Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families
Henry Crowell's Co., Regiment of Georgia Militia, commanded by Col. Jos. B. Chambers. He was discharged, 4/2/1813, at Camp Pinckney. (War Dept. Rec.)
In Washington Co. Tex. Nov. 19, 1851, Alexander McDade, age 61, applied for bounty land, and in recognition of this service, Warrant #50212 was issued to him, April 11, 1853. His widow, Anna, made an affidavit that her husband had died May 1, 1852, and requested that the warrant be concelled and re-issued in her name, which was done. She also declared that she was married to Alexander McDade, in Jasper, Co. Ga. Nov. 27, 1817, and that her name before marriage was Anna Armstrong. (Dept. Archives, Wash. D. C.)
Anna McDade was the daughter of John Armstrong, who moved his family from Georgia, to that part of Alabama, which later became Lowndes Co. She was the granddaughter of John Armstrong, who died in Jasper Co. Ga. in 1810, and his wife, Anna. Anna McDade had several brothers, among whom were Franklin and Martin Armstrong, and a sister who married a Mitchell and had a son, Armstrong Mitchell.
On Nov. 6, 1838, Franklin Armstrong, of Lowndes Co. Ala. deeded six negroes to John A. McDade; Jas. W. McDade; Eliza McDade; Alex I. McDade; Thos. S. McDade; Jacob C. McDade and Franklin A. McDade, children of Alexander McDade, Sr. and Anna McDade. (Montg'y and Lowndes Co. Rec.)
Alexander McDade, Sr, established his home in Montgomery Co. Ala. prior to 1819. When he applied, on Feb. 2, 1819, for additional land through the Cahaba Land Office, he stated he was then of Ala. Ter.
On Mar. 14, 1822, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, and in 1825, he joined the Masonic Lodge #11, in Montgomery. The first store at Mt. Meigs, Ala. was the firm of McDade and Bynum, one of the partners being Alexander McDade, the early settler.
Between 1840 and 1850, Alexander McDade, moved his family from Montgomery Co. Ala. to Washington Co. Texas.
Alex and Anna McDade had six sons and one daughter. A. James Wilkins McDade, born in Alabama about 1819, moved with his parents to Washington Co. Tex. before 1850. He married Caroline Tennessee Cooper, of Charleston, S. C. a descendant of Lord and Lady Cowper, of England, and settled near Chapel Hill. He was a stock holder and director of the first railroad between Austin and Houston. McDade Tex. by which town the road ran, was named for him. The site for the town of Hempstead Texas, was donated by him and Dr. R. R. Peoples. He represented Washing
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