Lula Mae Black

Female20 September 1919–7 February 1999

Brief Life History of Lula Mae

When Lula Mae Black was born on 20 September 1919, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, Homer Howard Black, was 23 and her mother, Eunice Edna Vawter, was 22. She had at least 1 daughter with Carl Alfred Holmes Jr. She lived in Bethany, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. She died on 7 February 1999, in Mountain Home, Baxter, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 79.

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Family Time Line

Carl Alfred Holmes Jr
1925–2005
Lula Mae Black
1919–1999
Donna Lu Holmes
1953–2021

Sources (6)

  • Lula M Black in household of Harinierd Black, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Lula Mae Holmes in entry for Delbert E Black, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Lula M Block in household of Howard H Block, "United States Census, 1930"

Spouse and Children

Children (1)

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (3)

World Events (8)

1920

Age 1

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1920 · The Detroit Wall

Age 1

The Detroit Wall is a half mile long wall that was constructed to serve as a wall of racial separation as a physical barrier between white and black homeowners in northwest Detroit. Today the wall is mostly gone with only a small portion of it located at a local park.

1941

Age 22

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

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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