Notes:

Melba Black Cross wrote in 1987 Silas Taylor Black He married first Sarah Ann Reynolds. Children: Lenora, Thame, Orvil, Mark and Hosea. After his wife's death he moved from Jackson County to Lawrence County, married and raised a family there. His second wife was Mattie Tucker. 1900 Lawrence County census list him as head of household, owned fifty acres of Land free of mortgage and that he could read and write. Other records show that he was Postmaster at Landersville in 1906. He owned a farm North of Old Town Creek Church. I've heard that he owned land and two cotton gins in the Section, Alabama area. My father said he was a peddler. He remembered how tired he would be after a dawn-to-dusk work day on the route. Also, that he helped him make jewelry to sell. I know that he lived near Moulton at some time because his second-marriage children finished school there. My memories of him are few. He died when I was 13. He is buried at Blackground Cemetery, near Town Creek.

Birth:
Postmaster, Peddler, Farmer, Owned Cotton Gins

Buried:
Black Ground Cemetery

Died:
Death Age: 83

Silas married Mattie Ada Tucker on 10 Nov 1889 in Jackson, Alabama, USA. Mattie (daughter of John Tucker and Martha Tucker) was born on 12 Jul 1870 in Lauderdale, Alabama, USA; died on 13 Mar 1940 in Lawrence, Alabama; was buried on 14 Mar 1940 in Town Creek, Lawrence County, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Pearl Jane Black was born on 6 Oct 1906 in Landersville, Alabama; died on 13 Dec 1976 in Russellville, Alabama; was buried in Courtland, Lawrence County, Alabama, USA.
2. Bertha Rubenia Black was born on 15 Oct 1900 in Jackson, Alabama, USA; died on 29 Oct 1944 in Lawrence, Alabama.
3. Living Black
4. Silas Mckinley Black was born on 28 Dec 1895 in Langston, Jackson, Alabama, USA; died in May 1977 in Decatur, Morgan, Alabama, United States; was buried in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama, USA.
5. John Hubert Black was born in Oct 1892 in Jackson, Alabama, USA.
6. Ethel O. Black was born about 1894 in Jackson, Alabama, USA.
7. Eunice Mary Black was born in 1902 in Jackson, Alabama, USA.
8. Living Black

Silas married Mary Ann Reynolds on 23 Dec 1868 in DeKalb, Alabama, USA. Mary (daughter of John Ross Reynolds and Pheba Catherine "Kate" Story) was born on 22 Oct 1850 in , Jackson, Alabama, USA; died in 1889 in , Jackson, Alabama, USA; was buried in Jackson, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marcus Henry Black was born on 3 Mar 1871 in Langston, Jackson, Alabama, USA; died on 23 Nov 1942 in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, USA; was buried on 25 Nov 1942 in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, USA.
2. Orvil Black was born on 17 Apr 1876 in Jackson, Alabama, USA.
3. Thamous Durrel Black was born on 24 Jan 1875 in Section, Jackson, Alabama, USA; died on 21 Jun 1938 in House, Quay, New Mexico, USA; was buried in Jun 1938 in House, Quay, New Mexico, USA.
4. Hestor Lenora Black was born on 24 Oct 1871 in Langston, Jackson, Alabama, USA; died on 3 Mar 1952 in Langston, Jackson, Alabama, USA; was buried in Mar 1952 in Langston, Jackson, Alabama, USA.
5. Hosea Black was born on 10 May 1878 in Jackson, Alabama, USA; died on 1 Apr 1942 in Landersville, Lawrence, Alabama, USA; was buried in Apr 1942 in Lawrence County, Alabama, USA.
6. Mitchell Arvel Black was born on 17 Apr 1876 in Langston, Jackson, Alabama, USA; died on 29 Dec 1938 in Campbell, Hunt Co, Texas, USA; was buried in Lone Oak, Hunt, Texas, USA.

John married Jane Shores. Jane was born in 1810 in Tennessee, USA; died in 1881 in Jackson, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]