BIO: Younger Newton Herndon is SON of Younger Herndon (1785 VA-1859 KY) & wife, Sarah Ann Wilson (1801 VA-1860 KY), and GRANDSON of PVT Benjamin Herndon (abt. 1760 VA-1814 SC) & wife, Ann "Nancy" Newton (aft. 1763 VA-aft 1830 TN). Younger Newton Herndon is NAMED AFTER his father's maternal uncle, Younger Newton Sr. (1761/63 VA-1847 SC).

BIO: His birth state, via censuses, and their states and places of residence: When Younger Newton Herndon was born in 1836, the Trigg County Court Order had tasked his father with work on the road between Cadiz, Trigg Co KY, and Dover, Stewart Co TN. "Ordered that Alexander Harrall be appointed surveyor of the road leading from Cadiz to Dover ... & hands ... under him: Younger Herrington [sic, Herndon]." They lived back and forth in the border region of Stewart Co TN (1820, 1840) & Trigg Co KY (1850, 1860). The four adult censuses of Younger Newton Herndon all say he was born in Kentucky, while alone the 1850 U.S. Federal Census of Trigg Co KY says he was born in Tennessee. Since it is documented that his father was working for Trigg County in 1836, my best educated surmise is that Younger N. was born in the disputed KY-TN Walker Line border region of Trigg County, which was formally decided in 1859. (REF: Trigg Co KY Court Order Book "A" Vol 7 (1835-1837) by Barbara Smith (1999), page 66 (409) & http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/students/projects/adventurers/walkerline.html.)

CRUCIAL DATA ABOUT BENJAMIN HERNDON, GRANDFATHER OF YOUNGER NEWTON HERNDON: Truly wish we could have heard the ancestral stories told by Younger Newton Herndon, inasmuch as his paternal grandfather, Benjamin Herndon, served in the Revolutionary War between May 1777-Jan 1778, as a private, from Caroline County, Virginia, USA, his identity, residence, and relatives are verified via land transfer documents signed by his Newton in-laws (deeds between 1782 VA-1798 SC, and father-in-law's 1804 SC will). The stories of his service would have been handed down, father to children, and thence to grandchildren. His grandfather Benjamin's REV WAR identification is SAR Patriot #: P-180120 (submitted by grandson # 4434). DAR Ancestor #: A054146 (submitted by 3x G-granddau # 288090). Valley Forge Muster Roll #: VA07343. Authorities: Saffell's, 3rd ed, 1894, p. 275 (& 270); Gwathmey's, 1938, pp. 350 & 372; LVA Acc # 22547. Benjamin first served as a foot soldier and later as a dragoon. In the first unit (between 1 Apr 1777-30 Dec 1777), Benjamin Herndon, of Caroline Co VA, was a Foot Soldier, 2d VA, under Capt Samuel Hawes/Col Alexr Spotswood; Capt James Upshaw/Col Christian Febigar. On Company Pay Rolls 1 Apr-30 Dec 1777. (REF: US Rev War Rolls 1775-1783, VA 2d Regiment 1777-80, folders 48-54, [NARA Roll 96], images 201-217, The Dec 1777 Muster Roll for Company of Capt. James Upshaw; from whence he and five others joined the "Horse Service" which was identified by the Affidavit for Rev War Pension Application by company survivor Obadiah Carter (REF: w8585 at revwarapps.org). In that second unit, the horse unit (from 30 Dec 1777 till discharge aft 1778), Benjamin is listed on Col. George Baylor's 3rd [Regiment of] Continental Light Dragoon's, in the Camp List of 17 Jan 1778, published in "A Return of Armes & Acritrements ... Men Listed in Camp for Col. Baylor's Regt Light Dragoons Jany 17, 1779" [sic, should be 1778]---first man, Benja Herndon, 2d VA Regt, Capt. Upshaw's Compy, living Caroline Co VA." (published in VA Gen Soc Qtrly, Vol. 31, No. 2, p.105; VSLA PersPap Coll Acc #22547; LVA Acc # 22547.) His BAYONET WOUND: Service injury info handed down in family: During Rev War service, Benjamin received a bayonet wound. (REF: Dr. John Goodwin Herndon Collection, #56, LDS FHL SLC, U.S./CAN. Film # 875,138, pages 150-152. ALERT: Contains an error!)

