Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Knox County

David H. Black, county clerk of Knox County, KY, is a native of that county,
and was born February 16, 1858.  His ancestors came from Virginia, and were
among the earliest settlers of that section of Kentucky now known as Knox
County.  His parents, Isaac J. and Mary (Cheek) Black, were tillers of the
soil.  Isaac J. Black served all through the late war as Captain of Company
H, Forty-ninth Kentucky Federal Infantry, and in 1866 was elected county
clerk of Knox County, but died two days after assuming the duties of the
office.  David H. Black was the fourth in a family of six children, was
reared on the farm and received his education at Tusculum College, Green
County, Tenn.  Left an orphan when but eight years of age, he was compelled
to do for himself.  He learned and worked at the carpenter’s trade, but
subsequently engaged in the milling business, which he successfully
continued until 1886, at which time he was elected county clerk of Knox
County.  November 21, 1877, he married Miss Ida, a daughter of Christopher
C. and Mattie Johnson, of Hamblen County, Tenn.  She died June 14, 1882, the
mother of two children, viz: John C. and Annie H.  Mr. Black is a staunch
Democrat, a member of the F. & A.M. fraternity, and also a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

Black Cheek Johnson
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VA Green-TN Hamblen-TN

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