>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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~