The Family of Charles Watson Black - Family Histories

     C. B. Black was born August 9. 1849, in Georgia. Sarah (Watson) Black was born December 5, 1845. About 1874, they moved to San Marcos and came to Coleman County in 1900. There were five daughters born to this union:

     (1) Mattie died at the age of three;

     2) Fannie married Will Owens, they had nine children, no further record;

     (3) Emma married Crit Kelley, three children: Roy has not married and lives in Sweetwater; Pearl married Dolph Smith. three children: two died in infancy and daughter, Anita, lives in FIorida, Pearl resides in Sweetwater; Lillie married Clifford Boyles, had two sons, she resides in Arizona;

     (4) Rowena married G.B. (Ben) Posey and four children were born to this union: De Gress married Fannie Hill, no children. He died in 1975 and Fannie, November 1, 1983, in Ballinger, both buried in San Marcos. Frank married Etta Nail, they had seven children: Etta Marie, Frankie, Richard, Janice, Geneva, James and Donald. Frank is deceased and Etta died December 16, 1983, buried at Rough Creek. Vista married Richard William Courtney and three daughters were born: Mildred married Ralph shatter. He is deceased, and she resides in Sweetwater; Rowena (Sis) married Bruce Hagler. (see Box-Caldwell-Touchstone). Both are deceased. Sarah Charles married Carl Stewart and resides in Coleman. There were no children born to the three daughters (see Richard William Courtney). G. B. (Pete) married Lillian Stanley, had four children: Christene; Joyce; O. B. (deceased), and Gene (deceased).

     (5) Pearl married Herman Wiegraffe, one daughter, Marie, married Ralph Brown. They had five children: Sybil, Eddie, Ken, Randall (deceased), and Larry, (deceased). (See James. M. Brown).

     The C.B. Black family lived four miles south of Novice. The 160 acre farm was bought from E. Birdwell and later, C. B. black bought the Frank Strickland farm that joined him on the west. He also bought 750 acres of State School land joining him on the south. He enjoyed stock farming and gardening for many years. and sold the place to his son-in-law, Herman Wiegraffe. He then bought the old F. Deakens farm, which he sold to his daughter, Emma Kelley, when he retired. Sarah Black died February 10, 1925, C. B. Black, January 15, 1936.

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Charles Barton Black

Saran Watson Black

Ben and Rowena Posey