Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Black family whose ancestors came from Scotland, Ireland and England. Some early ancestors settled in Massachusetts and Maine during the 1600's. Some later families also lived in the Stone Mountain area of North Carolina and in South Carolina. Some focus is on (but is not limited to) William Black (ca. 1770-1860) and his wife, Sarah Stevens (b. 1774). He was born in North Carolina,...

Alexander Morrow (ca. 1745- 1817) came to America from North Ireland about 1793, with his family. He married Susan Cassidy ca. 1763 and they had seven children. They may have lived first in New Jersey, but later settled in Brooke County, Virginia. Their daughter, Margaret (ca. 1771-1848) married Robert Morehead (b. ca. 1765). She and Robert moved to Ohio and had six known children. Descendants now live throughout the United States.

Biography of Dwight Whitney Morrow (b.1873), born to James Elmore Morrow and Clara Johnson in Huntington, West Virginia, where his father was president of Marshall College. Dwight went to Amherst College in Massachusetts, with Calvin Coolidge as a fellow student and friend. Dwight eventually married Elizabeth Reeve Cutter, and practiced law in New York City, while his home was in Englewood, New Jersey. He became a partner in J.P. Morgan & Company,...

Beth Elenda Smith Spencer was born 12 November 1923 in Teague, Freestone, Texas. Her parents were Lex Smith (1885-1948) and Addie Burke Sullivan (1887-1977). She married George Lisle Spencer, Jr. (b. 1921) 12 June 1943 in St. Petersburg, Florida. His parents were George Lisle Spencer and Florence Florene Summers. Ancestors of Beth and George lived primarily in Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia,...

Charles Hubbard (ca. 1761-1836) was probably born in North Carolina or Virginia. He and his wife, Jemima Capps (1767-ca. 1849), had ten children, 1792-1812. The family was living in Madison County, Kentucky, by 1795, and in Missouri by 1810. Charles Hubbard died in Pike County, Illinois, and it buried in the Hubbard Cemetery, Pleasant Hill, Illinois. Descendants listed lived in Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, and elsewhere. Includes a section for each...

A genealogy of the Morrow family who are descendants of Arthur A. Morrow, Sr. born in 1755 in Antrim County, Ireland. He married Elizabeth Cooper. He died in Oct 1807 in Verdery, South Carolina.

John L Morrow, son of Alexander Keith Morrow and Catherine G., was born 10 December 1830 in Tennessee. He died 25 January 1901 in McDonald County, Missouri. He married Mary C (Cerene) C Hunt 3 November 1849 in Giles County, Tennessee. Mary, the daughter of Squire Hunt and Sidney Ann Cooper, was born 5 October 1822 in Tennessee. She died 14 January 1913 in McDonald County, Tennessee. They had six children. They lived mainly in Tennessee, Missouri,...

Orley Frank Claybourn (1877-1935) was born in Jefferson County, Illinos. He married Jennie Mae Weene in 1905. They had two sons, born ca. 1906-1925. Their son, James Frederick Claybourn, was born at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1925. The family lived at Evansville, Indiana. He married Betty Jean Morrow, daughter of William S. and Lilyan Wheeler Morrow, in 1948. They had three children, 1952-1960. The family lives at Evansville. Includes the related Morrow...