Isaac R. Youngblood

Panola County TXGenWeb draws on Don Austin's book 42 Lost Cemeteries and on Leila B. LaGrone for Youngblood's story. In 1846, the year the county formed, he was named overseer of a section of the Shreveport-to-Douglass road, which FM 124 closely follows. LaGrone gave his death as on or about November 27, 1861, and his burial as in a family plot beside his house. The plot holds an estimated four or five unmarked graves on private property, and no trace of the mounds remains. The well story is legend, which the page does not confirm.

What the plaque says

Isaac R. Youngblood Panola County pioneer Isaac R. Youngblood was born about 1793. He and his wife, Elizabeth, moved to Texas from Washington County, Georgia, before 1846. In 1847 the county commissioners named him overseer of Grand Bluff Road and part of a team to lay out a new road. In 1858 he deeded two acres of land at this site for a school and church. Use of a nearby spring was also granted in the deed. According to tradition, Youngblood died when he fell into his 90-foot well. He was not buried in Youngblood Cemetery, but in an unmarked grave in a family pot 1/4 mile away. (1984)

Where it stands

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