W. C. Black and Ellen Pearson

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Husband W. C. Black ¹

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           Born: 13 Dec 1843 - Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: A. H. P. Black (      -1865) 2
         Mother: Mary E. (Eliza?) Christley (      -1864) 3

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       Marriage: 9 Apr 1868 1

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Wife Ellen Pearson ¹

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         Father: William W. Pearson (      -Bef 1888) 1
         Mother: Sophronia Loveland (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Grace Black ¹

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General Notes: Husband - W. C. Black

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He was educated in the common schools and at New Wilmington College. He taught two terms of common school, and then followed farming. He settled on his farm of 180 acres at the time of his marriage. He made a specialty of raising fine stock. He enlisted in Company D, Two Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served nine months, and was in the battles of Fort Steadman and Petersburg. Mr. and Mrs. Black were members of the Center Presbyterian Church, of which he was a ruling elder. He was a Republican.

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 933.

2 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 934.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 933, 934.