Amaziah Young
Amaziah Young was born around 1821 in Indiana to Ira and Elizabeth Young. His father was a farmer. He married a woman named Mary on August 27, 1840, in Ripley County, Indiana. They had at least four children: George, born around 1841; Rebecca, born around 1844; Elizabeth, born around 1851; and Rachel, born around 1855. They lived in Otter Creek, Indiana, and Young worked as a farmer. By 1850, he owned $600 of real estate. In 1860, he was living in his brother Ira’s household in Otter Creek, while his family was living in Brown, Indiana.
 
Young enlisted in the Union army on October 15, 1861, and he mustered in as a private in Company A of the 37th Indiana Infantry later that day. He was discharged for disability in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1863. Young returned to Indiana after leaving the army. By 1870, he and his family were living in Shelby, Indiana. Young was working as a farmer, and by 1870, he owned $4,500 of real estate and $500 of personal property. He and Mary got divorced sometime in the 1870s. By 1880, he was living in his daughter Rachel’s household in Johnson, Indiana. He applied for a federal pension in April 1884 and eventually secured one. He died on September 27, 1906, in Ripley County.
1982
DATABASE CONTENT
(1982)Young, Amaziah18211906-09-27
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 23

  • (6320) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 19 July 18XX
  • (6321) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young et al., 31 May 1861
  • (6323) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young and Mary Young, 11 July 1861
  • (6325) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young et al., 13 July 1861
  • (6326) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young and Mary Young, 2 August 1861
  • (6333) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 8 August 1861
  • (6335) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 15 August 1861
  • (6336) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 18 August 1861
  • (6371) [associated with] ~ George W. Young to Mary Young, 11 August 1862
  • (6377) [associated with] ~ George W. Young to Mary Young, 28 November 1862
  • (6386) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young and Mary Young, 13 December 1862
  • (6387) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young and Mary Young, 9 January 1863
  • (6388) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young and Mary Young, 26 January 1863
  • (6397) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 3 June 1863
  • (6401) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 5 August 1863
  • (6409) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 27 August 1863
  • (6412) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young and Mary Young, 27 September 1863
  • (6430) [writer] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 16 June 1861
  • (6431) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 5 July 1861
  • (6432) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young and Mary Young, 25 July 1861
  • (6433) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 27 August 1861
  • (6437) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, undated
  • (6438) [recipient] ~ George W. Young to Amaziah Young, 22 August 1861

People - Records: 6

  • (1982) Young, Amaziah is the [parent of] (1981) Young, George W.
  • (1983) Young, Mary is the [wife of] (1982) Young, Amaziah
  • (1984) Young, Elizabeth Caroline is the [child of] (1982) Young, Amaziah
  • (1985) Young, Rachel is the [child of] (1982) Young, Amaziah
  • (1990) Young, Rebecca B. is the [child of] (1982) Young, Amaziah
  • (2019) Young, Henry H. is the [sibling of] (1982) Young, Amaziah

Places - Records: 2

  • (379) [birth] ~ Indiana
  • (1554) [death] ~ Ripley County, Indiana

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (613) [enlisted] [A] ~ 37th Indiana Infantry
SOURCES

1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Indiana Marriage Index, 1806-1861, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Database Index, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Indiana Marriage Index, 1800-1941, available from Ancestry.com; General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, available from Ancestry.com; Indiana Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999, available from Ancestry.com.