Giddeon Dane Black

Brief Life History of Giddeon Dane

When Giddeon Dane Black was born on 15 June 1905, in Washington, Virginia, United States, his father, Alfred McChesney Black, was 33 and his mother, Martha Eveline Johnson, was 36. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Ivory Mae Bolen. He lived in United States in 1949 and Besoco, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States in 1950. He died on 11 April 1969, in Raleigh, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 63.

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Family Time Line

Giddeon Dane Black
1905–1969
Ivory Mae Bolen
1919–1998
Barbara Ellen Black
1939–
Gid Dane Black Jr
1941–1993
Earnest Black
1942–1996

Sources (14)

  • Gid D Block, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Gid Dane Black, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
  • Gid Dane Black, "West Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility

Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War  the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

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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