General Notes

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Thomas J. Youngblood,(9) a successful farmer of Pike County, Ala. And at
present a public weigher of Troy, was born near Fariorville, Bullock
county, Ala., Sept. 15, 1842.  He was educated at Fariorville, and at
Youngblood’s Mill, Pike county, and is known as an honest, upright and
faithful citizen.  He was trustee of the public schools of Pike county
from 1870 to 1880, has served seven years as county commissioner of Pike
county, and is a member of the county board of pensions.  In politics he
is a conservative, "gold standard," sound currency Democrat.  He enlisted
as a private in Company H, Eighteenth Alabama infantry, March 10, 1862,
and during the last year of the war served as sergeant.  He engaged in
the battles of Chickamauga, Resaca, New Hope Church, Atlanta, Jonesboro,
Columbia, Franklin and Nashville, besides other smaller engagements.  At
Chickamauga he was twice wounded and at the siege of Atlanta was wounded
by a piece of flying shell.  He served gallantly as a member of the rear
guard in Hood’s army in the retreat from Nashville; was at the siege of
Spanish Fort, and surrendered with Gen. Richard Taylor in May, 1865.  For
his gallantry at Spanish Fort, where he was given command of a picked
band of men and entrusted with a perilous and difficult duty, Sergeant
Youngblood received public commendation from his commander, Brig. Gen.
James T. Holtzclaw.  Mr. Youngblood is an influential member of the Good
Hope Baptist church, of Pike county.  This church he joined in 1865, and
served nine years as clerk.  He has been a deacon for the past fifteen
years.  He has been a master Mason in Troy lodge, No. 56, Free and
Accepted Masons, since 1885.  On Dec. 23, 1863, he married Josephine
Arthur Jenerett, daughter of Elias(1) and Eliza (Thomas) Jenerett, who
lived near Troy.  Mrs. Youngblood’s maternal grandfather, James Thomas,
married Mollie Welch about the year 1785 and reared a large family in
North Carolina, after which they all removed to Alabama in 1835, settling
near Inverness, Bullock county.  They were successful farmers and
influential citizens.  Her grandfather Jenerett married Margaret
Portervint and reared a useful and influential family in North Carolina.
He served with the artillery in the Colonial army during the Revolution.
Mr. and Mrs. Youngblood have reared a large family.  The oldest daughter,
Laura, married Robert M. Davis, of Worthy, Pike county, Ala.  David F.
married Cannie Strowd, and lives in San Antonio, Tex.  John Bunyan(2)
joined the Baptist church at the age of fourteen, was ordained to preach
in 1893, when twenty-three years old, and was faithful to his calling
until his death, March 20, 1896.   James A. and George L. live in San
Antonio, Tex.  There are also three younger daughters:  Nora V., Eula May
and Arsula Winiford.  David F., James A. and George L. are, respectively,
president, vice-president and secretary and treasurer of the Southern
Structural Steel company, of San Antonio.  This company has a paid-up
capital of $100,000 and is engaged in building steel cells for jails,
iron bridges, etc.  The grandchildren of Thomas J. Youngblood are Thomas
S., Reymond L. and Ruby Davis, of Worthy, Pike county, Ala., and Hull
Bunyan, Mattie, Cannie and Josephine Youngblood, of San Antonio, Tex.
Thomas J. Youngblood is descended from ancestors who fought in the
American Revolution.  His father, James Youngblood,(3) was born in
Edgefield county, S. C., in 1809; was a successful miller and planter,
and in 1837 removed to Pike county, Ala.  He was the son of Jacob and
Sarah (Still) Youngblood, of Edgefield county, S. C.  He married
Elizabeth, daughter of John Lee, Jr., and Sarah (Bean) Lee, in 1834, and
reared a large family: John L.,(4) Sarah,(5) David,(6) James J.,(7) Jacob
B.,(8) Thomas J.,(9) Amy Jane,(10) Joseph F.(11) and George W.(12)   John
L., David, James J., Jacob B. and