Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

BENJAMIN F. BLACK was born in Amherst County, Va., and is a son of 
Madison Black, also a native of Virginia.  When between nine and ten 
years of age, he moved with his father to Kerr's Creek, Rockbridge Co., 
Va., where he remained until near the age of twenty-five.  He was reared 
on a farm.  In March, 1862, he entered the Confederate Army, in Turner 
Ashby's Calvary; served under Stonewall Jackson, and was with Gen. Lee 
when he surrendered at Appomattox in 1865.  Mr. Black married Eliza O., 
daughter of John Hayslett, of this county; she died leaving two 
children:  Avonia L. and Robert E. Lee.  After remaining a widower three 
years, Mr. Black married Nancy E., daughter of Edward Hix.  They have 
one child - Mary E.  Mr. Black is a Methodist and a Democrat; his first 
wife was a Methodist; this present wife is a Baptist.

Black Ashby Jackson Lee Hayslett Hix
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Amherst-VA Rockbridge-VA

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