Husband Col. John A. Black 1 2 3
Born: 19 Aug 1828 - Mercer Twp, Butler Co, PA 2 4
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Died: Aft 1919
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Father: Robert C. Black (1804-1850) 1 2 3 5
Mother: Nancy Ann Kerr (1806-1892) 1 2 4
Marriage: 25 Dec 1851 4 6
Wife Margaret L. Kerr 4 6
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Father: Thomas B. Kerr ( - ) 6
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1 M Clarence B. Black 4 6
Born: Abt 1852
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Died: 13 Dec 1865 4 6
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 M Willis Morton Black 4 6
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Spouse: Anna H. Hazlett ( - ) 4
Marr: 6 Mar 1880 4
3 F Agnes Melinda Black 4 6 7 8
Born: - Livermore, Westmoreland Co, PA
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Died: Aft 1909
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Spouse: Dr. John Milton Scott (1849-Aft 1909) 6 7 8
Marr: 26 Sep 1872 7 8
4 F Carrie R. Black 4 6
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5 M Jessie L. Black 4 6
AKA: Jesse L. Black 9
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Spouse: Bertha E. Weaver ( - ) 4
Marr: 31 Jul 1891 4
6 M John Audley Black 4 6
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Spouse: Laura L. Owens ( - ) 10
Marr: 24 Dec 1896 10
General Notes: Husband - Col. John A. Black
He enlisted September 25, 1861, for three years, in Company B, Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry. After passing through the various grades of Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain and Major, he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of his regiment March 16, 1865, and was finally mustered out with his regiment July 1, 1865. He was seriously wounded at the battle of North Anna River, Virginia, May 21, 1864. [HBC 1883, 430]
He was reared on his father's farm and received his education in the old subscription schools of Pennsylvania, when they were in the last decade of their existence. His first employment was farming until nineteen years of age, after which he was engaged from 1847 to 1855 in railroading on the Portage road. In 1855 he returned to farming and was steadily engaged in that line until 1861, when he was rudely summoned from his rural life by the sounds of battle and his country's call for troops, to relieve the damaging effects of Bull Run and crush out of armed existence the spirit of rebellion. As an obscure private he passed from the farm to the tented fields, where he was to win promotion and honorable mention. On September 21, 1861, Col. Black enlisted as a private in Co. B, Fifty-sixth Pa. Vols., and served until July 1, 1865; he was then honorably mustered out of service with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He encountered all the hardships of a soldier's life, and was in the battle of Gettysburg and many others. At the battle of Gettysburg he was captured by the Confederates on the first of July and held prisoner four days, when his captors fell into the hands of the Union forces and he was restored to his company. For gallant conduct he was promoted in 1863 to second lieutenant on October 16, and became captain November 15 of the same year. He commanded a regiment under Meade and led it through the "Battles of the Wilderness," where it made an enviable record for bravery and faithful service. At the battle of "North Anna River," on May 23, 1864, Col. Black had his left arm shot to pieces in the very thickest of the carnage. His shattered arm disabled him from active service until March, 1865, when he was promoted to major, and on the next day commissioned lieutenant-colonel in recognition of his valuable services and distinguished bravery during Grant's march from the Rapidan to the North Anna. He remained in command of the Fifty-sixth until it was mustered out in July, 1865. He was offered the rank of colonel by brevet, but declined to receive it, as he purposed to retire from military life to civil pursuits. After the close of the war he engaged for several years in butchering. June 18, 1877, he was appointed mail agent on the Southwest Pennsylvania Railway, and held that position for five years. From 1882 to January 1, 1888, he was agent of Adams Express Company at Greensburg. In December, 1888, he was appointed tipstaff by Judge Hunter.
When the National Guards of Pennsylvania were organized he became successively captain of Co. B., lieutenant-colonel of one of the battalions and colonel of the Tenth regiment. He commanded this regiment in the Pittsburg labor riot of 1877, and is well remembered there for the firm but judicious manner in which he dealt with the crazed and riotous masses that blockaded the streets of the city. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Union Veteran Legion, and the Society of the Army of the Potomac. In politics he was a democrat until 1863. In that year, because the democrats opposed the right of the soldiers to vote, he left that party and joined the republicans. Col. Black served two terms as justice of the peace at Livermore, Pennsylvania, and was overseer of the poor for several years in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. [BHCWC 1890, 53]
He went west to Colorado, in 1896, with his daughter Carrie, and they each filed a claim on a quarter section of land in Elbert County, Colorado, and set about improving it. In 1897 Colonel Black purchased another quarter section of land, making his holding one of four hundred and eighty acres in one body. Here he made his home and cultivated the land until 1903, when he returned to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and purchased a home at Jeannette-Byers Park mansion-a stone structure then one hundred and forty-two years old, and which was considered one of the finest of the old country seats in the vicinity. He purchased, in 1904, a gas well located a short distance from his home, from which he received his supply of gas, and also supplied the surrounding neighborhood.
He was appointed storekeeper in 1868, and was stationed at the Overholts, Dillingers & Rabinians distillery, serving there for two and one-half years. In politics he was a Democrat until 1863. In that year the Democrats opposed the right of soldiers to vote, and Colonel Black severed his connection with that party and joined the ranks of the Republicans. He served two terms as justice of the peace at Livermore, Pennsylvania, and was overseer of the poor for several years in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.
Residing at Knox, Pennsylvania, in 1919.