Hopkins Co., TX - Bios: J. F. Youngblood
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   BIOGRAPHY OF THE OLDEST MAN IN THE COUNTY

J. F. Youngblood is the oldest man living in Hopkins County. He was born in
the year 1805, and is therefore ninety-seven years old. Tennessee is his
native state. He came to Texas in the year 1848. he moved to Harrison County,
but remained there only a short time. This was in the day of Regulators and
Moderators. He has suffered great misfortunes, almost a calamity in his
married life, having lost four companions. He is to- day living with his fifth
wife. He has six children. Four of this number are living – Mrs. Hurley,
mother of W. C. Hurley, postmaster of Sulphur Springs, and John A. Hurley, a
lawyer of prominence in the county. Mrs. Ripley is another daughter, a pure,
good and noble woman, a widow, who deserves great credit for the manner in
which she has raised her family. Mr. Youngblood has been famous in three
states as a singing teacher, understanding the rudiments of music most
thoroughly; and to-day, burdened as he is with the weight of ninety-seven
years, he can sing interestingly and instructively. He has a mouth full of
good, sound teeth, having lost none of them during his long life. He has never
chewed or smoked tobacco, has observed and practiced habits of temperance,
kept regular hours, spent his nights at home with his family, and has lived a
life of personal purity. His religious views are somewhat peculiar. He
believes in an exclusive Christ, Jesus is sovereign, universal king and only
potentate. He only is the Christ of God, he is the Saviour of men, neither is
there salvation in any other. Being an Exclusivist he discards the beliefs of
sects and denominations. The Bible gives no places for a plurality of
brotherhood in Christ. But one is your father and all ye are brethren. One
family in heaven and in earth. Eph. 3:15. For as we have many members in one
body and all members have not the same office, so we, being many, are one body
in Christ, and every one members one of another, only one body in Christ, as
we discern that body and know that God has inducted us into the same, it were
dishonesty in the sight of God and a base, cowardly act to compromise to
please men who admit several hundred other bodies.

SOURCE: Early History of Hopkins County Texas - E. B. Fleming, Publisher 1902
Pp. 130 - 132
   Transcribed by Pat Howard