Bynum Ferrell Black (1871 - 1944)

Born 28 Mar 1871 in Williford, Sharp County, Arkansas, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Elizabeth (English) Black — married 1892 in Randolph County, Arkansas, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Feb 1944 at age 72 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States

Biography

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Listed in The Preachers of Ligon's Portraiture.

Obituary from the Gospel Advocate:

Bynum Black was born in Sharp County, Ark., March 28, 1871.

He and Sister Black were reared in the same county in Arkansas. They were married in November of 1892. Their home continued to be in Arkansas for about twenty-two years.

In 1914 they moved to Oklahoma, and he has continued to live here for the last thirty years. About fifteen years of this time he lived in McAlester, and the last fifteen years in Oklahoma City.

Brother Black was baptized one Sunday afternoon when twenty-two years of age, and preached his first sermon the following Sunday. This was the beginning of several years Brother Black spent in preaching the gospel of Christ in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Most of his work consisted of evangelistic meetings and public discussions. His only local work was with the Capitol Hill congregation, in Oklahoma City, in 1932 and 1933. Much of this work was of the missionary type, and he is known as one of the pioneer preachers of Oklahoma.

There are three small books written by him that are well known: "Fifty Reasons for Not Being a Baptist," "Sixty-Four Bombshells in the Mormon Ranks," and "Thirty-Six Plain Contradictions Between Methodism and the Bible."

Some of his close friends were: W. A. Shults. J. Will Henley, J. W. Chism. J. H. Lawson, Joe Blue, