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From: "Paul E. Hedges" <>
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:04:21 -0500


The following info was sent to me by Anne and Tim Ryan. Their websites are:

Anne Marie Black Ryan Genealogy Page
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/3441/
Timothy Ryan Genealogy Page
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/5090/

Source: The History of Gentry County, Missouri published in 1882
JACOB BLACK.

Among the agriculturists of Gentry County who have gained a reputation of
being successful in their occupation is the subject of this sketch. He is a
native of Illinois and was born in Macoupin County, January 30, 1822. There
he lived till he attained the age of fifteen years, when, in i837, he went
to Wisconsin, where he lived till 1857. He then came to Gentry County,
Missouri. In 1859 he returned to Wisconsin, and in 1869 he again removed to
Gentry County, where he has since resided. His parents being in limited
circumstances, his advantages for acquiring an education in youth were quite
limited, but in later years, by hard study, he has become possessed of more
than ordinary knowledge. He made his own start in the world as a farmer boy,
which occupation he has made his business during life. He now has a farm of
100 acres, which is well improved and in a good state of cultivation, Mr.
Black is a member of the Christian Church, to which he has belonged for some
ten years. In 1849 he was married in Green County, Wisconsin, to Mrs.
Lucinda Stam, of Washington County, Ohio. By this union there is one child,
James 0. Mrs. Black was a daughter of Samuel Hedges, a native of Kentucky,
and a descendant of the Hedges of England, who' are widely known to many.
She was formerly married to Christian Stam, of Pennsylvania, by whom she had
six children, five sons and one daughter: Susan, George W., William F., John
H., Hiram F. and Thomas H. Mr. Black is one of the prominent men of Gentry
County, ever ready to lend a helping hand to any good work of charity and
enterprise.

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Paul Hedges

Hedges Family History Website
<http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PHedges/>;
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