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From: Linda McMillen <>
Subject: [BLACK-L] PETER BLACK - S. C.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:17:28 -0500

Any one working on this family line? Would like to share information.

Linda McMillen


Peter Black Family

Peter Black born in 1791 in S. C. died 18 August 1865 in Benton/Calhoun Co.
Alabama. He is buried in an unmarked grave in the White Plaines School
Cemetery in Benton Co. Alabama. He married Elizabeth Abney who was born in
1788 in S. C. and died after 1860 in Alabama. She is buried next to Peter
Black in the White Plaines School Cemetery in Benton Co. Alabama. She was
the daughter of Paul Abney and Elizabeth Hamilton.

Known Children:

1. Nancy Black born in Edgefield Dist. S. C. and died in 1835. She
married William Abney.

2. Peter Pickens Black born in Edgefield Dist. S. C. and died in 1864 in
the Civil War. He was Captain of the 10th Regt. of Alabama Volunteers Army
of Virginia. He left a will leaving his estate to his brothers and sisters.

3. Emeline Black born in Edgefield Dist. S. C. and married William James
Cook on 21 Dec. 1867 in Calhoun Co./Benton Co. Alabama.

4. Sopharonia S. Black born in 1819 in Edgefield Dist. S. C. and died
after 1880 in Texas. She married (1) Simeon Abney who died in 1835/36.
(2) She married John William Jones who was the son of John Jones Sr. of
Barbour Co. Alabama.

5. Wesley Mark Black was born in Edgefield Dist. S. C. He married Narcissa
E. Slayton. She was the daughter of Arthur
Slayton and Frances Evans.
Known Children:
a. Alexander W. b. 2 Nov. 1841 in Merriweather Co. Ga. and
married 18 Feb. 1868 to T. A. Shackleford.
b. Andrew Pickens Black b. in 1844 died in the Civil War
in 1864.

Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, p. 86

Alexander W. BLACK was born in Merriweather CO, GA, November 2,
1842 and is a son of Wesley Mark and Narcissa SLAYTON BLACK. His
father,(Wesley Mark BLACK) a leading farmer of the Empire State of the
South, moved to Alabama in 1844, continued farming and was elected Colonel
of the State militia. Both the colonel and wife were devout Christians but
were members of different denominations- he being a Methodist and she a
Baptist- but this fact did not mar the happiness of their home life. The
paternal Grandfather of Alexander W. was Peter BLACK, and his maternal
grandmother was Frances EVANS Slayton, of Georgia.
Alexander W. was educated at White Plains, Alabama and at the age
of seventeen enlisted in Company G. Tenth Alabama regiment, and served with
that company throughout the entire war. He took part at Sharpsburg,
Fredericksburg, second Manassas, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House,
seven days fight around Richmond, siege of Richmond, Petersburg and others.
In his first engagement a bullet passed through his hat, and at another his
knapsack was torn off by the explosion of a shell. His only brother, two
years younger, Andrew Pickens BLACK, served by his side until the battle of
the Wilderness, when the latter received five different wounds from which,
of course, he died.
Alexander came to Texas in 1865 and engaged in farming until 1884,
when he entered the hardware business at Blossom (Lamar CO) under the firm
name of Hutchinson and BLACK, and this popular firm is now doing the most
thriving business in its line that is transacted in that town.
February 18, 1868, Mr. Black married Miss T.A.Shackleford, of
Starksville, Texas, and his home is now brightened by the presence of six
children: Anna Willie, Oleander P., Travis R., Elizabeth, Eugene, and
Ernest Pellam. Mr. Black is a member of the Baptist church, while his wife
affiliates with the Methodists.

6. Daniel S. Black born 30 Oct. 1827 in Edgefield Dist. S. C. died 26
July 1900 in Benton Co. Alabama and is buried in the White Plaines School
Cemetery in Benton/Calhoun Co. Alabama. He married Julia A. Morgan on 20
Dec. 1855 in Benton Co. Alabama.

7. Lucinda Black b. in Edgefield Dist. S. C. married James Jones.

8. Whitefield Black born in Edgefield Dist. S. C.

9. William D. Black born in Edgefield Dist. S. C. married (1) Malinda E.
Hughes on 30 Oct. 1850 in Benton Co. Alabama and (2) Barthena Usry on 2
June 1857 in Benton Co. Alabama.

10. Francis T. B. Black born about 1833/35 in Edgefield Dist. S. C. and
living in Benton Co. Alabama in 1860

Peter Black ( b. 1791 and died 18 Aug. 1865) had a son out of wedlock with
Hepsa A. Champion (b. 1834 in Ga.) The son, John Wyly Champion was born
in 1863 in Calhoun Co. Alabama. In Old Records of Estates and
Administration Benton (Calhoun) Co. Alabama, Vol. II, "court petition filed
10 June 1866 for Bastardy Case proved child is illegitimate son of Peter
Black." After Peter Black's death in 1865, the heirs of the estate honored
the court settlement and paid Hepsa Champion the balance of the amount
stated by the court.

Other records show that John Wyly Champion b. in 1864 in Alabama married
Emma Rowan who was born in 1864 in Alabama. Their children were:
a. Ike Sean Champion b. 5 Apr. 1889 in Alabama married Willa Lou
Walker who was born 10 Oct. 1897 in Alabama.
b. Hessy Champion b. 1894 in Alabama and married Henry Smith who
was born in 1894
c. Walter Champion born 21 July 1907 in Alabama and married Martha
Jane Conner.

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