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Subject: [BLACK-L] Dr. Thomas C. Black Yazoo Co., MS 1843 tax roll
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:05:37 EDT

Hello all,

I just joined this list today in hope that it might help me to solve a puzzle
which has several of us baffled with regard to the subject, Dr. Thomas C.
Black. I have practically no knowledge of him other than the following:

One Jeremiah Walker left his will, probated October 1842 in Yazoo, Co., MS, in
which he makes the request that he be buried next to his wife, ZEBIAH, in the
T.C. Black Burying Ground. A Doctor Thomas C. Black was listed on the 1843
tax roll for Yazoo Co. but his name does not appear in any of the censuses
for Yazoo or surrounding counties from the period, 1830 to 1850. Local Yazoo
legend states that Dr. Black had a burying ground where he buried his indigent
patients. (but where?). He possibly buried members of his own family there as
well. This would imply that Zebiah Walker was somehow related to Dr. Black.

Jeremiah and Zebiah Walker had three known sons, M. LAFAYETTE, b. abt. 1814;
DEMOSTHENES, b. 1820 , d. 1859 (he was editor of the Yazoo Co. Democrat in
1850) and CICERO, b. abt. 1822, d. May 12, 1843 at age 21. Their only
daughter was named HELEN Jane. These are unusual names for male Walkers which
indicate the influence of a classical education background in either Jeremiah
or Zebiah's family. Given the fact that Zebiah and Jeremiah were buried in
the Dr. Thomas C. (Cicero?) Black cemetery, it stands to reason that Zebiah
was possibly the good doctor's daughter and had been amply exposed to her
father's classic Greek library.

Do any of you list members have anything on this Black family who could easily
have migrated (over a period of years) from Virginia or the Carolinas to
Mississippi or the eastern "toe" of LA in the early pioneer day period
(1815-1820)?? Any and all tips will be most gratefully received.

Frank R. Trowbridge

Dum Spiro Spero!

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