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Lucy DeYoung's Family History and Genealogy

This picture was taken of my family at my parent's 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1996. My parents Al and Donna (Pemberton) DeYoung are in the front. The back row from left to right is my sister Linda (DeYoung) Cooper, my niece Jennifer Cooper, my husband Tim Matson, me, and my niece Wendy Cooper.
This web site is graphics intensive. Consequently many of the pictures are thumbnails so they will download faster. To see a larger picture just click on the thumbnail. If that doesn't work you will have to save the picture to your computer and then adjust the size. If it is not a thumbnail picture click on the picture, go to picture properties and enlarge the picture.
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I have added a GedHTree Index of the 18,000 plus people in my data base. This index has all the information I have on every person in my database. Hopefully this will be easier than having a separate report for each family. Click on the Index This is a work in progress. I want to know about genealogical errors. I try to document my facts. I also include information from other peoples files. When I do, I put them down as the source. (I have gotten better about documentation as I have gone along - however, most of my Dutch de Jong information is not documented as it came from my Dutch relatives early on.) Also, I am not the best typist in the world and would appreciate knowing about any errors you find. I will be more than glad to add your information to my files. If you want it added pleased send me a GEDCOM file. This has gotten so big I don't have time anymore to type in a lot of data. Finally, I usually don't add a lot of information about descendants one or two generations beyond a direct descendant or families of spouses unless I get the information in a GEDCOM file, I just have too many families in my database. Finally, I am doing this site because I want to share information with my relatives. If you have information to share about my extended family I would love to hear from you. My email address is lucy@deyoungmatson.com
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Major Family Lines
Please double-click on each family to go to genealogy charts, documents, pictures etc
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John and Ellen (Priest) DeYoung's wedding
picture - Kent, Washington August 15, 1913 |
Charles and Kate (Wilkerson) Pemberton's wedding picture - Union Star, Missouri August 23, 1908 |
| Netherlands, Michigan, Washington | Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas, West Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Washington | North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Washington | Virginia, Kentucky, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, California, Washington |
| de Jong - DeYoung | Priest - Preece | Pemberton | Wilkerson |
| Kroodsma | Price | Watson | Simpson |
| (Dijkstra) Dykstra | Abney | Elmore | Ross |
| Osenga | Smith | Myers | Halley or Hawley |
| Van Malsen | Dean | Moore | |
| (Amelander) Emelander | James | Farris | |
| Charles | Conner | ||
| Stratton | Kelley | ||
| Giddens | Echelbarger | ||
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Click to learn more about Patronymic Naming Conventions followed by many families in early America
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What is New As of Jan 30, 2008
I have done substantial work on the
Hawley>Halley,
I have also updated a lot of
information on the Pemberton As of Jan 1, 2007 I have done substantial work on the James and Charles Families. I have many documents and an analysis of who Samuel James' Father was. I also have estate documents for Michael Charles from the North Carolina Archives listing who Sarah Charles James' children were. I have also done a major update on my Faris/Farris family. |
I have a lot of unknown pictures please go to the unknown photos page to see if you know any of my long lost relatives. 2006 Trip to North Carolina and Virginia Pictures - North Carolina
2004 - North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky Trip I have finally downloaded the pictures from my trip last fall to North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. I went to all the places my Dean, James, Craig, Pemberton, Price and Priest families lived in these states. It was a great trip.
