This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Black, Turley, Porter, Woyoan, Eden, Forsey, Sites, Midkiff Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZCC.2ACE/992 Message Board Post: W. T. Black, Methodist Cleric, Dies - The Rev. W. T. Black, 83, of Myra, a licensed minister of the Methodist Church for 50 years and a former postmaster at Myra, died Saturday night in a Huntington hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 P.M. tomorrow at the Myra Methodist Church by the Rev. Ebb Cummings, the Rev. Enos Scraggs, the Rev. Harvey Sullivan and the Rev. Jack Shy. Burial will follow in the Black Cemetery at Myra. Pallbearers will be Ernie Neal, Hallie Edwards, Scott Hauldren, Ray Elkins, Charles Yeager and Riley Miller. Mr. Black was a former merchant and had extensive natural gas holdings. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Ethel Black; two daughters, Mrs. Mabel Turley and Mrs. Addie Porter, both of Hamlin; four sons, Fred Black of Yawkey, Hal Black of Hamlin, R.L. Black of Lancaster, O., and Raymond Black of Myra; a stepson, Clyde Woyoan of Cincinnati; a brother, A.F. Black of Albuquerque, N.M.; four sisters, Mrs. B.F. Eden, Mrs. W.E. Forsey, Mrs. Garfield Sites and Mrs. Frank Midkiff, all of Jackson, O.; and 25 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. The body has been taken to the home from the Koontz Funeral Home at Hamlin. Source: "Huntington Herald Dispatch" Monday, Oct 5, 1953