Isaac Jones Black

Birth Date

1828-08-05

Death Date

1866-10-22

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Knox County, Kentucky farmer, agent, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John C. Black and Clarissa Black. Married to Mildred Black. Father of John Black, Meala Black, and David Black. Laborer in Knox County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Knox County in 1850. Farmer in Knox County in 1860. Agent authorized to retrieve fugitive William Foster from Tennessee in 1861. Served in the 49th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant and captain from July 18, 1863, to December 26, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, p. 389A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, p. 135.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Payne, p. 69.
"An Act for the Benefit of Samuel Black and Isaac J. Black," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, Ky.: John B. Major, State Printer, 1861-1863), 218.
"Isaac Jones Black (1828-1866)," Find A Grave, Memorial #57887163, accessed June 27, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57887163.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 501.

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