Person:James Black (45)

"William Black and His Descendants" 32. JAMES BLACK was born in Clark County, Kentucky, Feb. 8, 1798, and was a youth of eleven years when he came, with his parents, to Champaign County, Ohio, in 1809. As a boy he experienced the pleasures of pioneer life and at the time bore his part in developing and improving the home farm. From the time of his arrival in this county he resided continuously in Champaign County, and being very successful in his farm work, his labors brought to him an excellent return in. golden harvests. Being a man of powerful build he was well calculated to stand the hardships of an early pioneer life. During the War of 1812 he drove a supply wagon which carried supplies to General Hull's army on its march to Detroit.

After the close of the war he was engaged in driping cattle and hogs for two hundred miles through this unbroken wilderness to Detroit. They had to ford all the streams and rivers Urn the way, build fires at night to keep panthers and wolves at bay, lie on the ground in rain or snow and all kinds of weather during the trip and go on foot all the way there and back.

He married Caroline Culbertson on March 6, 1832 (sister of Lucy Culbertson in No. 33). She was the daughter of John Boyd and Susanna Douglas Culbertson who came to Champaign County in

Caroline Culbertson was born in Erie County. Pennsylvania, Jan. 26, 1810. Her father was a native of Northumberland County, Pa. and served as a private in the War of 1812. Her grandfather, Andrew Culbertson, was a private in Col. Hunter's Battalion of Associates, from Northumberland County, in 1776 and served until the close of the war. He was in a battle with the Indians on Bald Eagle Creek, in Center County, Pa., on April 10, 1782, in which the whole force was killed except the commander, Major Moses Van Campen, Andrew Culbertson and one other man.

He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Northumberland County for carrying into effect the orders of Congress. (Pa. Archives).

JAMES BLACK died on July 3, 1882. His wife, Caroline, died Jan. 11, 1885. Both are buried in Fairview Cemetery, West Liberty, Logan Co., Ohio

78 Janeborn June 11, 1833 79 Susanborn Oct. 24, 1835 80 Lucy Annborn Mar. 20, 1839 81 Alexander C.born Dec. 8, 1841 82 Carolineborn Aug. 6, 1845 83 John Robertborn Feb. 20, 1848 84 Elizabethborn July 14, 1850 85 James W.born Oct. 28, 1853

HISTORY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Champaign/ChampaignSalem.htm On the 23d of August, 1880, on a visit to an aged friend, James Black, Esq., of Salem Township, the writer found the old man in his eighty-fourth year, weak and feeble in body and mind, but strong in honesty, honor and noble feeling. With the assistance of his obliging sons, John and James, he gave the following historical incidents. His father; Capt. Alexander Black, settled on Mad River, in Salem Township, in 1809. Judge McPherson, then an Indian trader, lived on what is now known as the Samuel Black farm. This point was first settled by a Frenchman named Deshicket, in 1794 ; he was probably the first resident white settler in what is now Champaign County. In the spring preceding Wayne's decisive battle, August 20, 1794, Deshicket resided near the Greenville treaty ground.........

1. ↑ Raymond Finley Hughes and Howard Clift Black. William Black and his Descendents A Genealogy of the Descendents of William Black of Augusta County, VA and la. (Unpublished. Copyrighted 1973 by Hughes).
2. ↑ Biographical Sketches. History of Logan County And Ohio. (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, 186 Dearborn Street. 1880).