Biography of Grace BLACK, Scott Co, Arkansas

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Contributed by Delaine Edwards.
Aug 6 1999

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	The material transcribed below is from a special edition of the 
Scott County Advertiser newspaper of 3 April 1991, entitled "A Salute to 
Scott County Citizens 90 Years and Over." The interviews were done as
part of a celebration of the Bank of Waldron's 90th anniversary. They are
arranged alphabetically for presentation here. Pictures were included 
with these short biographies.

BLACK, Grace: Grace Black was born in Durham, Kansas October 18, 1895
to Allen and Cora Borton. In 1914 she came to Scott County and has been
here ever since. She married Addicus Black (deceased 13 years) in 1919,
and the couple were the parents of three children: Cora Lee Ken of Dallas,
TX; Raymond Black (deceased) of Mena; and Florence Nix of Dallas, TX.
Grace also has 7 grandsons and 13 great grandchildren, all boys except 3.
Grace went to school at Searcy, is a member of the Methodist Church, and
worked at Parsley's 10c Store, the Mena Shirt Factory, and at the old
Seaman's Store in Waldron. She also sewed for the public for many years.
She has a whole tabloid of her life to pass on to her descendants.