Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families
use of the said Frances McDade and the heirs of her body and in case of the decease of the said Frances McDade, after marriage and after a child or children born then the said Trustee shall hold the property to and for the use of the said child or children.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hand and seal, this the 20th day of December 1847.
Signed,
Frances McDade.
Jas. F. Armstrong."
Wit. C. D. Wright. R. D. Temple.
This contract is in Box 133, Montgy Co. Ct. House, under name of Alexander McDade.
Frances was the daughter of Charles McDade and his wife, Adeline Edna (Fields) McDade. She was born at Mt. Meigs, about 1828, and died Jane 5, 1860, at Pine Level, Ala.
Following the death of Frances (McDade) Armstrong, her husband married, June 6, 1861, Mrs. Eleanor Ann Reynolds, widow of James Reynolds, and daughter of Thomas and Ann (Candler) Johnston, of Bald Mountain, N. C. She died July 23, 1914, leaving no heirs.
She was the mother of three children. Her eldest, Thomas Reynolds, while a student at the Univ. of Ala, joined the Confederate forces and died soon after the War. Her daughter, Effie Reynolds, married Henry A. Shaver, and in 1863, she, with twin daughters, died. Her youngest son, James, Jr. died in early manhood.
James Francis Armstrong rendered service for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He joined the forces as a citizen and while engaged in making salt for the Confederate Government was captured by the Federals, Sept. 29, 1864, and imprisoned at Fort Pickens, Florida, on Santa Rosa Island. He escaped. However, the records in the Dept. of Archives, Confederate Records Section, Washington, D. C. state that he, with others, was " released by Special Order #250, on account of old age and long confinement." At the time he was thirty-nine years of age and the order was dated twenty-four days after he was captured.
He died in Montgomery, Ala. July 7, 1893, while visiting at the home of a son. Buried Hopewell Cemetery, at the home place, near Mathews, Ala.
His three sons followed him into the Masonic Order, two of
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