Brief Life History of Mary Catherine
When Mary Catherine Black was born on 10 June 1840, in Tippah, Mississippi, United States, her father, Phinley N. Black, was 26 and her mother, Angaline L Howell, was 27. She married Jesse S. Shands on 17 January 1861, in Tippah, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 20 February 1872, in Dexter, Stoddard, Missouri, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Dexter, Stoddard, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Mary Black in household of Ansy Black, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary Black, "Mississippi, Tippah County Marriages, 1858-1979"
- Mary C Shands, "Find A Grave Index"
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Children (6)
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World Events (5)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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