Please do not send me any more information Thank you -----Original Message----- From: ballgwee@concentric.net <ballgwee@concentric.net> To: YOUNGBLOOD-L@rootsweb.com <YOUNGBLOOD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [YOUNGBLOOD-L] Collection of Wm. Youngblood data.. >>Subject: [YOUNGBLOOD-L] Collection of Wm. Youngblood data.. >>Sent: 8/13/19 5:53 PM >>Received: 8/18/99 8:49 PM >>From: Beverly Rich, brrich@olympus.net >>To: YOUNGBLOOD-L@rootsweb.com >> >>Because you asked how I got all that family history: >> >>I began when I was 27 years old (am in my early 60's now) by >>interviewing my 82 year old grandfather, and his sister-in-law, both of >>whom grew up in Rocky Comfort, MO. I asked them to tell me everything >>they knew about their ancestors, and I wrote down everything they said. >>Grandpa's Mother died when he was born, and she was the Youngblood. >>Both of them knew her brother, (Bryant Hardy Youngblood), and his wife, >>and together could piece together the names of their children, and >>that's all they knew. Grandpa knew that his parents were married in >>Mayfield, KY, and he had his mother's birthdate and death date. >> >>Though the Mayfield 1852 records had burned, a part of the birth records >>for the latter part of that year were intact, and a copy was found in >>Salt Lake City, and I found the announcement of his mother's birth >>there, with the names of her parents. What luck! I then found the >>parents listed in the Mayfield, Graves County census record for 1850 in >>Salt Lake, and they had been married within the last year, and were >>living with her parents, the Williams family. >> >>Now I knew the name of Alfred Youngblood, and I searched census records >>for 1860's, 1870's etc, in KY and MO for that family, and found them in >>Bollinger County, MO and later the family, without Alfred with them, >>back in Mayfield. I thought then he might have died in the war, so I >>looked up Civil War records, and found his in that library, and learned >>he had been killed. I found books about Youngbloods in that LDS >>library, and one especially, the Maberry book had names very like some >>of ours seen in the census records, and they were MO. people, only >>living in Ray County, near Bollinger, so I wrote the author, and also >>several of the Youngblood researchers the author had interviewed for his >>book. He had listed their addresses. I heard from one of those >>researcher's only, and she was a descendant of Mary Magdalene >>Youngblood, the 6th child of Wm., and she had all the family history >>sheets on Alfred and William. She also had the Civil War records on >>Alfred Youngblood, and the application letters written by Alfred's wife >>and her mother-in-law to Washington D.C. to try to get a widow's pension >>for her and her 7 children. She had to prove that these children were >>hers. Her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Garret, a midwife, had delivered all >>of them, and had not properly registered their births, so it took quite >>a few letters before Alfred's widow finally was able to receive her >>pension. I was sent copies of all the correspondence which this >>researcher had secured from Civil War Pension records in Washington D.C. >>I also looked up Civil War military records on all of William's sons >>while in Salt Lake, and found that two sons fought for the North, and >>the three youngest ones, for the South. >> >>I found, through the LDS library, on either their AF, or IGI, (are those >>the right initials?), some of the names that were on the sheets that I >>had been given by the descendant of Mary Magdalene Youngbood. This was >>on my 2nd and last trip to Salt Lake. I copied down who submitted the >>information I found there, and wrote to these people, and through that >>heard from researchers on the lines of William O. B. Youngblood and >>James M. Youngblood, so I learned all about their descendants. One >>informer I wrote to was actually an LDS missionary working in the >>library during the time I was there visiting, only I didn't know that at >>the time. She had been there helping people with their genealogy for >>two years. I found that out when I returned home, and wrote to her. >>She called me on the telephone answering my letter. In trying to find >>the parents of our William, she had had research done by a genealogist >>at the library, and she sent me his sheet listing 10 possible fathers of >>our William Youngblood. >> >>When I got a computer, I spelled Youngblood on Yahoo.com, and got Wayne >>Youngblood's website that way, and read what he wrote about this family, >>and on Youngblood-L@rootsweb.com, I found Dorothy Quaife, who answered >>some of my queries, and these lead me to finding the "Thomas Youngblood >>Family" written by Margaret Ann Cloys and Ollis Smith, and one of these >>is Wayne Youngblood's great Aunt. Anyway, all this line that I had >>already learned about is listed almost perfectly in it, and with a few >>additional facts I had previously not known. The hard thing about it >>all is that we still don't know who William's parents are, and we aren't >>even sure that William belongs in this book right now. He must belong >>there, but how come his brothers are 30 and 40 years older than he is? >> >>All this has taken about ten years of sporadic search. Months go by and >>I do nothing. I think I have been very lucky to find as much as I have >>found so far, and mine is not the most orthodox way one should go about >>searching. The correct way is to write places of death and birth, and >>get copies of the birth and death certificates, and go back that way. >>Death certificates usually have the parents' names of the deceased, the >>spouse' name, and also the place of birth of the deceased. So, that >>gives you a whole new earlier generation, and a place to go to write for >>a birth certificate. >> >>I have mostly been successful thanks to having had ancestors who were >>curious enough in the last 75 years to want to know their family >>history, and to keep track of their descendants, and to put it all on >>paper. Beverly Rich >> >> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >*************************************************************************** > > >YOUNGBLOOD > >6. Benjamin Youngblood (10/20/1773-1/15/1860) m. Susannah Collins > m. 12/20/1794 in Richmond Co., GA (5/16/1775-11/19/1866) > per Ray Ball >5.Joseph A. Youngblood (1812-1900) m. Mary Eliza Bickham >(school teacher) > (per Margaret Jpcrg@aol.com), 8/10/1999 > >4. Lucy Youngblood (3/8/1844-10/17/1926) m. Sampson Edward Ball >(7/15/1844-11/11/1918) > m. on 11/14/1865 > >3. Iddo Ball(1881-1935) m. Ada Belle Alford > (1880-1971), 2nd cousins > >2. John Wesley Ball(7/31/1902-11/4/1974) m. Loraine Moak >(8/25/1915-3/5/1998) > m. on 3/6/1942 > >1. Frances Loraine Ball (2/7/1943- ) > > >Sources: Personal knowledge, Ball histories, Ray Ball, various sources >including the Mormon church records for the list of Benjamin and Susannah >Collins Youngblood's children; Margaret at Jpcrg@aol.com; Joyce Zachman >AdopyWorks@aol.com; Beverly Rich, brrich@olympus.net, 8/19/99. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >