Article Covers - Surnames
- Black
- Linhart
- Delavie
- McCullough
- Boren
- Places
- Pennsylvania
- Year range
- 1838 - 1915
Elizabeth was the sixth child and second daughter of 15 children
born to Samuel Black (Scotch-Irish) and Jane Mansperger Black
(German), and was named for her father’s brother’s wife Elizabeth
McCullough. At 23 she married Daniel Linhart. They lived in and
around Pittsburgh and had five children. Their son Samuel was
long-time secretary of the University of Pittsburgh. By all accounts
household life was strict, without overt displays of affection.
Daughter Bertie said, “Nothing that was fun was permitted in our
home,” and made sure the same could not be said of hers.
Granddaughter Lois recalled that Elizabeth was “a little bitty woman.
She was very valiant but she wasn’t very big, smaller than I am
and of course not so wide either.” She was a great hand with
flowers and her back-yard garden. She also taught Lois to sew.
After being widowed in 1893 she seems to have lived with the
family of daughter Mary Linhart Delavie in Pittsburgh and
Cleveland.
ELIZABETH MCCULLOUGH BLACK
born 8 May 1838 Pennsylvania
married 6 March 1862 Daniel Linhart, son of Michael Linhart and Hannah _____, born 18 Sep 1837 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, died 24 Mar 1893 Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
died 2 September 1915 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
ANCESTORS: We know her four grandparents but only three
of eight great-grandparents, plus the well-researched Mansperger
line before that.
COUSINS: Very many. Nine of Elizabeth’s fourteen siblings had
children: Mary Black Ewing, John Black, James Black, Rachel
Black McCormick, Margaret Black McCormick, Jane Black
Fleming, Matilda Black Irwin, Maria Black Kirker, and Josephine
Black Torrance.
DESCENDANTS: Three of their six children had children, for a total of twelve grandchildren, surnamed Linhart, Delavie, and Boren.
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