14G.  Henry Aurel Youngblood was born in Van Buren County, Michigan, U.S.A., on Friday, June 19, 1891, and died in Kalamazoo Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, U.S.A., on October 19, 1954. Eleanor Quigley was born in Chicago, Illinois, on Saturday, January 6, 1894, and died in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, on May 4, 1974. They were married in South Haven, Van Buren County, Michigan, U.S.A., on Wednesday, July 8, 1914. She took the name Eleanor Youngblood. He is the son of Benjamin Franklin and Margaret Lydia (Tenbroeck) Youngblood. They had nine children:

i. Rita Aileen Youngblood [#14GA]: She was born in Chicago on April 29, 1915.
ii. Bernard Anthony Youngblood [#14GB]: He was born in South Haven, Van Buren County, Michigan, on May 27, 1916, and died in Kalamazoo on March 17, 1967.
iii. Marilyn Adelaide Youngblood [#14GC]: She was born in South Haven on October 27, 1918, and died in Illinois on August 24, 2000.
iv. Thomas Raymond Youngblood was born on October 14, 1920, and died in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., about 1925.
v. James Edward Youngblood [#14GE]: He was born in South Haven on May 25, 1923, and died in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, U.S.A., on January 24, 1984.
vi. Peter Quigley Youngblood [#14GF]: He was born in Chicago on June 11, 1927.
vii. Edward Harold Youngblood [#14GG]: He was born in Chicago on July 11, 1928, and died in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., on November 25, 2004.
viii. Henry Aurel Youngblood [#14GH]: He was born in Chicago on September 26, 1931.
ix. Walter Phillip Youngblood [#14GI]: He was born in Harvey, Illinois, on July 30, 1935, and died in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, on January 25, 2000.

The following was written by Henry's niece, Dorothy (Galbreath) Gilbert.

Henry Aurel Youngblood met and married beautiful Eleanor Quigley. She was a devout Roman Catholic from a wealthy family. How a poor country boy captured her I was never able to figure out. She knew about things like jewelry, china, silver, dining out, but she knew nothing about cooking. My grandmother often made unkind remarks about other people's ways that were different from those she was used to. Some incidents became family legends.

It is said that on his wedding night Uncle Henry sat up peeling potatoes for the next day. Once when the H. Youngbloods were eating with the B.F. Youngbloods, a skillet of fish was being fried. Henry, seated at the table asked if there weren't some gravy for his potatoes. Aunt "Nellie" always anxious to make herself useful, especially to please her Henry, got up and made gravy from the grease the fish were fried in. Nobody in the Youngblood family had ever done that. It was not well received.

Henry called her Nell. I called her Aunt Eleanor. She did say things that seemed to us to be pretentious. Words like "darling", "gorgeous", were not used by country folk. Henry and Eleanor went to live in Chicago. The only work he had that I know of was driving a taxi, but I'm sure he didn't start this immediately upon his arrival in the big city and keep it up all during the ensuing years until he returned to Michigan with his wife and seven kids. He treated us to a couple of inside quips like "toot your horn, Henry, here comes a train". He told the story of the alleged questions of his test for the chauffeur's license: "What does the green light mean?" "Go." "What does the red light mean?" "Stop." "What does the amber light mean?" "Go like hell to beat the red."

There was a time when the H. Youngbloods moved to the South Haven area, and Rita and "Bennie" went to the Jericho school with me. I thought their city ways extremely glamorous. They looked so chic compared with my country style. They ate such attractive foods from the delicatessen, store-bought cookies, cold cuts, made-up potato salad, bread from a bread factory. Everything we ate on the farm was home-grown and home-made.

I think when they left Chicago they first went to Denver where Eleanor Quigley's brother and sisters lived. I have been told that Thomas Quigley made an allowance to his sister Eleanor so that she could live in more comfortable circumstances than Henry's earnings would afford. The next thing I know after Denver they moved to Michigan. Henry and Eleanor bought or built a small house on the road in back of the Duffy property, near Mattawan, on Eagle Lake, Texas (in Michigan). Henry died in a Kalamazoo Hospital, Eleanor lived alone for a few years until she was unable to take care of herself. She then went to live in the Provincial House nursing home on 11th Street. She was brought in a wheelchair to one of the last Youngblood family reunions at Helen (Youngblood) Baker's place on Pine Lake.

In the records of Union Cemetery, Berrien Center, Henry's cause of death is recorded as Arteriosclerotic heart, acute coronary occlusion; Eleanor's (she is listed as "Ellen") is recorded as cardiac respiratory arrest. They are both buried in block A, lot 132, with his parents. She was buried on May 9, 1974.

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