Richard Rabe Young

   Another name for Richard was Dixie.

  General Notes:

He had a brother Harvey and a sister, Florence and a half brother Winfred Richardson. Little is known of his father. During his younger days, he and his sons, Harry, Edward and James Herbert were known as the best woodworking finishers in Sedalia and the surrounding area. Dixie, as he was called, was a small man of 5 foot 7inches or 5 foot 8 inches and had a thick head of wavy snow white hair when he died. He always wore a derby hat cocked to the right side of his head and if he just tasted a few "spirits" it might be lightly tilted over his right eye. Dixie was a big hit with his grandchildren. He entertained them with his whistling and by making "shadow-animals" on the wall with his hands. Dixie spent his last years living with one or another of his sons and their family.
Some family sources show his birth year as 1869 but based on the birth years of his children, the 1880 census and family reported date of death of his father as 1867, I believe the correct year is 1866. RAH ²⁰

  Research Notes:

1880 Census shows 13 year old Richard living with his mother Martha and stepfather Leon Mason. The census shows his occupation as house painter and his step father's place of birth as New York. It also shows two other siblings living in the household, Flora and Harvey.

Richard married Betsy Ann Stanley, daughter of William Stanley and Barsheba MILLER. (Betsy Ann Stanley was born in 1870 in Rockcastle, , Kentucky, USA and died in 1910 in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, USA.)