CRUCIAL FATHER INFO: WARNING ABOUT YOUNGER HERNDON, FATHER OF YOUNGER NEWTON HERNDON: Dr. John Goodwin Herndon (JGH) erroneously hypothesized that the given name Younger may have been used in the sense of Junior, and on page 151 of his unpublished info on Benjamin Herndon, # 56, he conflated Benjamin's son Younger with a Philip/Phillip, combining two men and their two wives and two families! There is no such person as Younger Philip Herndon. They are two separate men, both enumerated on the 1840 U.S. Federal Census of Stewart Co TN, on the same page, the eleventh and twenty-first names. Younger was 23 years older than Phillip/Philip. They died 11 years apart, across the state line from each other. Younger's lifespan was 1785 VA-1859 KY (age 74), while Phillip's was 1808 TN-1848 TN (age 40). Neither ever used initials, nor a second given name in any lifetime documents. The mix-up was mere supposition long after they were dead when genealogists were trying to piece the families together. Younger and Phillip may be father and son, but most likely they are uncle and nephew, based on the facts (1) that Philip's first appearance on census was in 1830 Humphreys Co TN, where Younger's brother William owned land in the mid-1820s, (2) while Younger was living across the state line in 1830 Trigg Co TN, and (3) that there was no documented contact between the families when Philip died suddenly after election to a six-year term as Justice of the Peace. If father and son, those facts would be unexpected. Philip's wife was Sarah Hitchcock (she was erroneously enumerated as Hendon in the 1850 Census of Stewart Co TN. REF: 1840 & 1850 Census).

PERTINENT GRANDFATHER DATA: Back to bayonet wound of Benjamin Herndon, the BAYLOR MASSACRE was outcome of the night-time British surprise attack by bayonet, at Old Tappan, Bergen County, New Jersey, on the Baylor Dragoons on the night of 27 Sep 1778, under command of Gen. Charles "No-flint" Grey of Paoli. 15 killed, 54 wounded and/or captured. (REF: https://www.nationalwarmemorial
registry.org/memorials/1778-baylor-massacre-war-memorial/, https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tappan-massacre-new-jersey, and https://visitnj.org/nj-historic-sites-memorials/baylor-massacre-burial-site.)

BIO: Younger Newton Herndon was enumerated in 1840 and 1850 as a child with his parents and siblings:
(REF/1840/Stewart Co TN: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8057/images/4410645_00663?pId=3430309, image 40 of 83;
REF/1850 Trigg Co KY: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8054/images/
4192509_00531?pId=17511100, image 9 of 102.)

BIO: Younger Newton Herndon MARRIED Mary Jane Curry on 4 Nov 1858 in Trigg County, Kentucky, listed as Y. N. Herndon, age 22, and M. J. Curry, age 21. (REF: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H4-12Q.)

BIO: U.S. Federal Censuses of Trigg Co KY (1860-1870-1900) commented on his Education. According to the 1860 Census, Younger, age 24, and his wife Mary, age 23, both were persons above the age of 20 who could not read AND write. The 1870 Census says they cannot read OR write. But the 1880 Census omits any comment that they cannot read or write, suggesting perhaps they had learned in the meantime. However, the 1900 Census says that Younger Newton Herndon cannot read or write, but that his wife can. So it seems he had been short on schooling, perhaps due to aiding his father in essential farm work.

BIO: It is worth noting that Younger N.'s father, Younger, died just 6 months after his son got married (Nov 1858 to May/June 1859). And, by interesting division of enumeration between three dwellings, presumably on the same farm, in 1860, Younger in one (# 914), his wife and baby daughter in one (# 915), and his mother and sister in another (#916), this suggests Younger N. may have retained stewardship of the remaining 25 acres of his father's 1856 land sale of 115 of 140 acres that had been purchased in 1850. Whether it was true or an enumerator mistake, I don't know, since what purpose or benefit would it have served to enumerated them in three different places, but this is how the census taker recorded them.

