BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CLINTON RESIDENTS (Pgs 669-697) >From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) JOHN BLACK, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. De Witt; born in County Antrim, Ireland, Jan. 1, 1817; he removed to England in the spring of 1836, and to New York the same year, where he lived five years; then went to Alabama, where he lived till 1850, when he came to Clinton Co., and bought a claim to the farm where he now lives. He married, in 1836, Ann Corner, a native of County Mayo, Ireland; they have had ten children, none now living, and but one of whom attained adult age- James F., died Oct. 11, 1873, from the effects of an injury received two weeks previous; he married Mary Ann Eberhart; she has two children-Bridget A. and Mary M. Cathy Joynt Labath The Irish in Iowa http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/