Younger Outlaw Story

This tale is as well-told in her family as it is ours, though she has not been able to find a link between her Arah and the boys. She has corresponded with another Younger researcher, who has reached the same conclusion--that there is no link. Like me, our cousin has found her family to be deeply disappointed to hear her say there is no connection. There are members of the St. Clair County, Missouri, Younger descendants who desperately want to claim kinship to these criminals from Jackson County, and I can't understand the obsession. If it were true, so be it. I'm after the truth, not the myths. In my opinion, we should celebrate those who DO make up our ancestry and not those who don't. Let us celebrate our humble and obscure ancestors--the pioneers, the soldiers, the women, the immigrants, the farmers, the inventors, the musicians, the merchants, the tradesmen, and the survivors. Let us not be on a quest to hunt down the sensational, the famous, or the infamous. There may be none of those.