BIO: Younger Newton Herndon and Mary Jane (Curry) Herndon were parents of three CHILDREN of their own issue, but CLAIMED four:
(1) Arminta Jane Herndon (1859 KY-1936 KY), second wife (of two wives) of Robert Augustus Dawson. SEE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10449075/arminta-jane-dawson.
(2) William Younger "Buddy" Herndon (1862 KY-aft. 1900).
(3) Sidney Grant Herndon (1865 KY- aft 1898), husband of Minta "Mintie" Atkins.
Younger N and wife, Mary Jane, also took in a fourth, claiming him as their own:
(4) adoptee, David Ernest Pear [Parr]/Herndon (1882-)
(REF: Herndons of 1800's Stewart Co., TN : the Herndon disambiguation project for families of Philip and Younger Herndon, Part A, by Rose H. Bonnell, volume 1 of 3, 2011. SEE URL: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/205387/?offset=0#page=224&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=%22younger%20newton%20herndon%22, image 224 of 294.)

POSTERITY: Exact dates for CHILDREN were provided in 1962 by Arminta's daughter, Maggie Lee Dawson Herndon, to grandson Jerry Allen Herndon:
Child 1, Arminta Jane Herndon was born 22 Dec 1859; married 25 Sep 1884; and died 7 June 1936.
Child 2, William Younger "Buddy" Herndon was born 3 Jan 1862.
Child 3, Sidney Grant Herndon was born 23 Jan 1865.
Child 4 ("adoptee"), David Ernest Pear [Parr]/Herndon was born 26 Oct 1882.

POSTERITY: Further research by RHB reveals that CHILD # 3, Sidney G (went by middle name "Grant"), married Minta Atkins on 28 Aug 1896, and they had a son Francis Ulysses Herndon, born 26 Aug 1898, therefore Sidney was still living to sire a child in 1898.

BIO: Enumeration of Younger Newton Herndon, on the U.S. Federal Censuses in Trigg Co KY (years 1860-1870-1880-1900), the four censuses of his adulthood, all list him as head of household with his family, his wife and children, and list his occupation as farmer. (REF/1860: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7667/images/4231208_00123?pId=39546990, image 124 of 185. REF/1870: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7163/images/4269402_00213?pId=22250069, image 7 of 20. REF/1880: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6742/images/4241280-00555?pId=17930719, image 13 of 15.)

BIO: In the additional 1880 (15 Jun 1880) Non-Population [Farm] Schedule, he (as Y. N. Herndon) is listed in Linton Precinct, with 24 acres, a farm value of $15 for farm implements and machinery and $26 for livestock, and a farm production value of $100, (with no hired labor or mules), he had 13 swine, 16 poultry in barnyard, and 50 in other; . (REF/1880-F: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62398/images/i1895598-02943?pId=147401, image 353 of 547, Page 12-A, Line 5.)

BIO: By 1900 (23 Jun 1900), according to enumeration on census, Younger N. Herndon, age 64, and wife, Mary J., age 63, had been married 39 years, owned their own farm without a mortgage, farm # 167, and their unmarried son William Y., age 37, still living with them, also working as a farmer. It says that she was mother [they were parents] of 3 children, all three still living. (REF/1900: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4118940_00803?pId=21840585, image 31 of 41, Page 221-A, Line of 47 of 47-49.)

BIO: Younger Newton Herndon, died 17 March 1904, before the county required formal death certificates.
(REF: Info from Robert Vernon Herndon Family Bible [actually Robert's mother Maggie Lee (Dawson) Herndon's Family Bible], copied by Jerry Allen Herndon on January 3, 1980.)

