ROSS COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: BLACK, Clell (d. 1947)
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BLACK

Last Rites Sunday for Clell Black, 82 (Abraham Shoults Black) 
Resident of Many years expires late Thursday Evening at Hospital in Danville. June 31, 1947
Clell Black, 83, one of Milford's oldest citizens, passed away at 11:30 P.M. last Thursday in 
Lake View hospital in Danville. Mr. Black had been in ill health for some time and a patient in 
the hospital the past few weeks. The deceased was born August 12, 1864 in Rose [Ross County, Ohio 
the son of Abe and Rosan Schultz Black. 

He was united in marriage with Dora Peters who died in 1922. Ten years later he was rewed to Mrs. 
Eva Musser at Kentland, Indiana. He had resided the past 65 years in the Milford vinicity. Two 
children, Mrs. Jennie Fleming of Milford and Howard Black of Hot Springs, N.M. survive him in 
death. Other survivors include two sisters, Elizabeth Black, Milford and Mrs. Dora Briscoe, 
DeGrass, Ohio, and three grandchildren, Kathryn Fleming of Milford, Leroy Doff, of New Mexico and 
Francis Black, in addition to five great grandchildren. 

Funeral services were held at 2:30 P.M. Sunday at the Barker Funeral Home with Rev. W. G. 
Anderson officiating and Rev. Pearle Hasselbring offering prayer at the service and at the 
cemetery. Interment was in Maple Grove Cemetery. A quartet composed of Maxwell Crawford, Dick 
Barker, Dale Keen and Ronald Brewer, accompanied by John Piersol at the piano, sang the hymns 
"Abide With Me" and "In the Cross". 

Serving as pallbearers were Clarence Scheiwe, Buryl Hawthorne, Kenneth Richart, Fred Brewer, 
Fred Swadley and Harold Romine; Mesdames Fred Brewer, A. L. Hixson, Henry Hulse and Kenneth 
Richart were in charge of the flowers. 

Typo errors in this obit are as written in the text from the paper (e.g., DeGass, Ohio is 
DeGraff, Ohio). --L.G. 

July 31, 1947 Watseka Republican, Watseka, Iroquois County Illinois - 31 Jul 1947
[Newspaper located at the mailto:iroqgene@techinter.com, 102 West Cherry Street, Watseka, 
Illinois 60970-1524.] 


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