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From: "Wilma Norton" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Nancy J. Black - Wilma
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 22:54:31 -0700
References: <001501c31687$95633a10$6d2ee542@geneology1> <032501c316a8$b0de95c0$6601a8c0@D388LL11>


The doctor was Abraham Blair Black, born 1857, this is Abraham L. Black born
1833 and he died during the war 1864. I don't have a location of where he
died. The death date was from J.K.P. Black's family Bible. I haven't tried
to get his military papers. You're right - it is a big puzzle.

Wilma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernie Moore-Knowles" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Nancy J. Black - Wilma


> Wilma
>
> I had thought about that Abraham Black...........he was a doctor, wasn't
he?
> Remember a couple of days ago, I asked you about him? I thought that he
had
> perished during the War - but, I did not have an exact year of death and
> thought the possibility that he might have made it home and lived within a
> year after being home. You know.........that type of time frame.
>
> Sure is puzzling, this Nancy Black - but, her family will surface sooner
or
> later. But, drives you crazy, doesn't it? LOL
>
> If Nancy's mother was a Trimble, as far as I can surmise - Harriett is the
> only one that could have given birth to her within a marriage. I see the
> land records for Harriett and realize that up to the 1866, she was listed
as
> a Wren. But, IF Nancy is hers..........we only have an approximate date
of
> 1866 for the child.
>
> If Harriett had given birth in the year 1866, she would have been
> approximately 43 years of age. There is the real possibility that she
died
> in childbirth. Do you think? Or does someone have a death date for her?
>
> Odds are is she did either remarry or die in 1866. Land records with her
> name of Harriett Wren stop at that time, don't they? And that is the year
> that we think this Nancy J. Black was born.
>
> Do you have any military information on Abraham Black to know whether he
did
> make it back home and lived even a very short time?
>
> What a great puzzle.
>
> Bernie Moore-Knowles
> Phoenix, Arizona - Papa'aola, Hawai'i
>
>
> "I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to
> question my honesty." ........Will Rogers
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wilma Norton" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:03 PM
> Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Nancy J. Black
>
>
> > I've been looking and looking at all my Black family information, and
the
> only person I can come up with that might be Nancy's father is Abraham L.
> Black, son of Thomas and Mary T. Byler Black. He would have been about 10
> years younger than Harriet Trimble Creswell Wren. He was born 1833 and
died
> in the Civil War in 1864. So if they married, they conceived Nancy J. and
> he went off to war and he died before she was born. I'm not saying this
is
> correct, just that it would be possible.
> >
> > It seems strange to me that John Newton Trimble, having had a family
with
> Mary Cooper and the children all raised when she died in March 1879, would
> have taken in a 14 year old niece when there must have been other
relatives
> to care for her. But, he also had his first wife's mother and brother
> living with him and his second wife, so maybe not so strange.
> >
> > The fact that Harriet Wren is listed in the Izard Co. Tax Records in
1861,
> 1865 and 1866 also makes it hard to believe she married a Mr. Black and
had
> Nancy J. As far as I can tell, no one has found Harriet with a daughter
> named Nancy J. Black. Where did the information that Harriet was the
mother
> originate from? Does anyone know.
> >
> > Wilma
> >
> >
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