Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families

064.jpg

GRAVES OF LADY GRACE O'NEILL, WHO CAME TO AMERICA IN 1618, WIDOW OF EDWARD WATERS AND HER SECOND HUSBAND, COL. OBEDIENCE ROBINS, AT CHERITON, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA. THIS COUNTY WAS NAMED FOR THE HOME OF COL. ROBINS IN ENGLAND.

William Youngblood was still at Furman University when the Drums of War once more were sounding in South Carolina and the state again was called upon to stand up and be counted. The Halls of Congress echoed with threats of Secession and politicians on both sides of the Mason and Dixon Line fanned the sparks which sprang into fire. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union. Then came the firing on Fort Sumter and THE WAR.

These were troublesome times for the entire Southland. William Youngblood, like thousands of other young men of the South, left college and returned home to follow the South' s decision in the great struggle that lay ahead.

64