Brief Life History of Newell Spencer
When Newell Spencer Black was born on 14 August 1914, in Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States, his father, Edward Lenox Black, was 46 and his mother, Pearl Adell Kimball, was 37. He married Venna Wright Parkinson on 16 September 1943, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to World in 1941 and lived in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 5 years. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 23 May 2002, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Newell Block, "United States 1950 Census"
- Newell Spencer Black, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Newell Spencer Black, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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1937 · The Neutrality Act
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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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Newell Spencer Black's Engagement Story
Marilyn Staffieri Sun, Aug 29, 3:41 PM (8 days ago) to me Dear Eileen, I thought I would take my pen and jot down a few of the events that led to my meeting and marrying your lovely mother. I cam …
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