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David Estis Black

People

In the record

1935–before 7 November 2021

David Estis Black

Family members confirm he is the 1960 Salt Lake speaker.

David Estis Black was born in 1935, a son of Millard William Black and Eda Johnson, and a nephew of Warren Black. He is the speaker identified with the 1960 Salt Lake talks labeled David Black. A death date has not yet been found; a 2021 obituary of his son says the father had already died.

David Estis Black was born on 22 July 1935, a son of Millard William Black and Eda Johnson. An extract of Arizona Department of Health Services birth records for Mohave County lists him under that spelling, that date, and those parents.1 Millard William Black was a brother of Warren Black, so David was Warren’s nephew.2 Later family records and a published funeral notice also use the spelling David Estes Black.3

A funeral notice published after the death of David Andrew Black (21 June 1963–7 November 2021) names his parents as David Estes and Alida Witt Black, and says he was preceded in death by his father, David E. Black. That notice does not give a death date for the father. No separate obituary or cemetery record for David Estis Black has yet been found, so this page records only that he had died by 7 November 2021.4

The 1960 Salt Lake City speaker labeled David Black is this man, as confirmed by family members. The automatic transcripts of those recordings introduce a young man who had been away in “Uncle Sam’s” jurisdiction — that is, in military service — and, on the 28 May recording, name “Brother David Black.” He would have been 24.5

This page is about David Estis Black, son of Millard William Black and Eda Johnson. It is not a page for other people named David Black.

Appearances

1960

  1. TalkDavid Black, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 2:53:122:24
  2. TalkDavid Black, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 2:50:512:34

The 22 May and 28 May talks are short, separately labeled recordings with very similar wording. The 28 May talk is the clearer introduction. The general-meeting pages are the longer parent recordings from those dates.

Sources

  1. “1926–1936 Birth Records in Mohave County, AZ,” GenealogyTrails, extracted from an Arizona Department of Health Services database, compiled by BZ: “BLACK, DAVID ESTIS,” date 1935.07.22, father Millard William Black, mother Eda Johnson. https://genealogytrails.com/ariz/mohave/births1926-1936_oldformat.html.
  2. Black Book (Black family history; compiler and date unknown), p. 1, family portrait for James Edwin Black and Sarah Lavinia Foote, naming their sons James Warren Black and Millard William Black. A public Black family genealogy likewise lists David Estes Black as a son of Millard William Black and Eda Johnson, and Millard as a son of James Edwin Black and Sarah Lavinia Foote. winkel.org family page.
  3. The same winkel.org genealogy uses the spelling “David Estes Black.” The 2021 funeral notice cited below uses “David Estes” and “David E. Black.” The Arizona birth extract cited above uses “David Estis.”
  4. “David Andrew Black,” funeral notice, Spilsbury Mortuary, St. George, Utah, for a death on 7 November 2021, also published as “David Andrew Black,” Cedar City News / cedarcityutah.com, 15 November 2021: born 21 June 1963, “the first of 10 children born to David Estes and Alida Witt Black”; “preceded in death by his father, David E. Black.” Cedar City News notice.
  5. Archive recordings labeled David Black: Salt Lake City, 22 May 1960, catalog 5ee7360625b5, 2:24; and Salt Lake City, 28 May 1960, catalog 98f3fb0fe053, 2:34, whose automatic transcript includes the introduction “Brother David Black will address.” 22 May talk; 28 May talk.