Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hancock Co.

GARLAND D. BLACK, attorney at law, Hancock County, was born August 27, 1847, in
Ohio County, Ky., and is a son of Jesse and Louisa (Craig) Black, both natives
of Kentucky, the former of Ohio and the latter of Muhlenburgh County.  Robert
Black, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of North Carolina.  He came
to Kentucky about 1800, and settled in the northern part of Ohio County, near
the village of Hainesville, where his death occured in 1850.  Mr. Black's
maternal ancestors were early residents of Muhlenburgh County; his grandfather,
James Craig, moving to that part of the State shortly after the Revolutionary
war in order to take possession of a large tract of land, which he received from
the government for services rendered in said war.  Garland D. Craig, son of
James Craig, subject's grandfather, was an early resident of Muhlenburgh County.
He died near Greenville in 1874.  Jesse L. Black was born in 1809, and lived all
his life in Ohio County, dying there in the spring of 1878.  Louisa Black was
born in 1812, and died in 1857.  The following are the names of the children
born to Jesse L. and Louisa Black: Lutitia A. (deceased), James F., Felix H.,
Garland D. and Hiram C.  Subject of this sketch remained in his native county
until thirty years of age, and was reared a farmer.  His primary education was
received at the common schools and in 1869 he became a student of Leitchfield
Academy, Grayson County, which he attended one year.  He afterward attended the
Cloverport Academy, Breckinridge County, one year, and then commenced teaching,
which profession he followed ten years.  In 1874 he began reading law, and later
entered the law office of D. R. Murray and J. D. Powers, with whom he remained
two years, and afterward prosecuted his legal studies one year under M. A.
Mason; was admitted to the bar in 1878, since which time he has been practicing
in the courts of Hancock and adjoining counties.  He was elected attorney of
Hawesville in 1882, serving two years, and in 1884 was called to the office of
mayor, which position he fills at the present time.  Mr. Black was united in
marriage, December 15, 1881, with Miss Mary E. Carlton, daughter of Captain J.
W. and Antoinette Carlton of Hancock County.  The result of this union is one
child: Nettie Louisa, born October 30, 1882.  Mr. and Mrs. Black are active
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Black Craig Murray Powers Mason Carlton
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Ohio, Muhlenberg, NC

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