Parents: James C. Black (1830-1883),buried Mount Hope Cemetery, Allen County, Kansas and first wife: Margaret Ann Bell Black. Parents were married 1851 in Floyd Co, Indiana and had 5 kids there, then moved to Allen County, Kansas. Mother, Margaret may have divorced and moved to Colorado????
This info from Black/Brady/Rourk family records.
~Information from: [email protected]
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Del Norte Prospector dated Friday, September 9, 1955
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for Warden Ray Black, Sr., 85, long-time resident of Creede, Del Norte, and the upper valley. He died Friday at the hospital after two weeks illness, but about ten years of failing health.
For years, he was a sawmill operator in the district running mills at Summitville on Pinos Creek and until 1946, on Myers Creek northwest of town.
He was born at Humbolt, Kansas, may 23, 1870, the son of James and Margaret Bell Black, the sixth child in a family of nine children. A brother and two sisters survive.
At age six he moved to Pagosa Springs with his family and at age 15, struck out on his own, going to the booming Creede silver camp. In 1901, he met and married miss Edna E. Bliss and became engaged in mining with his father-in-law.
The family moved to Holbrook, Arizona in 1917 where he owned and operated a pool hall and picture show for several years. He returned to Pagosa and in 1927 he located in the Valley, settling on Pinos Creek and engaging in the sawmill business through the rest of his active years.
He led an industrious and useful life. He was friendly and respected by all who knew him and he carried the duties of husband and father with responsibility, love and good counsel and example.
When a youth in Creede, he was an eye witness of the shooting of Bob Ford by Ed O’Kelley in 1892.
He was a considerable sportsman and outdoor man and his record in skeet shooting (198 out of 200) still stands in Arizona.
Besides his brother, Alfred of Pagosa Springs, Mrs. Grace Torgelson of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs. Gertrude Sparks of Grass Valley, California, sisters, he is survived by his widow and four children, W.R. Jr., Sonora, California, Ernest and Barney of Del Norte, Margaret of Carlsbad, New Mexico, and their families.
Rev. J.G. Williams officiated at the services and interment was in the Del Norte cemetery with six members of Coronado No. 25, to which he belongs as casket bearers. They were Phil Finnigan, Earl Cochran, Loren Rich, George McClanahan, Earl Rice, and Jack Pace.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver, Cindy Wojciechowicz, and Sandra Lujan.
This info from Black/Brady/Rourk family records.
~Information from: [email protected]
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Del Norte Prospector dated Friday, September 9, 1955
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for Warden Ray Black, Sr., 85, long-time resident of Creede, Del Norte, and the upper valley. He died Friday at the hospital after two weeks illness, but about ten years of failing health.
For years, he was a sawmill operator in the district running mills at Summitville on Pinos Creek and until 1946, on Myers Creek northwest of town.
He was born at Humbolt, Kansas, may 23, 1870, the son of James and Margaret Bell Black, the sixth child in a family of nine children. A brother and two sisters survive.
At age six he moved to Pagosa Springs with his family and at age 15, struck out on his own, going to the booming Creede silver camp. In 1901, he met and married miss Edna E. Bliss and became engaged in mining with his father-in-law.
The family moved to Holbrook, Arizona in 1917 where he owned and operated a pool hall and picture show for several years. He returned to Pagosa and in 1927 he located in the Valley, settling on Pinos Creek and engaging in the sawmill business through the rest of his active years.
He led an industrious and useful life. He was friendly and respected by all who knew him and he carried the duties of husband and father with responsibility, love and good counsel and example.
When a youth in Creede, he was an eye witness of the shooting of Bob Ford by Ed O’Kelley in 1892.
He was a considerable sportsman and outdoor man and his record in skeet shooting (198 out of 200) still stands in Arizona.
Besides his brother, Alfred of Pagosa Springs, Mrs. Grace Torgelson of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs. Gertrude Sparks of Grass Valley, California, sisters, he is survived by his widow and four children, W.R. Jr., Sonora, California, Ernest and Barney of Del Norte, Margaret of Carlsbad, New Mexico, and their families.
Rev. J.G. Williams officiated at the services and interment was in the Del Norte cemetery with six members of Coronado No. 25, to which he belongs as casket bearers. They were Phil Finnigan, Earl Cochran, Loren Rich, George McClanahan, Earl Rice, and Jack Pace.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver, Cindy Wojciechowicz, and Sandra Lujan.
