Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Spencer Young

Full Name: Spencer Young
Birth date: April 15, 1843
Death date: October 12, 1924

Confederate States Army, Private, Company C, 3rd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, enlisted 6/10/1861 in Montville, Arkansas, at age 18. Spencer Young, U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865; U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com .
Spencer Young, birth date 4/15/1843, death date 10/12/1924, burial in Killeen City Cemetery, Killeen, Bell County. Includes photos, biographical sketch from Killeen: Tale of Two Cities by Gra'Delle Duncan, noting election to the 23rd Legislature from Bell County in 1892; and biographical sketch from Story of Bell County, Texas, Vol. II, describing Confederate Army service in the Battle of the Wilderness and his commission as 1st Lieutenant, Company C, 3rd Regiment of Arkansas. Find a Grave .
23rd Legislature (1893) - S. Young, postoffice Killeen, nativity Mississippi, age 50 (born circa 1843), farmer, stockman, 15 years in Texas, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual .
Obituary, "Spencer Young Dies at Killeen Following Stroke of Paralysis," 10/14/1924, p. 2. "Mr. Young was a member of the Twenty-third legislature of Texas and had served as a county commissioner . . . He was a lieutenant in the Confederate army and was wounded in the battles of Manassas and Gettysburg." Waco News-Tribune .