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From: "Richard L. McReynolds" <>
Subject: Fw: NC, Rowan County, Calvin Black
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:00:05 -0600


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard L. McReynolds <>
To: Ron Moore <>
Date: Monday, December 29, 1997 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: NC, Rowan County, Calvin Black

>Sure was a surprise to see your name pop up on my query to the Black
surname
>page. I hope I can eventually link to one of the earlier generations of
the
>family but at this point I have little more than what I posted. I do know
>that Mary Cornelia Black(b. 18 April 1862) was married to John Stephen
>Adderton 2 Dec 1883. Descendants of this family live at High Point , NC.
>They sent me copies of the family bible pages which had my ggf's birthdate
>(J. M. Black) listed in his sister's family bible. I need a big break to
>make the next generation as I have not found a will, land records or
>anything that would make the link. The best possibility is a George Black
>on the basis of a Calvin Black of about the same age being the same
>household with his second wife Barsheba (but not Calvin's mother)in the
1850
>Davidson Co census. If you have any ideas, I would appreciate them. Hope
>you have a happy and prosperous 1998.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Moore <>
>To: Richard L. McReynolds <>
>Date: Saturday, December 27, 1997 12:01 AM
>Subject: Re: NC, Rowan County, Calvin Black
>
>
>>Richard
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>>I see that you monitor the Black list too! I have been watching for the
>Adam Black whose daughter, Catharine was married to John Black in North
>Carolina, son of Peter and Barbara (Martin) Mock. I believe they were in
>Rowan Co, NY. Could they have been related to your Black family from North
>Carolina?
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>><<Ron Moore>>
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>>At 08:08 PM 12/24/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>> If you have information on this family, please contact me.
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>> James Madison BLACK was born circa 1869 probably near Salisbury, Rowan
>County, North Carolina. He later assumed 1 January as his birthday because
>he did not know the actual date. His parents were Calvin and Betty BLACK.
>Very little is known of his parents or siblings because he was orphaned at
>age six. His obituary mentions three brothers and one sister but does not
>gives names. One brother was Robert Lee BLACK who lived in Chicago. The
1870
>census for Rowan County, Providence Township, NC lists a family which
>includes an entry for Elizabeth BLACK age 22, James BLACK age 2, and Calvin
>BLACK age 37, mill wright, deceased November (1869) of typhoid fever.
Others
>listed in the household were: Amanda BLACK age 28, Linza BLACK age 13,
>Cicero BLACK age 11, Nancy BLACK age 9 and Cornelia BLACK age 9. His father
>is thought to have been a Confederate veteran of the Civil War. After his
>parents died, James is thought to have lived with an uncle. The uncle
>promised him an education but instead worked him very hard. Because of this
>treatment, he left at an early age and began to support himself. He worked
>in the mines near Birmingham, Alabama. Later he attended business college
>and excelled in penmanship. He also learned carpentry. He moved to
>Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois in 1891. James Madison BLACK and Jane
>"Jennie" ATKINSON were married at 8 o'clock in the evening on 14 November
>1893 at the home of her father in Jacksonville.
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