I would also like a copy of the database.
William Black, born in Paisley, Scotland, in the year 1727, is my 4th Great
Grandfather. Moved with family to Cumberland Co, NS in 1775. I would be
interested if someone could send me a photo of his gravestone.
I have photos of the following Black's gravestones on my web site,
http://www.travisheritage.com/, ->Cemetery Photos->Old Burying Ground:
Black, Augusta
Black, Josiah
Black, Hibbert
Black, Martha E (Miner)
Black, Matilda (Anderson)
Black, Mary (Freeze)
Black, Mary (Freeze) - marker
Black, Sophia (Travis)
Black, Thomas S
Black, Thomas S - marker
Black. William F
Steve Travis
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To:
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Subject: Re: [nscumber] Fw: [NS-L] Black
I've already sent Judy a database containing BLACK family from Cumberland
County.
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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 8:57 PM
Subject: [nscumber] Fw: [NS-L] Black
> Perhaps one of you can make a connection for Judy.
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> Apologies to anyone who gets this twice.
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> From: jryden
> To: NOVA-SCOTIA-L@...
> Sent: Sunday, 21 January 2001 2:47 PM
> Subject: [NS-L] Black
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> My g grandfather lived in Boston, MA USA for a while. His name was William
Black (we think). He married Anne Carroll and they had a son, William Alfred
Black in 1865. When that son was about 3 years old, Anne Carroll Black died.
The widower, William Black, then married again to Unknown and shortly
returned to Nova Scotia, (New Brundwick, we think).
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> Young William Alfred Black did not get along well with his step mother so
at age 13, he left home.
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> My mother wrote:
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> "He [William Alfred Black] worked at any job he could find, in logging and
mining camps, in wild west cattle towns, and learned to fight, to shoot and
to take care of himself. He became a two gun man, and could shoot with
either or both guns. Once when he was ambushed by a bunch of Mexican
banditos, he left several dead. His reputation was such that men knew he
wasn't to be pushed.. and he wouldn't back down!
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> The Gold Rush to Alaska led him north and in 1902 he came into Nome from
the gold fields and sat down in a black jack game. He played all night and
when he left the saloon in the morning he had run his $40-$50 stake into
$8,000, which in 1902 was a fortune. As he stepped into the street he heard
a boy calling.
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> "All aboard the last boat out, the Roymoke." Bill Black thought a minute
and decided that if he spent the winter in Nome he would lose all the money
he had just won so he asked the boy if he had time to get his things. The
boy said, "No, its leaving now." So Bill boarded the ship with only the
clothes on his back and $8,000 in his pocket. He went back to New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia to visit his father for the first time since he had left
over twenty years earlier. He paid off the mortgage on his father's farm
and after his visit went sight seeing."
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> The father of the above tale had only daughters, so there is no lasting
"Black" family in the area. I would like, however to find any of the
daughters of the William Black and second wife. Perhaps the story above is
enough of a clue to connect somewhere.
>
> --
> Judy Ryden
> jryden@...
> rmichael40@...
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~necass/
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~spratlen/sindex.htm
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