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From: Mary Black <>
Subject: [BLACK-L] Joseph Penn Black
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 00:33:59 -0700

Posted on: BLACK Queries
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Surname: Black, Dimmick
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I am searching for the parents and siblings of JOSEPH PENN BLACK born around
1832 in IL. Per the 1870 census, his father was from KY and mother from
OH. A family elder beleives that the first name of Joseph's father may
have been Benjamin. Joseph Penn Black married Lucy Jane Dimmick in 1854
in White Oak Springs, Wis. and the marriage cert. listed Joseph as a farmer
at that time. I know from the census that Joseph and Lucy moved to Jo Daviess
Co. IL sometime before 1860. Joseph's marriage cert. and the March 3, 1900
Alton, IL newspaper obit. did not mentioned his parents names which leaves
me to believe they may have been dead by 1854. Joseph and Lucy had six
children as follows: George Albert, Leonra D., Joseph Penn Jr., Harvey
L., Benjamin E. (my grandfather) and Lucy Jane. I know from a diary he
kept that Joseph was in California in 1850 and 1851 working a gold mine
he would have been about 18 years of age. Do you think your Benjamin Blair
Black may have been related to my Joseph Penn Black? Did any of your Black
family migrate to IL?

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