Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Bracken Co.

MRS. FANNIE BLACK, was born in Mason County, Ky., and is a daughter of
Madison and Elizabeth (Bledsoe) Worthington.  Her father, Madison
Worthington, also a native of Mason County, Ky., has always been engaged
in agricultural pursuits, and is a son of Thomas T. Worthington, who was
born in Baltimore County, Md., immigrated to Kentucky in 1796 and settled
in Mason County.  He was a son of Samuel Worthington, a very wealthy
gentleman, who was a native of England.  Mrs. Elizabeth Worthington was a
daughter of Benjamin and Fannie (Hawkins) Bledsoe; she died in 1854.  Mrs.
Fannie Black was reared in Mason County, and educated at the female
institute of that county.  June 10, 1862, she married Willie Black, son
of Rudolph and Eliza (Cushman) Black.  He was born in Bracken County,
Ky., September 9, 1835, and died Jun 1, 1879.  Four children blessed this
union, two of whom are now living: Blanche and Claude.  Mr. Black, for
some time before his death, was interested in the tobacco business in
Cincinnati, Ohio.

Black Bledsoe Worthington Hawkins Cushman
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Mason Baltimore-MD England

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