Obituaries from Orange County
Mr. John Youngblood
from The Whig Press
January 14, 1852
Died. January 3d, 1852, in Montgomery, John Youngblood, in the 84th year of his age.
The deceased was born December 19th, 1768, a short time previous to the stirring times of the Revolution, of which he retained a very distinct recollection. The tales he related of "olden times," when the country round was covered with a dense forest, the roads next to impassable, and the inhabitants noted for their original plainness and simplicity, were interesting and delightful to the generation that had sprung up around him. He was ever noted for his untiring industry and great frugality. He ever expressed himself plainly and unreservedly, and was free of all deceit and hyprocrisy. Although blunt and plain spoken, he was kind at heart, and spoke well of all men. Exact in his dealings, he never suffered negligence or looseness in business to scatter his patrimony. He was remarkable for his sterling honesty, and scorned all appearance of prevaricaiton or dishonesty. An enemy to indolence, he looked with no kind or lenient eye upon the sloth or sluggard, and was discriminating and careful in the bestowment of his charities.---Yet he was a friend of the poor, and the wanderer and houseless were never turned from his door cold or hungry. A constant reader of the Scriptures, he drew from these sacred treasures hopes and principles that regulated his conduct through life, and enabled him to pass through "the dark valley and shadow of death" without terror and dismay. S.
Montgomery, Jan. 10, 1852.