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2003 - Kentucky - Ohio Trip To see the photo's of my trip to Kentucky and Ohio to my trip page or you can just go to the |
2001 Trip to Friesland, The Netherlands
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2007 continued to be a sad year for our family. We lost my Dad's only sister Anna Frances DeYoung Gasslander shortly after her 91st birthday. Her health was relatively good until she passed and her mind was sharp as a tack. I wish I had her memory. She was phenomenal. She was a wonderful woman and I am so grateful I got to know her better over the last ten years. She is the reason I got into genealogy and I will be forever grateful. I know she didn't know what she going to unleash when she said to me she would like to know more about her Mother's family. I miss walking into her apartment and seeing her smile, however I know she is singing with the angels and playing the organ like she did when she was young. 2006 was very sad year for my family. I have lost both an aunt and an uncle. Frances Pemberton DeYoung was my Mother's oldest living sister who died in July, and most recently on the 18th of September James Henry DeYoung my Dad's next oldest brother died. I was fortunate enough to go to The Netherlands with Jim, my aunt Dorothy and cousin Terri in 2001. There are many pictures of Jim on my website in the Trip to Friesland pictures. He had a wonderful time there and shortly before he died said this was one of his favorite trips. They will all be greatly missed. |
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James H. DeYOUNG
James was born January 16, 1928 in Houghton, WA and passed away Sunday, September 18, 2005 at Evergreen Hospice in Kirkland. Jim is survived by Dorothy DeYoung of Mill Creek, his beloved wife of 59 years, his daughters Terri DeYoung of Seattle and Diana (Robert) Mee of Everett. He is also survived by his brothers; Lowell (Stella), Al (Donna), and sister Anna Frances Gasslander of Woodinville and Robert (Barbara) of Edmonds. Also many nieces and nephews, all of whom note his passing with great sorrow. Jim graduated from Bothell High School in 1946 and served in the US Army Military Police stationed to protect the Nuclear Reactor site at Hanford, WA. After discharge, he and Dorothy worked for GE at Richland, WA for several years and returned to Seattle in 1953. He joined Washington Federal Savings in 1957 when it was a small savings and loan in Bothell, Wa. The bank grew into the large Seattle based interstate institution it is today though many mergers beginning with Ballard Federal Savings. Jim grew along with the bank and retired in 1979 as Vice-President and Manager of the Lynnwood Branch. There he helped finance many builders which allowed many, many homeowners to realize their dreams of home ownership in a rapidly growing part of the Pacific Northwest. After retirement Jim developed property; a mobile home park in Woodinville, a condo in metropolitan Seattle and home sites. He followed his dream of owning his own boat which he had built and then finished the interior himself. He was often joined by family and friends on adventurous trips to both Northern Canadian and the American San Juan Islands and even Alaska. He was completely at home on the waters of the Northwest. He and Dorothy traveled extensively around the world, mostly on cruise ships. He was preceded in death by his brother John Milford (Frances) and his grandparents Menno (Harry) and Ida Dykstra DeYoung who were pioneers in the Kent Valley and by his parents John and Ellen DeYoung. His parents moved to Woodinville, WA in 1925 to become longtime residents who were engaged in the general merchandise store, sawmill, feed and grain business. Jim was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February, 2004. He fought it with a fierce determination and endured the most aggressive treatments in defiance of the unbeatable odds. He has lost his courageous battle but faced death with courage and grace. He was supported and loved by his family and wonderful friends and neighbors who stood by him during this tragic time. We will forever cherish his memory and miss him always. Visitation and Viewing will be held on Mon. September 26, 2005 at the Bothell Funeral Home, 18224 103rd Ave. NE., Bothell, Wa. from 5 to 8 p.m. and on Tues. Sept 27 from 9 to 11 a.m. A Funeral Service will follow at Trinity Episcopal Church at 2301 Hoyt, Everett, WA on Tues. Sept 27 at 1 p.m. Graveside Services will be held at the Hillcrest Cemetery in Kent, WA on Wed., Sept 28 at 11:30 a.m. The family suggests in lieu of flowers a donation be made to the American Institute for Cancer Research of the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 97167, Washington D.C. 20090-7167 or the Virginia Mason Foundation Dl-MF P.O. Box 1930, Seattle, Wa 98111-1930 or Hospice of your choice. |
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Introduction to my family genealogy
This web site is dedicated to my family history. It is a very interesting family and I am very honored to be part of it. My search began about 2001. I vividly remember sitting down with my Father's only sister, my Aunt Anna Frances, pouring over a map of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri trying to find Green Forest, Arkansas and Golden, Missouri - the towns where my grandmother DeYoung (Priest) was born and raised. I remember talking about my Grandmother's family and looking at the photographs my Aunt had. The names, places and people seemed so far away and long ago. Today, they are my long lost friends.
