William Harrison Black and Sarah Jane Purvis

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Husband William Harrison Black ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1846 - Marion Twp, Butler Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Apr 1875
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA 3

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         Father: John Black, Esq. (      -1889) 4 5 6
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Sarah Jane Purvis ^{2 7}

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           Born: Abt 1847
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 May 1883
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA 3

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         Father: Samuel G. Purvis, Esq. (1808-1879) 7 8 9 10
         Mother: Elizabeth Logan (      -1892) 9 10 11

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - William Harrison Black

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On the outbreak of the rebellion, he enlisted in Company D, Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves, and served three years in the war. On his return home, he read law, and was admitted to practice at the Butler bar on the 14th of June, 1869. He soon gained prominence and secured a lucrative practice. He married a Miss Purvis, a daughter of Samuel Purvis, Esq., of the bar of Butler, and gave promise of a happy and prosperous life. But consumption soon came and blasted his otherwise promising professional life. [HBC 1883, 70]

He enlisted October 12, 1861, in Company H, Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry. He passed through the battles of Stone River, TN, Chickamauga, GA, Mission Ridge, the Atlanta campaign, and all the engagements in which the regiment took part, and was mustered out, with his company, November 4, 1864. [HBC 1883, 431]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 70.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1111.

3 —, Butler County Cemetery Inventory, Vol. 3 - North Cemetery (Butler, PA: Butler County Historical Society, 1984?), Pg 13.

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

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

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

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 70, 170X.

8 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 728.

9 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 641, 1111.

10 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 945.

11 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 170X.