Brief Life History of Edith Blanche
When Edith Blanche Black was born on 7 January 1890, in Page, Iowa, United States, her father, Robert Fulton Black, was 26 and her mother, Anna Pearl Safford, was 20. She married Leslie Herman Brown on 7 May 1918, in Creston, Union, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Spencer, Clay, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Creston, Union, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 14 November 1976, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lenox, Taylor, Iowa, United States.
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Sources (16)
- Edith B Black in household of Robert Black, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Edith Blanch Black, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Edith Blanche Brown, "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002"
Spouse and Children
1889–1926 Male
1890–1976 Female
Children (1)
1920–1937 Male
Parents and Siblings
1863–1932 Male
1869–1947 Female
Siblings (3)
1890–1976 Female
1893–1950 Male
1903–2000 Female
World Events (8)
1893 · The Minnesota State Flag
Age 3
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 6
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
Age 23
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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