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son, I. C. Vanmeter, who sold her after a few 

 years to George W. Button of Fayette County. 

 The records do not reveal further facts of 

 interest concerning Young Mary's progeny. All 

 that is known is that she was a regular breeder 

 of good stock and lived to an extreme age. The 

 great family of Young Marys, still so popular 

 throughout the United States, has descended 

 from the Goldfinder heifers and Pocahontas 

 above mentioned. Probably the best individual 

 of all of Young Mary's daughters was Hannah 

 More. She was exhibited at all of the leading 

 Kentucky shows and was, we believe, never de- 

 feated. Her sisters were almost as good, but 

 Hannah More and Pocahontas, in particular, 

 like their Phyllis companion Catherine Tur- 

 ley, proved mines of wealth to Kentucky, and 

 the West. Pocahontas gave rise to the famous 

 Red Rose and Hannah More to the Beck Tay- 

 lor, Leslie and Flat Creek branches of the Mary 

 tribe. Judith Clark also left a valuable prog- 

 eny, among her descendants being the Grace 

 Youngs, once so prolific of good show cattle in 

 the West, and the Leopardess family, which 

 gave to the show-yard Lucy Napier. The suc- 

 cess of the blending of the Mary and Phyllis 

 bloods in the hands of Messrs. Vanmeter was 

 instantaneous. Bred to John Randolph 603, 

 son of imp. Young Phyllis, Hannah More had 

 a daughter Queen Anne that produced to 



