Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families
died in 1826 leaving a Will in Will Book C, pp 311-312, in the Edgefield Court House Records, in which he willed property to his daughter, Frances (Clarke) Johns. There is also of record in Edgefield the Administration of the Estate of John Clarke showing his heirs to have been; Polly Roberts; Nancy Taylor (m. Baxter Taylor); Elizabeth Brooks (m. Felix Brooks); Frances Clarke (m. Robert Johns); William Clarke; Edward Clarke, Elenorand Dempsey Clarke, daughters of son, John Clarke, deceased.
Col. Robert Johns was born in Virginia in 1784, according to the Federal Census of 1850, and other sources. He enlisted in the War of 1812 at Vetita Springs, So. Car. a small community not far from the home of Thomas and Amy (Hopkins) Youngblood. This Thomas and Amy (Hopkins) Youngblood were the parents of Thomas Youngblood of Alabama. The exact location of their plantation and the little community called Vetita Springs are shown on the map of Edgefield District in Mills Atlas of South Carolina which was printed in 1817.
The military record of Col. Robert Johns is on file in the War Department, Washington, D. C. and also in the records of the National Society of the United States Daughters of the War of 1812. Several of his descendants have joined that organization on his service. There has also been located in the Department of Archives, Washington, D. C. a letter written by him in which he stated that he was born in Virginia but enlisted for service in the War of 1812 at Vetita Springs, S. C. and served as a private with South Carolina troops under Capt. Briant Marsh in Col. Allston's Regiment. A warrant, Number 61173, for forty acres of Bounty Land in Chambers County, Ala. was issued to him under the Act of Sept. 28, 1850 and another warrant, Number 26387, for one hundred and twenty acres of Bounty Land, also in Chambers County, Ala. was issued under the Act of Mar. 3, 1855. Both of these Land Grants were in recognition of his military service and were in addition to the land he had bought before moving to Alabama. His File in the National Archives is No. B. L.W.T. 26 387-120-55.
It has been definitely established that Frances Johns Youngblood was born about 1818 in Edgefield, as were all of her brothers and sisters. Her parents, Robert and Frances (Clarke) Johns, were married about 1805. It is certain that the Johns Family lived in close proximity to the Youngbloods in South Carolina as shown by deeds for lands purchased by Robert Johns and later sold when he began to make his plans to move to Alabama. It is somewhat intriguing that the Johns and Youngbloods were friends before moving to Alabama and that they were all in the
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