Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families
years ago, when the last of these Youngbloods died or moved away and none of this family of the Youngblood name remained in this locality. From earlier personal acquaintance with the older generations of these Youngbloods and from what I heard the older people say in my youth, I know that this Youngblood family had settled in and lived in this community long before I was born.
I know the place in this old Youngblood community, on Sleepy Creek and Ephrams Branch, where Thomas Youngblood lived before and until about 1833, when he and his family moved to Pike County, Ala. The wife of this Thomas Youngblood was Jane Head, who was a sister of my grandmother, Phoebe (Head) Johnson. The eldest son, John Waters Youngblood (commonly called "Shinny John" because of his expert playing of the game called "shinny") of this Thomas and Jane Head Youngblood, was a cousin of my father and they also moved to Pike County, Ala. when Thomas Youngblood moved. I have many times heard my father tell of going to school to a man named Hubbard, in the Youngblood community, who married a daughter of Thomas Youngblood and also moved to Pike County, Ala. when Thomas Youngblood moved.
The foregoing were matters of common knowledge in the community and in our family in my youth and young manhood and I frequently heard them discussed by members of the families of my father, grandfather and great grandfather who were personally acquainted with all these people and all these facts. For many years some desultory communication was kept up between those who moved away and those who remained in this community. In 1860 I was in Pike County, Ala. for a short while and spent a night with a Thomas Youngblood of this family, who was personally acquainted with many of his relatives in the Meeting Street community and we discussed them and their affairs and relationship for quite a while.
My father was Mark Johnson and my grandfather was John Johnson. Phoebe (Head) Johnson, my grandfather's wife and my grandmother, was a sister of Jane (Head) Youngblood, the wife of that Thomas Youngblood who moved to Pike County, Ala. They had another sister, Sarah, who married George Dorn and a sister, Rosa, and a brother, Richard, who moved to Alabama when Thomas Youngblood moved. Rosa married in Alabama and then moved to Mississippi and Richard later moved to Illinois. Their father was James Head, my great grandfather, who died in 1850 at the age of eighty eight years. James Head was a Baptist but the nearest Baptist Church was the Stephen's Creek Church some miles away from where he died and he was buried at the Methodist Church, now called McKendry, then known as Sleepy Creek Church. I was then
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