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Subject: [BLACK-L] Black - Do you recognize This Historical Sketch
Date: 14 Jul 2001 13:41:02 -0600
I have the following Historical info left from old family papers!
If anyone recognize's this we might be related!
I am copping it as it was written:
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In the succession of generations it would be in be indeed gratifying to those living to be able to trace by authentic written record, their genealogy back through many generations. Comparatively few families process such records. With most families the chain of family history is broken with only two or three generations preceding. We conjure our memories and imaginations to help us to know more of our ancestors - Their names, their family relations their home life, their traits of character and ect.
But most of this is lost to us in the dim past, or is held only by uncertain traditions. For much more satisfactory authentic written records would be.
For our present sketch we find from written record that JOHN BLACK, Senior father of the subject of this sketch, was born, probably in Maryland, Mar 1, 1775.
This was only a short time before the battle of Lexington, the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
His wife, Elizabeth (Johnson?) Black was born, probably in Maryland, June 15,1779. What a long, long time ago!
One hundred and fifty, years ago, and yet only about half way back to the time of the landing of the pilgrims or the founding of Maryland by the (Galvents?).
The first date of their marriage is given as Feb. 24, 1800.
John Robert Black, the fourth child in this family of three sons and two daughters was born in Emmittsburg, Frederick County, Maryland, Sept 7 1810.
The Father died when John was only a few years old and the family was left in humble circumstances. When a boy in his teens he was apprenticed to a blacksmith to learn the trade.
He served as an apprentice five years receiving as pay his instruction, his experience, his clothes, a horse and saddle.
He worked one year longer with the same blacksmith for wages.
A little less than a year after the birth of John R. Black in Emmittsburg, Maryland, July 30, 1811.
Hannah (SPANGLER) was Born in Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
She was next to the youngest of a large family. Her father was a Tavern - Keeper in Mercersburgh.
so these two ypung people grew up, fate or the circumstances of life, brought them together and an acquaintance was begun which culminated in their marriage, May 1,1834.
They began the battle of life together which should end after each had passed the age of fourscore years. They were stroug of body and mind actuated by noble ideas and aspirations. They achnowledged god in all their undertakings and sought his guidance and were sinally blessed through a happy companionship of more than fifty - eight years.
For a few months, probably a year, after their marriage he worked at his trade in Emmittsburg, Maryland, living with his mother.
Here there first child, a son - CALVIN - was born,
Feb 27, 1835. Not long after this they moved to Frazeysburg, Mushingum County, Ohio, not far from Gainsville. Here they lived on a small farm of fourty acres which he had bought. He continued to work at his trade in addition to his farm work. A second son, JOHN was born in 1837 while they lived there.
The tide of emigration from the older eastern states to the newer western states which had been going on for several years, stirred these young people to a desire for better surroundings and greater advantages for a fuller, more successful life, not only for themselves but also for their posterity. So they sold the little farm in Ohio and in the fall of 1840 came by wagon to Indiana.
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