When Alvin Parker Black was born on 11 February 1924, in Tuscumbia, Colbert, Alabama, United States, his father, Bruce Black, was 24 and his mother, Ollie Mae Lemons, was 22. He married Jane Davis Lewey on 15 May 1945, in Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 2 Tuscumbia, Colbert, Alabama, United States in 1940 and Pride, Colbert, Alabama, United States for about 1 years. He died on 31 July 2013, in Tuscumbia, Colbert, Alabama, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Shoals Memorial Gardens, Tuscumbia, Colbert, Alabama, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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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