Person:Albert Black (2)

"Wm. Black & His Descendants" 116. ALBERT H. BLACK was born July 11, 1829, near Greencastle, Indiana. He attended Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana. He married Martha Elizabeth Ringo, Nov. 1, 1854, in Randolph County, Indiana. He was a very successful businessman. He drove sheep from Greencastle, Indiana, to Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas where he operated a sheep ranch. He owned a few slaves. He was ingenious and musical, having made a violin and then played it. During the Civil War he manufactured fire arms for the southern army. It was while on a business trip overland that he took typhoid fever and died at Brownsville, Texas, Dec. 22, 1864. He was a very successful businessman and had accumulated quite an estate for so young a man. His wife, Martha, was born in Centerville, Indiana, July 9, 1834 and died at the home of her daughter, Ida, in Seattle, Washington, Oct. 6, 1911.

295Ellaborn 1855; died unmarried Aug. 9, 1879. 296Ida 297Josephine 298Eben R.born May 22, 1860 299Asa Lee (Albert's place of birth is in error. The Blacks did not move to IN until later.)

1. ↑ 1850 IN Census.
2. ↑ 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 (Unpublished.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).