My great great great grandfather
18th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, CSA
The following is from Stompin' Grounds Magazine, Oct/ Nov issue, 2018. A Bartow Ancestors Publication. (Used with permission.):
The area in which men such as Taylor Atkinson, Jim Harris and Zach Young lived, is known as Stamp Creek, in Bartow County, Georgia. In past days, this was an area which became industrialized in the late 1830's, bringing families from mostly the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee. But as the industry grew, men from Russia, Prussia, Bulgaria and such also came to this area to work, mainly around the old town of Etowah, at what's known locally as Cooper's Furnace. Some tough mountain men came out of these hills, and some unique characters.
For forty years Zach Young lived life as a miner, coaler, trader and woodhauler. He hauled hollow ware from the Cooper furnace at Etowah to points elsewhere with a team of eight oxen, trading with merchants until the war began. From there, he served in the 18th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, becoming sick and discharged in 1862. In 1861, he had served at Big Shanty. After the war, he hauled wood, mostly on his own. Zach was devoted to his old time squirrel rifle and was an excellent marksman. He rarely missed a shot, even the squirrels that jumped from tree top to tree top. It was said that his friends were so enamored of his skills that they gave up their own rifles and used rocks instead to throw at the little creatures. Zach Young, even in his sixties, was living in what some would consider a little shack in the Stamp Creek area, hunting and fishing and happy as a man could be. But Zach was getting older, and more frail, and by the early 1900's, was nearly blind, suffered from rheumatism and had vertigo. He received some help from the old Pauper fund which was in place for invalids and the poor. Zach Young died in 1909 and is buried at Macedonia Cemetery.
18th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, CSA
The following is from Stompin' Grounds Magazine, Oct/ Nov issue, 2018. A Bartow Ancestors Publication. (Used with permission.):
The area in which men such as Taylor Atkinson, Jim Harris and Zach Young lived, is known as Stamp Creek, in Bartow County, Georgia. In past days, this was an area which became industrialized in the late 1830's, bringing families from mostly the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee. But as the industry grew, men from Russia, Prussia, Bulgaria and such also came to this area to work, mainly around the old town of Etowah, at what's known locally as Cooper's Furnace. Some tough mountain men came out of these hills, and some unique characters.
For forty years Zach Young lived life as a miner, coaler, trader and woodhauler. He hauled hollow ware from the Cooper furnace at Etowah to points elsewhere with a team of eight oxen, trading with merchants until the war began. From there, he served in the 18th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, becoming sick and discharged in 1862. In 1861, he had served at Big Shanty. After the war, he hauled wood, mostly on his own. Zach was devoted to his old time squirrel rifle and was an excellent marksman. He rarely missed a shot, even the squirrels that jumped from tree top to tree top. It was said that his friends were so enamored of his skills that they gave up their own rifles and used rocks instead to throw at the little creatures. Zach Young, even in his sixties, was living in what some would consider a little shack in the Stamp Creek area, hunting and fishing and happy as a man could be. But Zach was getting older, and more frail, and by the early 1900's, was nearly blind, suffered from rheumatism and had vertigo. He received some help from the old Pauper fund which was in place for invalids and the poor. Zach Young died in 1909 and is buried at Macedonia Cemetery.
My great great great grandfather
18th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, CSA
The following is from Stompin' Grounds Magazine, Oct/ Nov issue, 2018. A Bartow Ancestors Publication. (Used with permission.):
The area in which men such as Taylor Atkinson, Jim Harris and Zach Young lived, is known as Stamp Creek, in Bartow County, Georgia. In past days, this was an area which became industrialized in the late 1830's, bringing families from mostly the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee. But as the industry grew, men from Russia, Prussia, Bulgaria and such also came to this area to work, mainly around the old town of Etowah, at what's known locally as Cooper's Furnace. Some tough mountain men came out of these hills, and some unique characters.
For forty years Zach Young lived life as a miner, coaler, trader and woodhauler. He hauled hollow ware from the Cooper furnace at Etowah to points elsewhere with a team of eight oxen, trading with merchants until the war began. From there, he served in the 18th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, becoming sick and discharged in 1862. In 1861, he had served at Big Shanty. After the war, he hauled wood, mostly on his own. Zach was devoted to his old time squirrel rifle and was an excellent marksman. He rarely missed a shot, even the squirrels that jumped from tree top to tree top. It was said that his friends were so enamored of his skills that they gave up their own rifles and used rocks instead to throw at the little creatures. Zach Young, even in his sixties, was living in what some would consider a little shack in the Stamp Creek area, hunting and fishing and happy as a man could be. But Zach was getting older, and more frail, and by the early 1900's, was nearly blind, suffered from rheumatism and had vertigo. He received some help from the old Pauper fund which was in place for invalids and the poor. Zach Young died in 1909 and is buried at Macedonia Cemetery.
18th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, CSA
The following is from Stompin' Grounds Magazine, Oct/ Nov issue, 2018. A Bartow Ancestors Publication. (Used with permission.):
The area in which men such as Taylor Atkinson, Jim Harris and Zach Young lived, is known as Stamp Creek, in Bartow County, Georgia. In past days, this was an area which became industrialized in the late 1830's, bringing families from mostly the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee. But as the industry grew, men from Russia, Prussia, Bulgaria and such also came to this area to work, mainly around the old town of Etowah, at what's known locally as Cooper's Furnace. Some tough mountain men came out of these hills, and some unique characters.
For forty years Zach Young lived life as a miner, coaler, trader and woodhauler. He hauled hollow ware from the Cooper furnace at Etowah to points elsewhere with a team of eight oxen, trading with merchants until the war began. From there, he served in the 18th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, becoming sick and discharged in 1862. In 1861, he had served at Big Shanty. After the war, he hauled wood, mostly on his own. Zach was devoted to his old time squirrel rifle and was an excellent marksman. He rarely missed a shot, even the squirrels that jumped from tree top to tree top. It was said that his friends were so enamored of his skills that they gave up their own rifles and used rocks instead to throw at the little creatures. Zach Young, even in his sixties, was living in what some would consider a little shack in the Stamp Creek area, hunting and fishing and happy as a man could be. But Zach was getting older, and more frail, and by the early 1900's, was nearly blind, suffered from rheumatism and had vertigo. He received some help from the old Pauper fund which was in place for invalids and the poor. Zach Young died in 1909 and is buried at Macedonia Cemetery.
