Benjamin is still farming in English Township of Iowa Co., Iowa in the 1870 census. He has remarried Sarah, who apparently is the widow of a Mr. Cole since there are three Cole children living in their household. The Black children in the 1870 census are Ruth, 19, Jane, 15, Edwin, 13, Perry, 10, William, 8, and Addie, 6.
I believe Benjamin's second wife Sarah might be the widow of a Samuel S. Cole. Samuel S. Cole is a 20-year-old farmer in the 1850 census of Iowa County, Iowa in English Twp. He is married to Sarah D. Cole, age 19, born in Ohio. That age and birthplace fit Benjamin Black's wife in 1870.
Benjamin and Louisa came to Iowa about 1865 (backed up by Ida's 1864 birth in Indiana, and family history of Ida's descendents which says Ida came to Iowa at age 1).
Benjamin was active in the early North English Christian Church. He was named as chairman of a meeting discussing the church's finances in 1868.
B.F. Black officiated at the marriage of John Gilchrist and Rachel Goodridge in 1870. That John Gilchrist was a founding member of the North English Christian Church, and was the grandfather of John Dirom Gilchrist, who would become Benjamin Black's son-in-law.
Several of Benjamin's children came to Saunders Co., Nebraska, and it seems likely that Benjamin did, too. It was the late 1870s or about 1880 when they came to Nebraska from Iowa. His daughter Ellen and her husband John D. Gilchrist moved there in 1880, and maybe that's when the rest of the Black family moved there also. Descendents of his son Perry had guessed that Benjamin died in Saunders Co., but records from his daughter Ida's family give the Kentucky location.
There was a large Cole family (some related to the Stone family) in Shelby Co., Indiana. Perhaps some of those also came to Iowa and that's the Cole family Benjamin's second wife came from?
The names of Benjamin's two children by his second marriage are from family records of descendents of his daughter Ida Black Frasier. These records also name his third wife but note there is no record of any children of that third wife. Family records of descendents of his son Perry also thought Benjamin had two children by his second marriage, but mistakenly identified them as the two youngest children of Louisa.
Sources for this individual: @S990@ @S991@ @S992@ @S993@ @S994@ @S995@ @S106@ @S996@ @S367@ @S1775@ @S1749@
