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From: Gordon Case <>
Subject: [BLACK-L] Andrew Jackson Black 1827 TN
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:20:42 -0800

My Black Blank Wall:
Born somewhere in Tennessee, about 1827, was one Andrew Jackson Black,
who was a school teacher and
preacher. A. J. Black married Mahaley Blair in Benton County Alabama, in
1846. Mahaley was born in Tennessee about 1824, and I'm still vague about
her background:

There is no doubt that the Andrew J. Black and Mahaley Blair married in
Benton county are my
ancestors, but there is an entry in the LDS IGI by another desendent,
indicating her maiden name was
Whiteside. Mahaley was about 22 when she married A. J., which was
somewhat old for those days when girls
normally were married at 15. It's possible she was born a Whiteside,
married a Blair, and was a widow
when she married A. J. Black??.

Andrew Jackson Black and Mahaley had a daughter, Sarah Percy Black,
born in Alabama in 1847, and shortly therafter
they migrated to Arkansas. They are in AR for the 1850 census, and
had moved to Hot Springs County for the 1860 and 1970 census. A. J. and
Mahaley had another daughter, Alice Black, born in Hot Springs, Arkansas
about 1867.

Sarah Percy Black married Charles Edward Spencer, (my great grandparents) in
Hot Springs, and migrated to Texas by the 1900 census.
I can find no leads on either A.J or Mahaley's parentage, and have lost them
after the 1870 census.

Gordon Case
Oakland, CA

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