Samuel Ether Black

Brief Life History of Samuel Ether

When Samuel Ether Black was born on 22 December 1889, in Huntington, Emery, Utah, United States, his father, John Morley Black, was 33 and his mother, Harriet Marinda Spencer, was 30. He married Lucy Jane Hancock on 11 April 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Colorado, United States in 1935 and Election Precinct 6 Bloomfield, San Juan, New Mexico, United States in 1940. In 1940, at the age of 50, his occupation is listed as laborer, flour mill in Bloomfield, San Juan, New Mexico, United States. He died on 24 December 1945, in Duchesne, Duchesne, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Ether Black
1889–1945
Lucy Jane Hancock
1899–1970
Marriage: 11 April 1917
Dorius Ether Black
1918–1985
Lucille Black
1920–2004
Clair H Black
1922–2009
Rex Joy Black
1923–1999
Alma June Black
1927–2017
Ireta Black
1930–2007
Mary Elizabeth Black
1934–2024

Sources (39)

  • Samuel Ether Black in household of John Morley Black, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Samuel E. Black, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • Samuel Ether Black, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1902

When Nephi Pratt assumed the presidency the mission was comprised of Washington, Montana, British Columbia, and Northern Idaho, with the mission headquarters at Spokane, Washington. The mission was comprised of three conferences: Butte, Anaconda, and Eastern Washington.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

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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Excerpt on Samuel Ether Black - "Our Black Family in America", Chester and Sarah Black.

"Samuel Ether Black's faith lives in memory as an inspiring example of a full, happy life, not in spite of, but including trials. He met hardships with a smile not of endurance, but of confidence tha …

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