When John Hastings Black was born on 23 August 1842, in Schuyler, Illinois, United States, his father, James Partlow Black, was 36 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Padgett, was 32. He married Telitha Parke on 17 April 1862, in Rushville, Schuyler, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Concord Township, Adams, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Woodstock Township, Schuyler, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 22 September 1908, in Schuyler, Illinois, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Rushville, Schuyler, Illinois, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesJohn Hastings Black John H. Black, a prominent citizen of Woodstock township, is a representative of one of the earliest families of Schuyler county, and is entitled to a space in this history. He was …
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