Parents: James C. Black (1830-1883),buried Mount Hope Cemetery, Allen County, Kansas and first wife: Margaret Ann Bell Black. Parents were married 1851 in Floyd Co, Indiana and had 5 kids there, then moved to Allen County, Kansas. Mother, Margaret may have divorced and moved to Colorado????
This info from Black/Brady/Rourk family records.
~Information from: [email protected]
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Del Norte Prospector dated Friday, September 9, 1955
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for Warden Ray Black, Sr., 85, long-time resident of Creede, Del Norte, and the upper valley. He died Friday at the hospital after two weeks illness, but about ten years of failing health.
For years, he was a sawmill operator in the district running mills at Summitville on Pinos Creek and until 1946, on Myers Creek northwest of town.
He was born at Humbolt, Kansas, may 23, 1870, the son of James and Margaret Bell Black, the sixth child in a family of nine children. A brother and two sisters survive.
At age six he moved to Pagosa Springs with his family and at age 15, struck out on his own, going to the booming Creede silver camp. In 1901, he met and married miss Edna E. Bliss and became engaged in mining with his father-in-law.
The family moved to Holbrook, Arizona in 1917 where he owned and operated a pool hall and picture show for several years. He returned to Pagosa and in 1927 he located in the Valley, settling on Pinos Creek and engaging in the sawmill business through the rest of his active years.
He led an industrious and useful life. He was friendly and respected by all who knew him and he carried the duties of husband and father with responsibility, love and good counsel and example.
When a youth in Creede, he was an eye witness of the shooting of Bob Ford by Ed O’Kelley in 1892.
He was a considerable sportsman and outdoor man and his record in skeet shooting (198 out of 200) still stands in Arizona.
Besides his brother, Alfred of Pagosa Springs, Mrs. Grace Torgelson of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs. Gertrude Sparks of Grass Valley, California, sisters, he is survived by his widow and four children, W.R. Jr., Sonora, California, Ernest and Barney of Del Norte, Margaret of Carlsbad, New Mexico, and their families.
Rev. J.G. Williams officiated at the services and interment was in the Del Norte cemetery with six members of Coronado No. 25, to which he belongs as casket bearers. They were Phil Finnigan, Earl Cochran, Loren Rich, George McClanahan, Earl Rice, and Jack Pace.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver, Cindy Wojciechowicz, and Sandra Lujan.
This info from Black/Brady/Rourk family records.
~Information from: [email protected]
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Del Norte Prospector dated Friday, September 9, 1955
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for Warden Ray Black, Sr., 85, long-time resident of Creede, Del Norte, and the upper valley. He died Friday at the hospital after two weeks illness, but about ten years of failing health.
For years, he was a sawmill operator in the district running mills at Summitville on Pinos Creek and until 1946, on Myers Creek northwest of town.
He was born at Humbolt, Kansas, may 23, 1870, the son of James and Margaret Bell Black, the sixth child in a family of nine children. A brother and two sisters survive.
At age six he moved to Pagosa Springs with his family and at age 15, struck out on his own, going to the booming Creede silver camp. In 1901, he met and married miss Edna E. Bliss and became engaged in mining with his father-in-law.
The family moved to Holbrook, Arizona in 1917 where he owned and operated a pool hall and picture show for several years. He returned to Pagosa and in 1927 he located in the Valley, settling on Pinos Creek and engaging in the sawmill business through the rest of his active years.
He led an industrious and useful life. He was friendly and respected by all who knew him and he carried the duties of husband and father with responsibility, love and good counsel and example.
When a youth in Creede, he was an eye witness of the shooting of Bob Ford by Ed O’Kelley in 1892.
He was a considerable sportsman and outdoor man and his record in skeet shooting (198 out of 200) still stands in Arizona.
Besides his brother, Alfred of Pagosa Springs, Mrs. Grace Torgelson of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs. Gertrude Sparks of Grass Valley, California, sisters, he is survived by his widow and four children, W.R. Jr., Sonora, California, Ernest and Barney of Del Norte, Margaret of Carlsbad, New Mexico, and their families.
Rev. J.G. Williams officiated at the services and interment was in the Del Norte cemetery with six members of Coronado No. 25, to which he belongs as casket bearers. They were Phil Finnigan, Earl Cochran, Loren Rich, George McClanahan, Earl Rice, and Jack Pace.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver, Cindy Wojciechowicz, and Sandra Lujan.
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