BIO: Younger Newton Herndon is BURIED in the McKinney Cemetery, Trigg County, Kentucky.
Cemetery is located on private property, in the woods beyond the fence-line, diagonally behind home and yard of M. E. Clinkenbeard, 353 Cliffwood Drive, Cadiz, KY 42211. This small graveyard has about a dozen interments (10 published in 1980, 11 published in 2008). Dr. Jerry Allen Herndon, PhD, remembers visiting this cemetery many years ago, and seeing a carving on a large tree "N. Y. H. 1904" in two lines, initials above, and year placed below the initials. He remembered the transposition of the initials (N. Y. rather than Y. N.) and pondered that.

Judy Maupin [full name Judith Ann Miner / Bergen Beam Maupin (1937-1982)], in her book, "Trigg County [KY] Cemeteries, 1811-1979," (1980), page 181, McKinney Cemetery [#1] recorded that this McKinney Cemetery contains two infant burials, children of David Herndon. That would refer to David D. Herndon, the brother of this Younger Newton Herndon. (REF: See Findagrave Memorials for brother David's children. First child: 228365467 [is merged, absorbing 125786982] & Second child: 49387296 [is merged, absorbing 125786994].)

BIO: Adding merit to the tradition that Younger Newton Herndon was buried near the two children of his brother David, in the McKinney Cemetery, is the fact that this location appears to be a parcel from the 140 acres purchased in 1850 by their father Younger Herndon and the 115 acre portion sold in 1856 by Younger and wife Sarah Ann. Younger Herndon (1785 VA-1859 KY) and his wife, Sarah Ann, possibly Wilson, (1801 VA-1860 KY), were parents of both Younger Newton Herndon, and his older brother David D. Herndon (whose children were buried in this cemetery).

LAND SALE, LIKELY INCLUDING WHAT BECAME THE McKINNEY CEMETERY:
FACT-1: Younger N.'s father, Younger Herndon, bought 140 acres of land on Little River, from Alfred Boyd, for $250.
(REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book J, page 578, instrument dated 13 May 1850, recorded 11 November 1850.) FACT-2: In four years, Younger N.'s father, Younger Herndon, made 4x profit (paid $250, sold for $1000) on majority portion of land on Little River, near Cadiz, Trigg Co, KY. Wondering, what improvements or inflation caused the value to more than quadruple?
(REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book M, page 450, instrument dated 15 May 1856, recorded 15 May 1856.)
FACT-3: In the 1856 land sale, father Younger, excepted acreage (3 acres) near Little River, that was previously deeded by Jacob Torian (in 1822) to Trustees of the Methodist Church (Methodist Episcopal Church South which became Bethel Methodist Church) in Trigg County, KY .
(REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book M, page 450, instrument dated 15 May 1856, recorded 15 May 1856; and info from Trigg Co KY retired PVA officer CFPA.)
FACT-3: By this exception, it seems the Herndon family was possibly either members or sympathizers.)
(REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book M, page 450, instrument dated 15 May 1856, recorded 15 May 1856.)
FACT-4: Deed conveying land from Younger Herndon & Sarah [Ann] Herndon "his wife" of the one part to Chesley D. Lewis of the other part both of Trigg Co KY, selling for $1000, 115 of 140 acres (minus church land) purchased from Alfred Boyd in 13 May 1850 for $250.
(REF: Trigg Co KY Deed Book M, page 450, instrument dated 15 May 1856, recorded 15 May 1856.)

ADDITIONAL LAND FACTS:
Conferring and correlating with courthouse research by retired 33-year Trigg County Property Valuation Administration officer (CFPA), this Herndon-reserved Torian church land is in the vicinity of adjoining land of the current Bethel Methodist Church, within a mile or so. The church land transfer history was from Jacob Torian, in 1822, to Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 3 acres. The surrounding land was sold to Alfred Boyd; then in 1850 Boyd sold to Younger Herndon; then in 1856, Younger & wife Sarah Herndon sold to Chesley D. Lewis; then in 1859 Lewis sold to Richard Wilson. (Didn't continue land tranfer history beyond this point.)