Brief Life History of Joseph Smith
When Joseph Smith Black was born on 14 July 1836, in Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland, his father, William Black, was 51 and his mother, Jane Johnston, was 35. He married Nancy Cynthia Allred on 12 November 1855, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Spring City, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860 and Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 13 August 1910, in Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Deseret City Cemetery, Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States.
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Sources (114)
- Joseph S Black, Birth, "Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900"
- Joseph Black in household of Jane Black, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- J. S. Black in entry for Roland Black and Harriet Leavitt, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
Spouse and Children
1836–1910 Male
1843–1919 Female
Children (11)
1863–1950 Female
1865–1944 Male
1867–1947 Female
1869–1874 Female
1871–1960 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1784–1873 Male
1801–1890 Female
Siblings (5)
1823–1872 Male
1825–1846 Female
1832–1927 Male
1836–1910 Male
1850–1873 Female
World Events (8)
1843
Age 7
1850 · Belle Vue Gaol Opens
Age 14
1858 · Halle Orchestra Give First Performance
Age 22
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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EXPERIENCES OF A PIONEER MOTHER By Edward L. Black
I have read with interest the biographical sketches of our pioneer mothers and grandmothers’ lives that have appeared in the Deseret News. How true is the statement: “The hand that rocks the cradle …
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