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Accession #MU2018/71
TopicYoung, S. S.: Historical Family Collection,
TitleThe Simon S. Young Collection
LocationSanctum, Unit #6, in small cream-colored box. Scanned photographs can be located on archives' network location by searching for MU2018_71.
CitationThe Simon S. Young Collection, MU2018/71, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.
AccessResearchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials.
ProvenanceFrom the estate of Ruth marie Andersen Arnold, granddaughter of Simon S. Young. THe collection was brought to the archives by Ruth's daughters, Anita Pease and Rebecca Turner (great granddaughters of S. S. Young.
Scope and Content

Marriage license of Simon S. Young and Nettie Buck.

Three childhood photographs of the Young sisters, Lulu Rae Young (the older) and Lela Ruth Young. These photographs were scanned.

Photograph of Simon Young and Catherine (Sprankle) Young, parents of Simon S. Young and E. S. Young. The picture was scanned.

Photograph of Simon Young and Nettie (Buck) Young in 1885, the year that they were married (scanned).

Photograph of Simon Young and Nettie Young later in their lives.

Two autograph books belonging to S. S. Young and to Nettie Buck during their time as students at Mount Morris College with inscriptions written to one another (circa 1882, 1883).

1898 photograph of the E. S. Young and Nettie (Buck) Young family home in North Manchester.  This is another copy of a photo already in existence, but this picture is in excellent condition.  Both copies have a diagonal line going through the image.  Included in the picture are: sisters, Lulu Rae and Lela Ruth - Nettie's parents, Henry Buck and Eliza (Beck) Buck - Nettie's sisters, including Minnie Mae (Buck) Sherrick {holding Paul Henry Sherrick, 1st son in the Henry Buck family}, Miriam Gertrude (Buck), also known as "Mida" who married Calvin Ulrey (1900).

Letter written by 7 year old Lela Ruth to her maternal grandmother at the time of Lela's father's death. S. S. Young died on 23 December of 1900. His family was living with S. S.'s parents at the time. 

Family history book, "History of Christian and Catherine Buck and Their Descendants,"  see pages 27 forward for the Henry Buck family history.  

Family history book, "The Young Family History," see pages 49, 58 - 60.

Obituary and photograph of Ruth Arnold, daughter of Lela Ruth and Granddaughter of S. S. Young.

Obituary and photograph of Lulu Rae Young, daughter of Nettie and S. S. Young.

Childhood photograph of the great granddaughters of S. S. Young, Anita Marie Arnold and Rebecca Sue Arnold (1958).

Young adult photograph of Lela Ruth Young, daughter of S. S. and Nettie Young.

Two booklets commemorating the lives of Simon and Nettie. "In Loving Memory, Simon S. Young, 1862-1900," "In Loving Memory, Nettie Jane Buck Young Hughes, 1865-1945."

Book that had been on the uncatalogued book shelves in the archives was added to the Buck collection on 31 March 2019. The book belonged to Nettie Buck, wife of S. S. Young. It has some writing within:

Jan. 17, 1882, Nettie {?} Buck, Nannie Buck, Polo Ill - Went south in 1883? - Worlds Fair Chicago in 1893, S. S. in Chicago 1900 (Sunday School probably) - other notes scattered throughout book.....


Date of Accession22 July 2018
Bio History Note


Nettie Buck is the wife of S. S. Young.

Nettie (Buck) Young is the mother of Lulu RaeYoung and Lela Ruth Young.

Lela Ruth (Young) Anderson is the grandmother of AnitaPease and Rebecca Turner.

Lela’s daughter, Ruth Marie (Andersen) Arnold, is themother of Anita Pease and Rebecca Turner.


Nettie (Buck) Young is the great-grandmother ofAnita Pease and Rebecca Turner.  S. S. Young is their great-grandfather.


S. S. Young is the brother of E. S. Young, first Churchof the Brethren president of Manchester College. S. S. Young served as thebusiness manager for the institution.


Henry Buck married Mary Rohrer who died in 1861. Sarah Ida Buck was a child from that marriage.  Sarah Ida Buck married Rev.J. J. Emmert.  They had 2 children, one of which was Mary Ellen, who marriedRev. W. B. Stover (1894). They sailed to India as the first missionariessponsored by the Church of the Brethren.


Henry's second wife was Eliza Beck.  They had sixdaughters: Nettie Jane (wife of S. S. Young) - Nancy Emeline Buck, who marriedRev. W. C. Teeter - Minnie Mae Buck, who married Rev. M. M. Sherrick - MiriamGertrude Buck ("Mida") who married Calvin Ulrey - Luella Grace Buck(who worked at Oppenheim's in North Manchester) - Lucy Webb Hayes Buck, whomarried E. C. Miller, an evangelist (Lucy was named in honor or PresidentHayes' wife who banished the use of wine at the White house during presidency.



Archivist NoteDescription prepared 22 July 2018 by Jeanine Wine and updated 31 March 2019 by Jeanine Wine.
 


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