Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Black was born on 8 February 1826, in Ohio, United States, his father, Robert Black, was 32 and his mother, Mary Schickel, was 39. He married Matilda C. Gunterman on 10 August 1845, in Harrison, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Harrison, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Posey Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States in 1910. He died on 4 February 1912, in New Albany, Floyd, Indiana, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Elizabeth, Posey Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States.
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- Robert Black in household of Elmer Black, "United States Census, 1910"
- Robert Black, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Robert Black, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
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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