Individual Details

For some reason, genealogy researchers have Spencer and Haness born in 1785 (from the family bible?) rather than 1792, which is what the 1850 Madison county census showed. Seven years is a big difference, and 1792 would make them almost too young. Spencer would be 14 or 16 when his first child was born. Not impossible, of course, but also the birth place of Haness in Madison County disagrees with what researchers have for her (Missouri instead of Tennessee). So, I think this may be two different families. I also question the John S. Black in the 1840 Wayne County, Missouri census. I don't know what led somebody to believe this is the same as Spencer Black, much less our Spencer Black.

Spencer was of mixed blood Cherokee and whatever else is in the Pennsylvania Black Dutch. Source of Name, DOB, and ethnic heritage: Bible of Jasper Marion Black held by Pauline (Polly) Scanlon.

Robert Black's father was of mixed blood (reportedly Pennsylvania Black Dutch, an admixture of Anglo-Saxon Frontiersmen, Cherokee Indian, Afro-America and Portuguese blood lines who populated the
Appalachian Mountain areas of western PA and VA, and east TN and KY in the 1700's and 1800's). His mother was a full-blood Cherokee Indian.

Indian names for Spencer and Haness and their parents were apparently made up by somebody and passed along to genealogists as a poor joke.

Birth	Abt 1785	Tennessee, USA
Census	1850	Madison, Missouri, USA
Death	Abt 1855	St Mary's of The Ozarks Hospital,Iron Co,Mo
Marriage		Haness

Spouse	Haness (1785 - 1855)
Child	Alfred "Griffith" Black (1806 - 1888)
Child	Rebecca Black (1808 - )
Child	Rhedmond H Black (1810 - 1839)
Child	? John Black (1812 - )
Child	George Washington Black (1814 - )
Child	Robert Black (1817 - )
Child	Mary Pollyanna "Polly" Black (1819 - )
Child	Rev James Samuel Black (1822 - )
Child	John Black (1823 - 1856)
Child	Sarah "Lova" "Lova Or Loud" Black (1824 - )