BIRTH: Mary E. Black born Mar 29 1865 white Taylor Springs, father Joseph M Black shoemaker resides Taylor Springs, mother Joanna Black, info. father. Rockingham Birth records says Mar 29 but tombstone and death cert. says Mar 30.

CENSUS: 1880 Census living two doors down from mother at

S.H. CAMER Self M Male W 54 VA Farmer VA VA

Annie CAMER Wife M Female W 48 VA Keeping House VA VA

Bettie BLACK Other S Female W 13 VA VA VA

Census Place E. D. 71 And 72, Central, Rockingham, Virginia NA Film Number T9-1388 Page Number 280C

DEATH: Rockingham Cert. #26803; Mary E Baugh born Mar 30 1865 VA died Oct 31 1915 3pm; parents Joe Black and --- Berry both born VA; bur. Keezletown; fun. dir. Cox & Higgs; phys. J.F. Wright. died of tuberculosis of lungs, info. Wm. H. Baugh, Keezletown, VA

OBITUARY: Mrs. William H. Baugh Dies in Keezletown. Mrs. Bettie Baugh, wife of William H. Baugh, of Keezletown, died yesterday afternoon at her home. She had been ill during the last eight months of tuberculosis and her condition for several days was known to have been critical. Mrs. Baugh was Miss Bettie Black, a daughter of the late Joseph Black, and was fifty years old. She was a member of the Methodist Church for about thirty years and was a woman of excellent Christian character. Besides her husband and her mother, Mrs. Johanna Black, of Keezletown, she is survived by six children, Joseph Baugh of Wilmington, NC; Mrs. Edward Purcell, of Harrisonburg; Kenny Baugh, of Keezletown; Misses Marie, Fannie and Florence Baugh at home. She also leaves three brothers, Charlie Black of Keezletown, Burlington Black of Iowa; B.F. Black of Holtane, VA and one sister, Mrs. Delia Riddle of Port Republic. Funeral arrangements wil not be announced until the time of arrival of relatives from a distance is ascertained. The Daily News Record Nov. 1, 1915. (There is a typo in this obituary, Charles Black lived in Burlington Iowa. There was not a Burlington Black of Iowa)