Alexander Black

Birth Date

1833-01-27

Death Date

1926-03-24

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Knox County, Kentucky, laborer and merchant. Kentucky native. Son of John C. Black and Clarissa Black. Married to Mary Jane Smith Black in Knox County, Kentucky, on February 23, 1865. Father of Elizabeth Black. Laborer in Knox County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Knox County in 1850. Merchant in Laurel County, Kentucky, in 1863.

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.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Subdivision 93, p. 429B.
"Alexander "Alex" Black (1833-1926)," Find A Grave, Memorial #73504365, accessed January 28, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73504365.
"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.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Laurel County, KY, June 1863, p. 38.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994044, Knox County Marriages, p. 189.

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