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Subject: [BLACK-L] Surname: Black, Vermilion County, Illinois.
Date: 22 Jul 2002 19:16:55 -0600

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I found this information on two families named BLACK, in
a book, the HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
Published by BECKWITH in 1879. The historical Society in
Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. Is now reprinting this
Book which I understand will be indexted.
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This information is for any one who is researching these
Surname: Black Families, You can search in Danville, Vermilion county Illinois for any further information.

The following are excerpts from the Book
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James H. Black, farmer. We were directed to Mr. Black for the facts in regard to the early history of this country. It
certainly was fortunate, for few men are better acquainted
with the early history than he. He was among the first to
venture on these parairies, and has lived to see their
development in a marvelous way. Mr. Black was born in
Burbon County, Kentucky, on the 6th of January, 1814.
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His father was a farmer, and was born in the same county. His father came to Indiana while that was yet a terrority,
to where Wayne County now is. This was in 1814 or 1815.
The family came to Warren County in 1822 or 1823. At that
time they had to go South to mill about sixty miles. Mr.Black,Jr. remained in the neighborhood till 1856. Then he
came to where he now lives. He bought two hundred and forty acres of land, and has lived here ever since.
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He was married in 1834 to Eliza Ann Odell, a native of
New York. They had seven boys and three girls,--only two
sons and two daughters now living. Four of the boys were
in the Army. Two of them died there. (Civil War). They also
had a son cruelly murdered in the State of Kansas by a man
who got into difficulty with him in regard of some kind.
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Mr. Black has divided up his land among his children, and
kept only eighty acres for his homestead. John Black, father of James H., was born in Kentucky about 1785. He
lived in Kentucky till he had four children, and then came West.
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After moving, as noted above, he cane to Mound Prairie in
1822 or 1823. He was the third house there. The first on
that Prairie was John A.Lewins, who had come in the Spring
of the same year. Thomas Cunningham had entered the land
previously, and came on with his family soon after.
Mr.Lewins' family arrived, and then in the fall of the same year came Mr.Black.
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Mr. Black also maintains that the first man at Perrysville
was Jacob Andrix. Soon afterward came George Hicks, who came
in West of Perrysville. Mr.Andrix's house was on the Indian
Trail from Fort Harrinson to Tippecanoe.
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If any of you know your History of the United States, then
you will recongize these names and what they represent.
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Another Surname; Black: Family
George Leslie and Silas Black, natives of Belfast,Ireland,
came to this country in October, of 1869. They first located in Indianapolis, and were engaged principally trading in
Real Estate--up to 1871, when they removed to Brazil, Clay
County, Indiana. There they were wngaged in dry-goods
business, with a branch house at Alexandria, in the same
county, where they handled dry-goods, Groceries, and
General Merchandise, and had, also charge of the Post-Office
at Alexandria.
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In these places they did the largest trade in the county up
to September, of 1877, when they felt compelled to look up
a location where they would have better facilities for the
extension of their business.
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They located here at Danville at 109 and 111 Main Street, in
the Giddings block, where they engaged in the dry-goods
business exclusively up to March of 1879, when they took
in an additional room, No. 113 Main Street, in which they
put a stock of groceries.
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These Three Rooms all communicated by means of Arches.
Taken as a whole, this business is one of the most extensive
in the State out side of Chicago, doing a business of
over $65,000 per year.
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Their parents, John and M.E.Black, are natives of Belfast,
Ireland. Mr. john Black engaged principally in Loaning
Money, being a member of a Loan Fund Society of which he
has been a Director for over thirty years.
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All the members of the Firm of Black Brothers have extensive
experience in the dry-goods business in Belfast.
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Silas Black, the Junior member of the Firm, was a Student of
the Queen's College, Belfast, Ireland, for four years:
Also of the Indiana Medical College and College of physicians and Surgeons, of Indiana, of which latter he is
a graduate, with honor, in token of which he obtained a
Fifty-Dollar Medal. He is not a practicing Physician.
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This Book was published in 1879, Beckwith, You can contact
the Histrocial Society, or Library, or RootsWeb Volunteers
in Danville, Vermilion County for futher information, City directorys, Etc:

Hope this helps some one, searching the Surname Black. and
Lewins,Cunningham, Hicks, Andrix.

Donald B. Jeakins
Fallon, Nevada.

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