James Morton Black

  Noted events in his life were:

• fact. James Morton Black, known as Morton, was a farmer. He served in the Ninth O.V.O. during the C ivil War, and later was president of the State Board of Agriculture. He resided in Fairmont , West Virginia the later years of his life, where he founded the Fairmont Wall Plaster Co.

• connection. ⁸⁷ Gena Wagaman contacted me in regards to William Thomas Black and Belinda Bogardis Black who are to Robert is as follows:
William Black (1871) married William Belinda Black (nee Bogardis) (1874)
His father was James Black (1847)
His father was William Black (1817)
His father was James Black 1795 & he also had Grace Black (1822) who married James Semple (1820)
His father was John Semple (1781) & he also had Marion Semple (1808) who married James Semple (1800)
His father was Andrew Semple (1767) & he also had William Semple (1797)
He had William Semple (1827)
He had David Semple (1856) who married Mary Gray (1861)
Her father was James Gray who married Mary Gardner (1828)
They had Robert Gardner Gray (1868)
He had Elsie Jane Gray (1898) who married William Kemp (1895)
They had Veda Kemp (1925) who married Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
They had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

James married Mary Eliza Hamilton on 25 Nov 1870 in Brownsville, Ohio USA. (Mary Eliza Hamilton was born on 6 Aug 1850 and died on 6 Sep 1880 in Brownsville, Ohio USA.)

James next married Anna Bosworth on 21 Dec 1882 in London City, Middlesex England. (Anna Bosworth was born on 21 Dec 1862.)