ReligionReformed
FatherSimon (Johannas) Hay , M (1742-1842)
Marr Date27 Aug 1802
Marr PlaceSomerset, PA
ChildrenDaniel Adam , M (1807-1872)
 Simon , M (1818-1902)
Notes for Elizabeth Young

Other sources indicate she was born on March 15, 1787 and died April 20, 1868.
Notes for Michael (Spouse 1)
Simon Hay, one of the pioneers of this county, was born in Germany in 1742. He emigrated to America in 1763, and settled in Brother’s Valley, where he died in 1841. He built a gristmill and a large fish-pond where Baker’s mill now is. The names of his children were: Jacob, Michael, George, Peter, Valentine, Elizabeth (Weller), Catharine (Miller) and Susan (Baker). 

George, who was born in this township in 1782, was a farmer and manufacture. He died in 1845. He married Mary Countryman, and was the father of Simon, living; Benjamin, deceased; John and William, living; George, deceased; Harry, living; Herman, Jacob, Elizabeth (Hoyman) and Harriet (Shoemaker), deceased; Mary A. (Braugher), living. 

Simon, born in 1807, succeeded his father on the farm. He is still living with his son, Benjamin, to whom he sold the property in 1882. Benjamin served in the late war in Co. F, 142d regt. Penn. Vols.; was taken prisoner at Gettysburg; wounded at Gettysburg, Hatcher’s Run and Five Forks. 

(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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