"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA
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WILLIAM BLACK, J.P., Brooklyn, is the second of four children of Samuel J.
and Mary J. (Lewis) Black, and born in Mooresville, Morgan County, on
February 29, 1836.  Samuel J., the father, was born in Erie County, Penn.,
on June 16, 1812, and came to Indiana in 1824, settling near Indianapolis,
but coming soon to Mooresville, Morgan County.  On October 17, 1833, he
married Mary J. Lewis.  He died on March 19, 1851;  his wife, September
5,1855.  Our subject was reared upon a farm, and received but a limited
education.  In 1848, he went to Iowa with an uncle, sojourning in that State
ten years, when he returned to Indiana in October,1859.  On July 6, 1861, he
enlisted in Company K, Twenty-first Indiana Infantry, served until December
16, 1863, when he "veteranized: and continued in the service until the close
of the war.  On the organization of his company he was made Corporal, but
was promoted to First Sergeant before his discharge.  He participated in the
battle of Baton Rouge, sieges of Port Hudson, Fort Morgan, Fort Spanish and
Fort Blakely.  At the time of his discharge, January 22, 1866, he had
contracted a disability from which he will probably never recover.  While at
home on a furlough, he was married, on December 7, 1865, to Sarah Steele, a
native of Morgan County.  Mrs. Black's father was in the Mexican war, and
died in that service.  To Mr. and Mrs. Black have been born four children.
Both are members of the Christian Church, as is also their eldest daughter.
Mr. Black is a member of the I. O. O. F., and a stanch Republican.  He held
the office of Trustee of Clay Township from 1872 to 1874.  He is at present
a Justice of the Peace of this township.  By trade he is a carpenter.

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