Obituary: Evans W. Black, Fayette Co., PA

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This obituary came from an unknown paper. It was cut out and 
put into a scrapbook by its original owner.  It was later 
photocopied and given to me in 2002.
It is a transcription of this photocopied original with no 
corrections to its spelling or punctuation.

EVANS W. BLACK

    Mrs. G. R. Hayden, 41 Winchell avenue, is in receipt of word 
telling of the death, Sunday, February 21, 1932, in his home in North 
Loup, Neb., of her uncle, Evans W. Black, a native Fayette countian.
    Born at Fort Necessity, December 27, 1853, Mr. Black was the 
youngest and last surviving of five children of Henry and Orpha Brown 
Black.  When but a young man he went to Nebraska and in 1884 was 
married to Miss Nellie Chase, who preceded him in death.
    Surviving are two children, Henry Black and Mrs. L. O. Greene, 
both of Detroit,
Mich., together with 10 grandchildren.
    In 1887 he founded and for several years edited, The Loyalist, a 
North Loup newspaper.