Sherry (Young) Elsey
Honor Code SignatorySigned 1 Jun 2021 | 473 contributions | 10 thank-yous | 846 connections
Signed 1 Jun 2021 | 473 contributions | 10 thank-yous | 846 connections
tested
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of Isaac Ray Young
and Mattie Roena (Hardwick) Young
Mother of
[private son (1980s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
| Created 31 May 2021
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Biography
Sherry Lynn Young was born in January, 1957, in St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. Her parents are: Isaac Young and Mattie Roena Hardwick Young (Margaret). Sherry grew up in the same house for 17 years. Sherry was the third of four living children. Sherry attended and graduated from Richland Elementary School, Central Jr. High School, and East Peoria Community High School. She also attended Illinois Central College for one year and took some Bible classes at Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, Arizona, while her husband was a student there. Sherry and her husband R. Elsey were married in August, 1977, at Wesley Southern Baptist Church in East Peoria, Tazewell County, Illinois, USA. They lived in Morton, Illinois; East Peoria, Illinois; Tucson, Arizona; Tremont, Illinois; Phoenix, Arizona; Louisville, Kentucky; Ingraham, Illinois; Rome, Illinois; Louisville, Kentucky; Rising Sun, Indiana; Hopkinsville, Kentucky; Nashville Tennessee; and Columbia, Tennessee. They adopted their son, N. Elsey in 1988. He was born in September, 1987, in Seoul, South Korea. He arrived by airplane at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to join our family in the early morning hours of January 13, 1988.
Sherry's work history includes: Ponderosa Steak House in Peoria, Illinois; Holiday Inn Restaurant in East Peoria, Illinois; student worker at Illinois Central College in East Peoria, Illinois; data entry at Farm Bureau Ins. in Pekin, Illinois; office manager at The Tazewell Courier newspaper, East Peoria, Illinois; respiratory therapy tech at St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois; library tech at Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; secretary to the librarian, Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, Arizona; reference assistant (2 different times) at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Library, Louisville, Kentucky; Talman Home Savings and Loan, Peoria, Illinois; mail sorter at Caterpillar Tractor Company, Mossville, Illinois; office manager, APCO Services, Hopkinsville, Kentucky; office manager at Cleeton, Davis Court Reporters, Nashville, Tennessee; human resources assistant at Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, Brentwood/Franklin, Tennessee. Sherry retired in September of 2019.
She was raised in church and began being involved in church work as a Sunday School teacher when she was 15. She has been Sunday School teacher, Youth Leader, GA Leader, Acteens Leader, Associational Acteen Director, Women's Group Leader, Women's Bible Study Facilitator, choir member, along with other church positions, as well as being the pastor's wife.
Sherry began doing family genealogy in 1980.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Sherry Young at registration. Official sources are not available online at this time.
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- private siblings' names
- private children's names (1)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Sherry or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sherry:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Sherry or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sherry:
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Sherry (Young) Elsey:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A901322 [compare], yourDNAportal SHEdee97e3a, Ancestry member SherryElsey51
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Joyce (Young) Majors
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A606974 [compare], yourDNAportal JOYce507f8c, Ancestry member srojamj4
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