Thomas Youngblood (ca. 1772-1863) and his wife, Jane Head, migrated from South Carolina in 1834 to Bullock County, Alabama. Their descendant, William Youngblood (1839-1924), married Fannie Armstrong in 1882. Armstrong ancestry is traced to Martin Armstrong who was in Tryon County, South Carolina and later moved to Hancock County, Georgia. He died ca. 1810. Descendants lived in Alabama and elsewhere.

Family of Ora L. Shaver (1890-1975) born in Blount Co., Alabama to George W. Shaver and Laura E. Freeman, both of Montgomery, Alabama. The early Shaver ancestor, Andrew Shaver, was born ca. 1700, and he lived in South Carolina. The grandparents of Ora L. Shaver on her father's side were William H. Shaver and Sarah A. Amason both of Montgomery, Alabama and on her mother's side Joseph A. Freeman of Sumter, S. Carolina and Sarah Hodge of Alabama. The early Amason ancestor, Benjamin Amason Sr., died before Feb. 1793 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina. Family members live in Alabama, South Carolina, Michigan, Georgia, Mississippi and elsewhere.

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Across a century, Victoria Bynum reinterprets the cultural, social, and political meaning of Mississippi's longest civil war, waged in the Free State of Jones, the southeastern Mississippi county that was home to a Unionist stronghold during the Civil War and home to a large and complex mixed-race community in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.