Personal Life and Family
Young had four children with his first wife, Jean Childs, who died of cancer in 1994. He married his second wife, Carolyn McClain, in 1996.
According to a DNA analysis performed by African Ancestry Inc., he descended partially from people of Sierra Leone.
Young himself was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 1999, which was successfully removed with surgery in January 2000.
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