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Summary Chart for Investigative Research

Parents of James Black:
Samuel Black II 1758-1819
...............Mary Penelope Donnally 1764-1817

Parents of Jenny Law
(info from Jerry Black)
father was Robert Law
mother Ann Sanderson
Parents of Rachel Spring

James Black 8/27/1786

First wife group, Second wife group,
Jenny Law Aug, 21, 1787- Mar. 11, 1810 (married 12-23-1802) Rachel Spring (married 1811) (b. 10/25/1788 d.12/6/1860)
Children of Jenny
.....*Mary b 1806 (had 14 children) (husband Amos Dawson 1802)
(For complete information about these 14, visit : Dawson Website )
.............................Drury 1827
.............................Mary Ann '28
.............................Amos Jr. '29
.............................Sarah '30
.............................James '31
..............................Isaac '32
..............................Bindy '34
..............................Abraham '35
..............................Alfred (Kudge/Cudge) '37
..............................Noah '39
..............................Rachel '44
..............................David '42
.............................Alexander '44
.............................Elizabeth '46
...............................(possibly 3 infants died early)
......*Thomas bJan. 24, 1808 (married Martha Clark)
.......*2 infants
Children of Rachel
......*John b,Jan. 15, 1811 (Married Anne Foster)
...............................................................2nd wife Mary Hawn
.....................................................?
......................................................................?
.........................................................................Descendants Lee and Pattie
.........*Solomon Dec. 16, 1812 (wife Elizabeth Dykes 1817)
................William (born Dec 1838 d. 1870)
....................Horace (born May 13 1879 Died Sept 9 1948)
.........................Fred (Born June 10 1906 Died Jan 8 1982)
............................Gary (Born Sept 17 1944)
..................................Craig
..........*James Pring Black
............b.(Oct. 23, 1813 via Jerry) (or Feb. 10, 1815 via Lee) - d. 1863
............(wife Mary Howard Dykes b. 1813)
.....................Solomon Black 1845 (second wife Delilah Burgin b 1847 )
....................................John Wesley Wiley Black b 1870 wife...Sarah Ann Sexton b 1873
...........................................Charles Elmer Black b. 1894 wife Alice Moore 1914
.......................................................Gerald Quentin Black b 1941, wife Angelia Spurgeon
(see below for more complete dates and places)

Full dates/places for descendants of James Pring Black (Used with permission from G.Q.B.)

Solomon Black b 12-20-1845 Washington Co. Tn. d. 12-27-1913 Rock Creek, 
Cocke Co. Tn
married 8-20-1870 Del Rio, Cocke Co. Tn to
Deliah Burgin b 7-16-1847 Burke County, N. C. d. 11-23-1923 Rock Creek, 
Cocke Co. Tn
both buried in Black family cemetery Rock Creek

John Wesley Wiley Black b 12-15-1870 Rock Creek, Tn d. 12-29-1898 Del 
Rio, Tn
buried in Old Methodist Church Cemetery, Nough, Cocke Co. Tn
married 12-23-1893 Del Rio, Tn to
Sarah Ann Sexton b 4-24-1873 Del Rio, Tn d. 12-5-1956 Alexandria, Virginia
buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Tennessee

Charles Elmer Black b.11-25-1894 Del Rio, Tn d.11-11-1975 Newport, Tn.
married 7-20-1940   Dandridge, Jefferson Co. Tn to
Alice Moore b 8-24-1914 Waterville, Haywood County, North Carolina 
d.4-16-1989 Newport, Tn.
both buried in Union Cemetery, Newport, Tn.

Gerald Quentin Black(me) b 9-29-1941 Hartford, Cocke Co, Tn (and I ain't 
dead yet) ha ha
married 6-1-2001 Newport, Tn to
Angelia Michelle Spurgeon b 4-16-1975 Newport Tn