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Subject: Re: Lucy Black
Date: 1 Oct 2004 15:36:16 -0600

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Surnames: BLACK, WELLMAN
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This may be helpful:

Iowa Delaware and Buchanan Counties 1890 Vol II pages 466 and 467: The subject was Oscar Wellman. There was a very in depth biography of Oscar and told of both his father, Leumuel and mother, Lucy Black.

"The mother of the subject of this notice was Lucy (Black) Wellman, who was born in Vermont in the year 1796. She was the mother of eight children, seven boys and one one girl, six of whom are now living. She was a kind mother and a consistent christian, for many years a member of the Methodist church and strove to rear her children in the paths of honesty and virtue. Her long and useful life came to an end in 1868. (This difers from Thomas Wellman 1918 book)

The christian name of the maternal grandfather Black in unknown. He was a native of New England and was a miller and farmer by occupation. He was appointed tax collector about the time of the promulgation f the Declaration of Independence, and having collected the tax and continental money, which soon became worthless on his hands, he was compelled to make good the amount, which took all the property he had, including two grist-mills and a farm. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was rewarded for his bravery by being promoted to the position of captain of the company which he entered as a private. The maternal ancestry came from Ireland, but it is not known at what date."

Hope this helps some!!
Patti

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