Lucy Ann Black

Brief Life History of Lucy Ann

When Lucy Ann Black was born on 5 May 1845, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Black, was 32 and her mother, Martha, was 32. She married Gilbert Davis Goldsmith III on 27 February 1862, in Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Ursa, Adams, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Nebraska, United States in 1870. She died on 11 November 1879, in Cass, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Wortman Cemetery, Cass, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Gilbert Davis Goldsmith III
1840–1924
Lucy Ann Black
1845–1879
Marriage: 27 February 1862
Willie Gouldsmith
1862–1864
Emma Abigail Goldsmith
1865–1949
Mary Lavina Goldsmith
1868–1961
Charles Gilbert Goldsmith
1870–1951
Rose Ann Goldsmith
1872–1924
Altha Elizabeth Goldsmith
1875–1965
Fanny Pearl Goldsmith
1877–1949

Sources (16)

  • Lucy A Black in household of John Black, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Lucy Ann Black - Church record: Cemetery record or headstone: birth: 5 May 1845; Kentucky, United States
  • Lucy A Block, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

World Events (8)

1848 · Chicago Board of Trade is organized

Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.

1850 · 8th Most Populated State

According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.

1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World

William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.

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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