Samuel Black

Birth Date

1831-02-04

Death Date

1919-04-03

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Knox County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John C. Black and Clarissa Black. Married to Margaret Baker Black in Knox County, Kentucky, on December 20, 1865. Father of General E. Black and William Black. Laborer in Knox County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Knox County in 1850. Farmer in Laurel County 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.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, District 005, p. 227B.
"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. 157.
"Samuel Black (1831-1919)," Find A Grave, Memorial #73505342, accessed January 28, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73505342.

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