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Subject: [BLACK-L] Elizabeth Black of Cherryville folk lore
Date: 2 Mar 2004 10:26:03 -0700

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I am looking for the background on Elizabeth Black who is credited with planting the cherry trees along the railroad tracks that lead to the city name. I think Black is not her maiden name and I know for a fact she had a daughter Sallie Elizabeth Black born in 1873 who married Marcus Maxwell Huss.

I cannot find where she is buried or identify for sure who her husband was. The only positive id from census info is in the 1920 census as Ebbie Black, 87 years old, and the mother in law of Marcus Huss. That would put her birth year at close to 1833.

My best guess is that she married Thomas Black and her maiden name was Elizabeth Brower. The 1860 census has a Thomas and Hetty at the right ages. The 1870 census confirms that Hetty was named Elizabeth. The 1880 census for Thomas Black has a younger wife named Holly, which could be Hetty with a wrong age, but there is no Sally who should be 7 at the time and the gap in child ages leads me to believe it was a different wife. Divorce was uncommon though and we know Elizabeth lived to a ripe old age.

I sure would like some help to sort this out.

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