Occupations: soldier, blacksmith, clerk, farmer. His parents were Thomas Black & Ellen Deboine. He served with the 61st Regiment, Company B. Married Ann at Dorchester, MA in 1850. Thomas and Anne lived in North Andover, MA, and had a farm on Rt. 114. He died of a valvular disease of the heart. (sources: Family Search/Vital Records of Wakefield, MA & gravestone inscription)
He and his wife Anna had at least (2) children, also buried in this cemetery: Ida & Stephen.
additional children:
-Annie B. (Black) Bancroft of Reading, MA
-Thomas Boyce Black
-Albert B. Black of Concord, MA
-Frank Kingston Black [d. Antrim, NH]
Further notes regarding their children:
Annie married a future selectman of Reading who also served as a state representative and the towns water commissioner.
Thomas Boyce Black was a blacksmith in Stoneham for a short-time, built "Black's Block" in Reading, Mass in 1890, and then disappeared for a while before surfacing in Texas in 1933.
Albert Black owned a wagon manufacturing company in Concord, Mass and held a number of patents for wagons and snowplow designs.
He and his wife Anna had at least (2) children, also buried in this cemetery: Ida & Stephen.
additional children:
-Annie B. (Black) Bancroft of Reading, MA
-Thomas Boyce Black
-Albert B. Black of Concord, MA
-Frank Kingston Black [d. Antrim, NH]
Further notes regarding their children:
Annie married a future selectman of Reading who also served as a state representative and the towns water commissioner.
Thomas Boyce Black was a blacksmith in Stoneham for a short-time, built "Black's Block" in Reading, Mass in 1890, and then disappeared for a while before surfacing in Texas in 1933.
Albert Black owned a wagon manufacturing company in Concord, Mass and held a number of patents for wagons and snowplow designs.
Occupations: soldier, blacksmith, clerk, farmer. His parents were Thomas Black & Ellen Deboine. He served with the 61st Regiment, Company B. Married Ann at Dorchester, MA in 1850. Thomas and Anne lived in North Andover, MA, and had a farm on Rt. 114. He died of a valvular disease of the heart. (sources: Family Search/Vital Records of Wakefield, MA & gravestone inscription)
He and his wife Anna had at least (2) children, also buried in this cemetery: Ida & Stephen.
additional children:
-Annie B. (Black) Bancroft of Reading, MA
-Thomas Boyce Black
-Albert B. Black of Concord, MA
-Frank Kingston Black [d. Antrim, NH]
Further notes regarding their children:
Annie married a future selectman of Reading who also served as a state representative and the towns water commissioner.
Thomas Boyce Black was a blacksmith in Stoneham for a short-time, built "Black's Block" in Reading, Mass in 1890, and then disappeared for a while before surfacing in Texas in 1933.
Albert Black owned a wagon manufacturing company in Concord, Mass and held a number of patents for wagons and snowplow designs.
He and his wife Anna had at least (2) children, also buried in this cemetery: Ida & Stephen.
additional children:
-Annie B. (Black) Bancroft of Reading, MA
-Thomas Boyce Black
-Albert B. Black of Concord, MA
-Frank Kingston Black [d. Antrim, NH]
Further notes regarding their children:
Annie married a future selectman of Reading who also served as a state representative and the towns water commissioner.
Thomas Boyce Black was a blacksmith in Stoneham for a short-time, built "Black's Block" in Reading, Mass in 1890, and then disappeared for a while before surfacing in Texas in 1933.
Albert Black owned a wagon manufacturing company in Concord, Mass and held a number of patents for wagons and snowplow designs.
Inscription
COMPANY B 51 REG'T.
MASS VOL'S.
Gravesite Details
1-there may have been a second child called Ida who had also died in infancy/youth.2-much info provided by a person outside of FindAGrave.
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