Samuel N Black

Brief Life History of Samuel N

When Samuel N Black was born on 2 June 1815, in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Black Jr., was 39 and his mother, Margaret "Peggy" Meek, was 39. He married Judith E Grier on 3 June 1840. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Cabarrus, Cabarrus, North Carolina, United States in 1850. He died on 1 December 1855, at the age of 40, and was buried in Coddle Creek ARP Church Cemetery, Mooresville, Iredell, North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel N Black
1815–1855
Judith E Grier
1816–1867
Marriage: 3 June 1840
Corp R Grier Black
1840–1862
Calvin M Black
1841–
Olivia Black
1844–1848
Black
1845–1845

Sources (4)

  • Samuel N Black, "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 "
  • Samuel N Black, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Black -

World Events (7)

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. 

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

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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