pled," were rather strong and well car- 

 ried out from her head, which was broad 

 and well shaped, with a good full eye. 

 Her neck was rather thin, shoulders 

 smooth, back broad, rib deep, udder 

 large and good. She was characterized 

 as being .a remarkable milker and one 

 of the best milking Shorthorns owned 

 in the Vanmeter herds. During the early 

 stages of lactation, if on grass, she pro- 

 duced "a large pailful of milk morning 

 and evening after the calf had drunk its 

 fill." 



Young Mary proved to be a very long 

 lived and prolific cow. While authori- 

 ties do not entirely agree, she at least 

 lived to be 21 years old, having a heifer 

 calf then, which soon died. B. F. Van- 

 meter, a grandson of Captain Cunning- 

 ham, gave her produce as sixteen heifers 

 and four bulls. Her first calf was a roan 

 bull named Davy Crockett, calved on 

 Dec. 5, 1834, and sired by a bull Clark. 

 Her second calf, another roan bull, 

 named Logan, was sired by Duke of 

 York (1941), and was dropped Oct. 27, 

 1835. These two bulls were sold in the 

 same sale Young Mary was in, and Davy 

 Crockett was purchased at $490 by Peter 

 L. Ayres of Ohio and Logan by Jonathan 

 Renick of Pickaway county, Ohio, at 

 $750. Ayres was a man w.ho did not keep 

 up his pedigrees, and no record is left 

 of the influence of Davy Crockett. Po- 

 cahontas, the third calf of Young Mary, 

 was dropped in 1836, and was sired by 

 Comet Halle y (1855). Her fourth calf 

 was a red and white bull named Romu- 

 lus by Matchem (2283), that was bred 

 in Kentucky and was bought by James 

 Stonestreet of Clark county, who used 

 him in but a small way on pure-bred 

 stock. Besides the above, by the bull 

 Goldfinder (2066) she produced five calves 

 viz., Hannah Moore, Judith Clark, 

 Lilac, Florida and Sarah Hopkins that 

 developed into high-class, valuable cows. 

 Hannah Moore was a very successful 

 show cow, was well known on the Ken- 

 tucky fair grounds and is said to have 

 been undefeated. In 1886 William War- 

 field, than whom there is no greater 

 authority, wrote: "There never has been 

 a time since 1836 when Young Marys 

 and Young Phyllises were not winners 

 in the show rings of Kentucky, and ap- 

 parently there will never be such a 

 time." 



Sanders in his history of Shorthorn 

 cattle states that Young Mary produced 



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