BLACK, Walker Moses 1849-1934

BLACK, PERTNING, GAGE, SMITH, TERPENING

Posted By: Richard K Thompson (email)
Date: 11/26/2009 at 11:37:49

The Fairfield Ia. Daily Ledger
Monday November 5, 1934
Page 2, Column 6

WALKER BLACK RITES SUNDAY

Pioneer Buried in Evergreen Cemetery Here This Afternoon

DES MOINES, Ia., Nov. 5 -- Funeral services for Walker M. BLACK, 85, pioneer Iowa insurance man, were held in Des Moines yesterday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock at Dunn's funeral home.

The body was then taken to Fairfield, where burial with short services were in charge of Dr. Gilbert Voorhies and the Murray funeral directors.

Mr. BLACK, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Moses C. BLACK, early settlers near Fairfield, died at his home on 1010 Nineteenth st. Friday after a three-week illness.

He first entered the loan insurance business in 1878 and soon became Missouri state agent for the State Insurance Co. of Des Moines.

In 1895 he became Iowa state agent for the Harford Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn. In 1917 Mr. BLACK became an independent adjuster in the fire insurance field.

He is survived by his widow and two children, C. H. BLACK and Mrs. Catherine Blossom PERTNING, all of Des Moines.

Mr. BLACK was an uncle of Charles H. GAGE of Fairfield.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

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Note: Married first to Katherine AVERILL and then to Marsella MILLS, it is reported on a family data sheet on file at the Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield, Iowa.

Note: the name of the daughter is also spelled as "Katherine" in the obituary of her mother.

Note: The graves for Walker BLACK and Katherine AVERILL BLACK are not marked in Evergreen Cemetery, Plot: Old.P.045. There are two listings in this same plot for "2 babies" it should be noted. Son Charles is buried in the same plot in an unmarked grave.

What happened to the second wife (if he did in fact remarry), Marsella MILLS, isn't known either. She evidently was not buried in this plot according to the cemetery superindendent when asked to verify these burials in November 2009 (he consulted the cemetery burial records).

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Added by Admin, July 2020 --

"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Monday, November 5, 1934
Page THREE, Column 2

Around The Town
by the Inquiring Reporter

... Mr. and Mrs. F. M. BLACK came Sunday from their home in Creston and are guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. SMITH. Mr. and Mrs. BLACK came to Fairfield to attend the funeral services of Mr. BLACK's brother Walker BLACK of Des Moines held at the Evergreen cemetery this noon. Mr. BLACK died at his home in Des Moines on Friday. His body was accompanied from Des Moines to Fairfield by his wife, daughter Mrs. TERPENING and son Charles BLACK who are at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles GAGE following the services.

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*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Walker's first wife Katherine AVERILL BLACK died in 1915; he remarried in Colfax, Jasper County, IA, to Marcella MILLS on August 1, 1920. Marcella died in 1965, although where she is buried is not known at this time.