Gertrude Black

Brief Life History of Gertrude

When Gertrude Black was born on 10 March 1892, in Comanche, Texas, United States, her father, Isaac Parker Black, was 30 and her mother, Inez Louise (Lula) Staples, was 29. She had at least 5 daughters with Ola Richard Chandler. She lived in Ward Four, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States in 1940 and San Pablo, Contra Costa, California, United States for about 1 years. She died on 23 April 1979, in Texarkana, Miller, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 87.

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Family Time Line

Ola Richard Chandler
1896–1960
Gertrude Black
1892–1979
Ruth Alexandra Thatcher Chandler
1914–2006
Ella Gertrude Chandler
1922–2010
Frances Louise Chandler
1924–2014
Patsy Virginia Chandler
1925–2021
Ola Elizabeth Chandler
1928–

Sources (4)

  • Gertrude Chandler, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Gertrude Chandler, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Gertrude Chandler, "United States Census, 1930"

World Events (8)

1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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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