Black, M. P.

BLACK

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Date: 3/11/2007 at 20:35:00

M. P. Black

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.260, Wright Twp.)
M. P. Black, farmer, P. O. Griswold, Cass County, was born in Franklin County, Ohio, December 29, 1820, son of John and Margaret (Petrie) Black, he a native of Virginia, and she of German descent. His father died in Union County, Ind., about 1862. The mother of our subject is now over eighty-three years of age, and resides in Indiana. She sent he son a quilt, which she pieced after she was eighty-two years old. Our subject received his education in a log schoolhouse. In 1842, he began farming for himself on a little piece of rented land. He left Indiana and came to this State; wintered in Warren County, and then came to this county, locating in Waveland Township in 1853. He made improvements on Section 11, Township 74, Range 38, pre-empted the same, and entered it the following year. Here he lived until the spring of 1857, when he went to Buchanan County, Mo., raised a crop, and returned to Warren County, this State, in the fall of the same year. In 1861, he enlisted as First Sergeant, Company B, Tenth Iowa Infantry. He was in the engagements attending the expedition to open the Mississippi, under Rosecrans; was also with Sherman through Alabama and Georgia, and also in the siege of Vicksburg. His time having expired, he was mustered out at Kingston, Ga., in the fall of 1864. He returned home, sold his place and moved to Harrison County, this State, where he lived for three years, when he returned to this county, in october 1869, and, after renting for three years, he purchased his present homestead. he was the first Justice of the Peace in Walnut. He was married to Elizabeth Moore. a native of Pennsylvania, by whom he had three children - Climpson B., Margaret Jane and Mary Ann. The mother died in 1848. His second marriage was with Mary Highner, a native of Indiana; she died in 1853. By her he had two children - Rosalinda and John R. Our subject was married a third time, to Mrs. Tabitha Lipp, nee Pierson, a native of Kentucky. By her he had seven children - William, Leonard, Elizabeth, Rosa B., Cora, Susan and Frank. All of the twelve children are now living, out of a family of fourteen. In politics, our subject is a Democrat.