RUSH FLOYD YOUNG: M. D.
Dr. Young was born on his father's estate, at Mouth of Wilson,
Grayson county, Virginia, on May 4, 1855. He is a son of Col. Wiley
G. Young, and a grandson of William Young, whose father was Timothy
Young, a pioneer settler of Grayson county, coming from Eastern
Virginia. His mother is Elizabeth, daughter of Shadrach Greer,
of Grayson county, whose father, Moses Greer, came to that county
from Pittsylvania county. The father of Dr. Young was lieutenant-colonel
of Virginia militia before the war, and in the Confederate service,
1862-5, in the 8th Virginia Cavalry. Shadrach, elder brother of
Dr. Young, in service in the 53d Virginia regiment, died on Floyd's
retreat from Kanawha Falls. An uncle, Jonathan B. Young, 8th
Virginia Cavalry, was killed in Carter county, Tennessee, in 1864,
and most of the male relatives of Dr. Young, of military age, were
in service.
The wife of Dr. Young is Florence Beattie, daughter of Josiah B.
Cole. She was born on the Cole homestead, in Washington county,
and they were married there, June 5, 1884. The issue of the union
is three children: Neil, Agnes Josephine, and Fannie. Mrs. Young's
father was killed in the service of the South, in the late war, battle
of Morristown, Tennessee. He was a son of James Cole, of Smyth
county, the purchaser of the St. Clair Bottoms. Her mother is Sally,
daughter of Joseph Brown of Smyth county, whose father came from
Germany.
After the usual preliminary education, Dr. Young entered the University
of Virginia, and completed his medical studies in the University
of New York. He has now an extensive practice in and around
Loves Mills.
