Frances Young

(1809-1851)

At a Glance

Frances Young was the mother of Burwell student Nannie Taylor Speed .

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Frances Young was born on May 3, 1809. She died on March 22, 1851, and was buried in Speed-Taylor-Young-Renuart Cemetery in Oxford, NC. Frances Young died March 22, 1851 and was buried at the Speed-Taylor-Young-Renuart Cemetery at the Thomas Henry Speed I home located on the west side of Cannady Mill Road, 10 miles south of Oxford on the Tar River [1].

Relatives

• Parent: Ann Taylor Young.
• Spouse: Edward Speed (1808-1859), married from April 1, 1830 to March 22, 1851. Edward Speed and Frances Young married on April 1, 1830.
  Children:
  
  • two sons, Joseph H. Speed (b. 1834) and Edward Speed, [Jr.] (b. 1842).
  • five daughters, Virginia F. Speed (b. 1832), Nannie Taylor Speed (1836-1909) , Susan Speed, Mary Speed (b. 1840) and Sarah Jane Speed (1844-1844).
• Others: Elizabeth H. Mangum (granddaughter, 1861-1957), Frances Wade Mangum (granddaughter, b. 1863), Lillian Augusta Mangum (granddaughter, 1859-1925), Mary Grace Mangum (granddaughter, 1869-1926), Nannie Speed Mangum (granddaughter, 1866-1957) and Addison Goodloe Mangum, [Jr.] (grandson, 1868-1930).

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).