Brief Life History of Christopher Harris
When Christopher Harris Black was born on 17 February 1816, in Madison, Kentucky, United States, his father, Joseph Black, was 21 and his mother, Frances Harris, was 22. He married Elizabeth Banta on 4 February 1840, in Platte, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ridgely, Platte, Missouri, United States in 1893. He died on 30 June 1901, in Platte, Missouri, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Ridgely Community Cemetery, Ridgely, Platte, Missouri, United States.
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- Christopher Black, "United States Census, 1860"
- Christopher Black, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Christopher Harris Black, "Find A Grave Index"
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1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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