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Young's Ferry House

The "Young's Ferry House" is located on the south bank of the Green River in Warren County Kentucky near Richardsville. It sits at the end of "Young's Ferry" Road which runs off of the Threlkel Ferry Road in Richardsville, Kentucky. A reference is made to "S. W. Young" location along this site on an 1877 map. <1> This was the home of Samuel Watt Young (Aug. 4, 1815 - Sep 4, 1891). <2>The house was built "before 1861". Samuel Watt Young ran the ferry for forty years (about 1851 - 1891).

After Samuel Young's death in 1891, his wife bought out the interest of Mary Jane Young Hill, the daughter by Samuel Young's first wife. The property then stayed in the possession of Catherine Young until 1912. Catherine Young ran the ferry until 1912 when her heirs sold the ferry to Jesse Smith in 1912.

REFERENCES

1∧ Map Of Warren County, Kentucky, 1877 by D G Beers & Co, Philadelphia. (Library Of Congress, Map Of Warren County, Kentucky (www.loc.gov/item/2012593103/)

2∧ Young Family genealogy records. Records of Nora Young Ferguson filed at the Kentucky Building, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. (Manuscripts & Folklife Archives)