Information is from a typescript at the Idaho State Historical Society Library, Boise: Cemetery Records, Idaho - Owyhee County: "Black, William, b. 31 May, 1802, in South Carolina, d. 24 Oct 1867, aged 64 years, 4 months, 24 days. He moved to Alabama, 1817; to California, 1849; to Idaho 1866. He had no creed. The world was his country. To do good his religion... William Black was superintendent of the mines then being worked at Flint and was shot down by an Indian as he stepped from his cabin on that fatal October morning... Charles A. Hackney - 1933"
"William Black, of the firm of Black Bros. residing in the town of Oro, was shot and fatally wounded by the Indians on Thursday evening about 7 o'clock. He died yesterday morning... At the time, Mr. Black had just stepped out of his door with a candle in his hand, and was walking round the corner of his house, intending to go down into the cellar from an outside entrance. Another house is situated about 40 feet distant. The Indians were between the two houses, and shot arrows at Mr. Black, one of which produced a fearful wound in his breast, near the heart, causing his death. The funeral will take place today... Mr. Black was an old pioneer on this coast and gained the love and esteem of all who had good fortune to know him. His sad fate has cast a gloom over our entire community". [Mildretta Adams, Sagebrush Post Offices: A History of Owyhee Country (1986), p 151, quoting the Owyhee Avalanche]
"High on a hill, west of the Flint mine and sheltered by a huge Juniper tree, are the graves of William Black and his sister-in-law, Emma (Mrs. S. J. Black). In the 1880s, S. J. Black erected brick mounds over each grave, and covered them with white marble slabs..." [Sagebrush Post Offices]
"William Black, of the firm of Black Bros. residing in the town of Oro, was shot and fatally wounded by the Indians on Thursday evening about 7 o'clock. He died yesterday morning... At the time, Mr. Black had just stepped out of his door with a candle in his hand, and was walking round the corner of his house, intending to go down into the cellar from an outside entrance. Another house is situated about 40 feet distant. The Indians were between the two houses, and shot arrows at Mr. Black, one of which produced a fearful wound in his breast, near the heart, causing his death. The funeral will take place today... Mr. Black was an old pioneer on this coast and gained the love and esteem of all who had good fortune to know him. His sad fate has cast a gloom over our entire community". [Mildretta Adams, Sagebrush Post Offices: A History of Owyhee Country (1986), p 151, quoting the Owyhee Avalanche]
"High on a hill, west of the Flint mine and sheltered by a huge Juniper tree, are the graves of William Black and his sister-in-law, Emma (Mrs. S. J. Black). In the 1880s, S. J. Black erected brick mounds over each grave, and covered them with white marble slabs..." [Sagebrush Post Offices]
Information is from a typescript at the Idaho State Historical Society Library, Boise: Cemetery Records, Idaho - Owyhee County: "Black, William, b. 31 May, 1802, in South Carolina, d. 24 Oct 1867, aged 64 years, 4 months, 24 days. He moved to Alabama, 1817; to California, 1849; to Idaho 1866. He had no creed. The world was his country. To do good his religion... William Black was superintendent of the mines then being worked at Flint and was shot down by an Indian as he stepped from his cabin on that fatal October morning... Charles A. Hackney - 1933"
"William Black, of the firm of Black Bros. residing in the town of Oro, was shot and fatally wounded by the Indians on Thursday evening about 7 o'clock. He died yesterday morning... At the time, Mr. Black had just stepped out of his door with a candle in his hand, and was walking round the corner of his house, intending to go down into the cellar from an outside entrance. Another house is situated about 40 feet distant. The Indians were between the two houses, and shot arrows at Mr. Black, one of which produced a fearful wound in his breast, near the heart, causing his death. The funeral will take place today... Mr. Black was an old pioneer on this coast and gained the love and esteem of all who had good fortune to know him. His sad fate has cast a gloom over our entire community". [Mildretta Adams, Sagebrush Post Offices: A History of Owyhee Country (1986), p 151, quoting the Owyhee Avalanche]
"High on a hill, west of the Flint mine and sheltered by a huge Juniper tree, are the graves of William Black and his sister-in-law, Emma (Mrs. S. J. Black). In the 1880s, S. J. Black erected brick mounds over each grave, and covered them with white marble slabs..." [Sagebrush Post Offices]
"William Black, of the firm of Black Bros. residing in the town of Oro, was shot and fatally wounded by the Indians on Thursday evening about 7 o'clock. He died yesterday morning... At the time, Mr. Black had just stepped out of his door with a candle in his hand, and was walking round the corner of his house, intending to go down into the cellar from an outside entrance. Another house is situated about 40 feet distant. The Indians were between the two houses, and shot arrows at Mr. Black, one of which produced a fearful wound in his breast, near the heart, causing his death. The funeral will take place today... Mr. Black was an old pioneer on this coast and gained the love and esteem of all who had good fortune to know him. His sad fate has cast a gloom over our entire community". [Mildretta Adams, Sagebrush Post Offices: A History of Owyhee Country (1986), p 151, quoting the Owyhee Avalanche]
"High on a hill, west of the Flint mine and sheltered by a huge Juniper tree, are the graves of William Black and his sister-in-law, Emma (Mrs. S. J. Black). In the 1880s, S. J. Black erected brick mounds over each grave, and covered them with white marble slabs..." [Sagebrush Post Offices]
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