Polly was the first woman to receive a land grant after the revolution. The Youngblood family was in Texas during the Texas Revolution, she and her 8 children fled back to Louisiana to get away from the Santa Anna Army. Mary Ann's husband John Andrew Youngblood owned a plantation in St. Helena Parish, and when he died she moved to Newton County, Texas. She did not take any of their slaves with her.∼Wife of John Andrew Youngblood, d/o Stephen Williams and Delilah Stallings.
In 1834 after the death of her husband John, Mary Ann was a widow of some means whose promise of her future lay in her 7 sons. Mary's husband John died in St Helena Parish, Louisiana about the same time her sister Penelope Williams-Allen. It is believed that Mary Ann traveled in the same party as her sister's husband Nathaniel Allen and his family on the trip to Texas. Mary's husband was a planter with an unspecified number of slaves, but she brought none of them to Texas with her. With her were her children; her youngest was an infant in arms. Her eldest Andrew Jackson was 16 years of age. She is buried in the far northeast corner of her property.
Mary Ann was the 1st woman to receive a land grant in Texas.
In 1834 after the death of her husband John, Mary Ann was a widow of some means whose promise of her future lay in her 7 sons. Mary's husband John died in St Helena Parish, Louisiana about the same time her sister Penelope Williams-Allen. It is believed that Mary Ann traveled in the same party as her sister's husband Nathaniel Allen and his family on the trip to Texas. Mary's husband was a planter with an unspecified number of slaves, but she brought none of them to Texas with her. With her were her children; her youngest was an infant in arms. Her eldest Andrew Jackson was 16 years of age. She is buried in the far northeast corner of her property.
Mary Ann was the 1st woman to receive a land grant in Texas.
Polly was the first woman to receive a land grant after the revolution. The Youngblood family was in Texas during the Texas Revolution, she and her 8 children fled back to Louisiana to get away from the Santa Anna Army. Mary Ann's husband John Andrew Youngblood owned a plantation in St. Helena Parish, and when he died she moved to Newton County, Texas. She did not take any of their slaves with her.∼Wife of John Andrew Youngblood, d/o Stephen Williams and Delilah Stallings.
In 1834 after the death of her husband John, Mary Ann was a widow of some means whose promise of her future lay in her 7 sons. Mary's husband John died in St Helena Parish, Louisiana about the same time her sister Penelope Williams-Allen. It is believed that Mary Ann traveled in the same party as her sister's husband Nathaniel Allen and his family on the trip to Texas. Mary's husband was a planter with an unspecified number of slaves, but she brought none of them to Texas with her. With her were her children; her youngest was an infant in arms. Her eldest Andrew Jackson was 16 years of age. She is buried in the far northeast corner of her property.
Mary Ann was the 1st woman to receive a land grant in Texas.
In 1834 after the death of her husband John, Mary Ann was a widow of some means whose promise of her future lay in her 7 sons. Mary's husband John died in St Helena Parish, Louisiana about the same time her sister Penelope Williams-Allen. It is believed that Mary Ann traveled in the same party as her sister's husband Nathaniel Allen and his family on the trip to Texas. Mary's husband was a planter with an unspecified number of slaves, but she brought none of them to Texas with her. With her were her children; her youngest was an infant in arms. Her eldest Andrew Jackson was 16 years of age. She is buried in the far northeast corner of her property.
Mary Ann was the 1st woman to receive a land grant in Texas.
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