In my search I have learned I come from a very old family. My Mother's maternal side - the Wilkersons - were at the Gilford Courthouse battle during the Revolution and they were early settlers at Boonesborough, Kentucky making them one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky and then were some of the original settlers in Warren County, Ohio. They lived in Virginia before the Revolutionary War. The Wilkersons married into the Halley and Simpson Families in Virginia in the 1700's. James Halley was my first ancestor to come to this country in 1641. It is hard to imagine this was only 20 years after the pilgrims landed and 40 years after Jamestown. What an adventure to leave England for an unknown country of hardships and Indians. These were incredible people.
My Mother's paternal side -the Pembertons - were at Kings Mountain, a pivotal battle during the Revolutionary War and were early settlers in Tennessee and then Kentucky and Missouri.
My Father's maternal side - the Priests, Jameses, Abneys, Smiths, and Deans - moved from Virginia and North Carolina to Appalachia before 1810. They also were in the Revolutionary War. I am basically Welsh and English. The Abney family is very interesting in that we can trace that line back to one of the signers of the Magna Carta. I am speechless to know that one of my ancestors signed a document that is the foundation for our legal system.
The DeYoungs, my Dutch heritage, were the last to arrive, arriving in 1882. Before Ellis Island opened it gates to thousands of immigrants my family was here. I come from hearty stock.
In my search I have learned that James H. Wilkerson, John Pemberton, John Dean, Andrew Craig, William Farris, John Watson, Samuel Priest are all documented Revolutionary War soldiers with the DAR. So I am a Daughter of the Revolution on three sides, although I am only a documented DAR through John Dean and James H. Wilkerson at this point in time. I was reading something the other day that less than five percent of the people in this country have ancestors who fought in the Revolution. So to have three sides of my family participate in the founding of this country is something of which I am very proud. I am sure there are more Revolutionary War veterans in my family since the James, Robertsons, Elmores, Abneys, Smiths, Strattons, Giddens and other were in this country during the Revolution.
The history of my family is the settling of this country. As new territories opened up, my family moved to them. My ancestors settled Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Montana, California, and Washington. They were basically farmers by vocation. None were famous, but they were all good, upstanding people. I am very proud of my family.
Since that first day with Aunt Anna Frances I have had the opportunity to travel to The Netherlands with my Aunt Dorothy, Uncle Jim and Cousin Terri. Among other things we were able to see where my great great grandfather Hans Mennes de Jong, who brought the DeYoung's to America, was born and to meet some of our Dutch close and distant relatives. They were wonderful. They provided us with so much information I will be eternally grateful. In addition I have had the wonderful opportunity to meet and start corresponding and sharing information with several of my Priest cousins in California, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Virginia and Rhode Island. In 2004 I had the opportunity to travel to Kentucky and Ohio visiting the Priest homestead in Floyd County, Kentucky and the Wilkerson cemetery at Spring Hill, Warren County, Ohio. It was wonderful. In October 2004 I went back to North Carolina, Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, and Eastern Kentucky where so many of my families were in the 1700's. I was in North Carolina and Virginia again in the fall of 2006.
The fact that this circle is growing is what finally motivated my to start this web site. Since I want to share the information I have been collecting, this seemed like the most logical solution. Plus the fact my husband is a Microsoft Certified Engineer and is a network engineer by vocation. Thank you dear.
This is a work in progress. I want to know about genealogical errors. I try to document my facts. I also include information from other peoples files. When I do, I put them down as the source. (I have gotten better about documentation as I have gone along - however, most of my Dutch de Jong information is not documented as it came from my Dutch relatives early on.) Also, I am not the best typist in the world and would appreciate knowing about any errors you find. I will be more than glad to add your information to my files. If you want it added pleased send me a GEDCOM file. Generally I don't add a lot of information about descendants once removed from a direct descendant.
Finally, I am doing this site because I want to share information with my relatives. If you have information to share about my extended family I would love to hear from you. My email address is lucy@deyoungmatson.com.