Just posting this to keep a record somewhere. This is my husband’s side.
It appears that John Black, father of Fremont Elam Black, father of Earl Black Dad’s grandpa Black, served in the Union army for Illinois in 1861. Not enough time to finish this today– John Black is the one who Grp Black says was a traveling preacher. His WIFE Mary Jane Elam– is buried in northern Arkansas. He probably is also. Oddfellow cemetary, Phillips county. She died in 1893, supposedly of the measles.
John Black’s wife’s name was Mary Jane Elam, hence the middle name of “Elam” for their son Fremont. John Black dies in Arkansas. Next time Jamal & Shelly go there maybe they can find his gravesite.
This is the grave marker for JAMES ELAM, father of Mary Jane Elam Black, mother of Fremont Elam Black, father of Earl Black, father of Chester Black.
It’s in Bentonville cemetary, Arkansas. 
The Elam family traced back to “New Jersey” in the 1700s, which I don’t think makes a whole lotta sense, but let me know, and then to England. It goes like this:
James Elam married to Marinda Sharp (from NC)
Marinda’s parents were LEVI SHARP (which sounds Jewish) and Margaret Coffee.
Levi Sharp’s parents were Allen Sharp and Elizabeth Haines.
Allen Sharp’s parents were William Sharp (born in England) and Rebecca Allen.
William Sharp’s mother is reportedly Jemima Eastlack, or Eastleak, and she was born in Bermuda—- but there is a marriage record, so she was not a slave. It gets really confusing when you get back this far, there are usually mistakes, such as children listed to a mother past her death date. I try to be careful not to add BS like that.
Like the Agnews, the family where there is a dead end at the moment, is the Morgans. After Julia’s parents, I have -0-.
Doctor Grandma 
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