Lona was the child of Joseph,II and Margaret (Blackburn) Black. Her mother Margaret died at the age of 33 leaving Lona at a very young age. I don't know much about her because my father (Lona's son) didn't know anything about her. What I do know, I found by contacting a grand daughter of Lona's brother Ira Kanada Black. Lona married Willard Harrison Traylor son of Phillip & Susan (Purvis) Traylor at a very early age. Harrison passed away about 1900 of typhoid fever leaving Lona with 8 children and expecting another and no way to care for them. They are as follows: Ida, Mary, Philip Johnson, Logan, Willard Sherman, Louis Everett, Harry McKinley, Ira Kanada (my dad) and the baby born afterward, William Elbert. She allowed the children to go to other relatives and friends including my dad who was only two years old. Most of these children had a terrible life. They were only taken in to become farm labor for their benefactors including my dad who was taken in by his Uncle Greenberry Newton Traylor (brother of Willard Harrison Traylor) Dad was not allowed to attend school although in the 1910 Census, it shows his uncle's children were attending school. Dad was treated very mean by his uncle. He left when he became old enough and joined the cavalry during WW I. Lona never reclaimed any of the children. She remarried someone named James York. I have never been able to find out anything about her second marriage, other than a marriage license, but James York either died or they parted right after the marriage. I saw her only once when I was 6 yrs old and it was also the 1st time my dad had seen her since childhood. I only know she had a very hard life. and that she once lived with her youngest child William Elbert and his wife Nancy, and in the 1910 census, she was living with her daughter Dolly/Mary who had married her Uncle George, a brother of her dad's. I find that humorous. The fellow who once was Lona's brother-in-law had now became her son-in-law. When I saw her, she tried to get me to come over to her, but she was smoking a corn cob pipe and I had never seen a woman smoking a pipe and I was afraid. I have been sorry all these years about that because she was the only grandparent I ever saw. The others passed away before I was born. She was being kept by "Old Man Hendricks/Hendrix?" when she passed away in Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky. I once heard my Dad and Uncle Louis say that. She came from a hardy stock including the famous frontiersman Daniel Ashcraft and I pray she is resting in peace. Evidently, she didn't have much in her life-time.