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Surnames: Young, Cagle, Risener
Classification: Query
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Actually, Christian Risener was a nephew of Charlotte Young Risener and a first cousin of
Charlotte's husband Thomas, not their son. Christian was the son of George Risener
(Thomas' uncle) and a daughter of Peter Young (Charlotte's sister.) Thomas and
Charlotte's youngest son was James Christian Risener, my great-grandfather, and he
never lived in Izard County.
I've never seen anything that gives the name of Peter Young's wife. I don't
think her name was Elizabeth Cagle at all. I think she was "assigned" to the
Cagle family since two of her grandsons lived with the Cagle family for a time.
Walter J. Cagle and his wife, Lavina, are from Tennessee. They consistently gave their
birthplace as Tennessee from 1850 through 1880. Peter Young brought his family from
Kentucky. Most of his children were born there and there's no evidence he ever set
foot in Tennessee.
Although it's filled with inaccuracies, the piece on James Monroe Risener
(half-brother to Christian, and another nephew of Charlotte Young Risener) in "A
Reminiscent History of The Ozark Region" published by Goodspeed in 1894, reads,
"....and after the death of his mother he made his home with his uncle, Christian
Young, who was killed during the war, after which he made his home with the widow for a
short time. He then ran away and made his home with Robert Cagle until almost grown when
he lived with Walter Cagle for a short time." They were quick to point out that
Christian Young was James' uncle, but there was no familial relationship given between
James and the Cagles.
After looking high and low for some family connection between the Cagles and the Youngs
and Riseners, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that there was none. I think
the Cagles were friends of the Youngs and that's the reason they took in two sons of
Peter Young's daughters.
I do not at this time believe Peter Young's wife was related in any way to Walter J.
Cagle.