Squire William Black and Margaret M. Cross

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Husband Squire William Black ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: Sep 1810 - Marion Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1891 3
         Buried:  - Rocky Springs Cemetery, Marion Twp, Butler Co, PA

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         Father: John Black (1770-1832) 4 5 6 7 8
         Mother: Jane Criswell (1775-1864) 5 6 8

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Isabella Mitchell (1817-Aft 1851) 1 2 9

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Wife Margaret M. Cross ¹

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Children

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1 F Mary Elizabeth Black ^{1 2}

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           Died: Aft 1909
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         Spouse: Leander Adams (1848-      ) 10
           Marr: 10 Sep 1874 2

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2 M Washington Ellsworth Black ^{1 2}

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General Notes: Husband - Squire William Black

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When about nine years of age, he first attended school, which was taught by David C. Cunningham, in the old Unity Church. After availing himself still further of such limited educational advantages as the schools of that day afforded, he attained to manhood's years. He was a consistent and prominent member of Unity United Presbyterian Church. Until 1861, he was a Democrat, and supported John C. Breckenridge for the Presidency; but at the commencement of the war of the rebellion he identified himself with the Republican party. He has been three times elected as a Republican Justice of the Peace in a Democratic stronghold. [HBC 1883, 436]

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret M. Cross

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Her parents were among the most prominent of the early settlers of Slippery Rock Township, Butler Co, PA.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 436.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1282.

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

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 35.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 430.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1304.

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

8 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 53.

9 Karen S. Golden Rodgers, The Mitchell Family 1772 - 1989 (Self-published, 1990), Pg 3.

10 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1281.