GENERATION 9 – HENDRIK LEWIS DE JONG>DEYOUNG AND E. NEIL WILLIAMS Hendrik (Henry) DeYoung was the second oldest son of Harry and Ida DeYoung.  After he graduated from high school he went into the army during World War I. Below is a picture of Henry in a hop field before he went into the service Next is a picture of Henry with his friend Arnie Pearson in their uniforms. John DeYoung’s son Milford is the young boy in the picture. Next is a picture of Henry with some of his friends who are also going into the service.  His brother Ben is holding Milford and his brother John is in the front row on the far right. After the service

GENERATION 9 – HANS JOHN DE JONG>DEYOUNG AND SARYELEN PRIEST Their oldest son John (my grandfather) married Ellen Priest in 1918. She had moved to Kent (via LaBam, Washington) from Arkansas about 1911 or 1912.  Here is their wedding picture in 1913. They had 6 children: John Milford “Milford” (1914), Anna Frances “Frances” (1916), William Lowell “Lowell” (1920), Robert Taylor “Bob” (1924), James Henry “Jim” (1928), and my Father Frederick Allison “Al” (1929). Below is a picture taken in 1922 of the John DeYoung Family. The Back row is Anna Frances DeYoung Gasslander and John Milford DeYoung. The middle row is Hans John DeYoung and Ellen Priest DeYoung.  William Lowell DeYoung is in the front. On the right is a picture

SUSANNAH “SUSAN” AND PLEASANT MCCOY, UNKNOWN, WILLIAM HUTSON, FRANCIS COLLINS Susannah (Susan), the oldest girl was born in 1849. She was very interesting. She had four illegitimate children. First was a daughter named Victoria in 1873. Pleasant McCoy her first cousin was the father. Victoria died the next year. Then in the 1880 census Susan is single and living with two more illegitimate daughters Wilda (1875) and Rosa (1879) next door (in 1880 geographical terms) to John and Mahala. I do not know who the father was. However, when I was in Kentucky I found several court case that sheds some light on Susan’s life. August Court 1876 Commonwealth of Kentucky Susan Priest Against Henry Beckelhammer Charge Bastardy Ordered that

SARYELEN PRIEST AND JOHN DEYOUNG My paternal grandmother’s name was Saryelen Priest. She must have hated the name Sary or Sarah, so she went by Ellen. In fact, it wasn’t until after she died and I started my research that any of us knew her real first name was Saryelen. My Aunt Anna Frances thought her first name was Sarah because her tombstone says S. Ellen DeYoung. Saryelen “Ellen” Priest was born in 1893 in Golden, Missouri which is right across the Missouri-Arkansas border from where she grew up in Green Forest, Arkansas which is in the Ozarks. After she left home she went by Ellen. Both sides of Ellen’s family fought in the Revolutionary War. After the Civil Way

ABNER JAMES DIVORCE PAPERS ELIZABETH MCVEY Abner James Plff VS Petition in Equity Elizabeth James Deft Filed May 4, 1855 The plaintiff Abner James states that in the year of 1854 he intermarried with the defendant Elizabeth McVey now James and that he was desiourious to live with her in the fidelity of a husband, but ? peace, harmony, and concord in every thing relating to his duty toward her as a husband. He states that she was the Mother of 5 children when he married her and he had one which he took with him when he married a girl of tender years. He states that she soon became ill and unmanageable and ? ? any woman he was

Note: Samuel James was Mahala James’ Father and Pernina Dean James was her Mother. Samuel died when Mahala was six. Abner James was her step-brother and was appointed her guardian when she was sixteen. He is listed as her Father on her marriage license to John Priest. Mahala James was Monterville Priest’s Mother and Ellen Priest DeYoung’s Grandmother.   Mountain Kinsmen Ride A Story of the James Family By Henry P. Scalf 1956   Talk to the two old ladies and they turn the pages of Eastern Kentucky history for you. One will attain in four months four score and ten, the other approaches the century mark. Mrs. Miranda Caroline McCoy, 94 of Crum, W. Va., and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth

Edward Dean Edward Dean my sixth great grandfather was born about 1720 probably in Henrico County, Virginia. He married Rebecca Abney about 1740 probably in Henrico County. General Abney consensus is that Rebecca was the daughter of Abraham Abney and Cassandra Meredith (see the discussion about two paragraphs down in italics). Edward must have been a wonderful person. In the pension application of Joshua Dean, C. B. Turner talks about how “Joshua Dean’s father raised his father (an orphan) and that his father died and left him and his mother in the care of the Deans”. It must have been difficult to take in another mouth with at least six children of your own to feed. Then Joshua continued to

William Lowell DeYOUNG One of Woodinville’s most influential longtime citizens, died peacefully at Evergreen Hospital on February 3rd, 2009. He was 88. Born May 6, 1920, to John and Ellen DeYoung in Kent, Lowell moved with his family to Woodinville in 1925. He was the third of six DeYoung children. Older siblings Milford and Anna Francis, Lowell, and younger brothers Bob, Jim, and Al were all active children and hard workers in the Woodinville community. Lowell graduated from Bothell High School in 1938 and married his class mate, Stella Pascoe, on November 26, 1942. In 1944, he opened Lowell DeYoung Company, which grew into a large animal feed manufacturing company with retail and delivery services throughout the area. DeYoung’s Farm

James was born January 16, 1928 in Houghton, WA and passed away Sunday, September 18, 2005 at Evergreen Hospice in Kirkland. Jim is survived by Dorothy DeYoung of Mill Creek, his beloved wife of 59 years, his daughters Terri DeYoung of Seattle and Diana (Robert) Mee of Everett. He is also survived by his brothers; Lowell (Stella), Al (Donna), and sister Anna Frances Gasslander of Woodinville and Robert (Barbara) of Edmonds. Also many nieces and nephews, all of whom note his passing with great sorrow. Jim graduated from Bothell High School in 1946 and served in the US Army Military Police stationed to protect the Nuclear Reactor site at Hanford, WA. After discharge, he and Dorothy worked for GE at