Josiah B. Black and Emma Burke

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Husband Josiah B. Black ¹

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           Born: 6 Jul 1847 - Marion Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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           Died: 2 Sep 1907
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA 3

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         Father: James Black (1808-Aft 1895) 4 5 6
         Mother: Nancy A. Russell (Abt 1814-Aft 1879) 4 7 8

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       Marriage: 19 Nov 1884 9

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Wife Emma Burke ⁹

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           Born: 1852
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           Died: 1924
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA 3

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         Father: Rev. Edmund Burke (      -1890) 9
         Mother: Marie Cheney (1833-1903)

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Children

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1 F Kate Black ⁹

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2 F Maude Black ⁹

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3 M James E. Black ⁹

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General Notes: Husband - Josiah B. Black

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He attended the schools of his native township until the age of fourteen and then went to Clarion County, Pennsylvania, where he learned the tanner's trade with John Reynolds. In 1863 he enlisted in Company D, Fifty-seventh Penn­sylvania Militia, and served six weeks. He subsequently entered the employ of James Callery, a tanner of Pittsburgh, with whom he was employed until Febru­ary 25, 1864, when he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close of the war, being discharged July 14, 1865. Returning to Franklin in 1865, he soon after located at Pithole, Venango County, and engaged in the oil business, after which time he followed oil producing and contracting in the oil fields of Pennsylvania and New York.
He was chairman of the borough council in 1891-92, when the streets and sewer improvements were made. He was P. M. of Butler Lodge, Num­ber 272, F. & A. M., was a member of Butler Chapter Number 278, Tancred Commandery, Number 48, and Consistory of Pittsburgh, and was connected with A. G. Reed Post, G. A. R., the I. O. O. F., K. of P., and B. P. O. E. He took an active interest in political and public affairs, and was a stanch adherent of the Republican party.

He enlisted in the Pennsylvania State Militia at the time of John Morgan's Ohio raid, in 1863, and served during the time the militia was in service. On the 25th of February, 1864, however, he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Pennsylvania Infantry. He passed through the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and the final campaign which resulted in Lee's surrender, and was mustered out with his regiment July 14, 1865. [HBC 1883, 431]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 825, 1306.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 825.

3 —, Butler County Cemetery Inventory, Vol. 3 - North Cemetery (Butler, PA: Butler County Historical Society, 1984?), Pg 1.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 492.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1305.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 541.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1306.

8 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 254.

9 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 826.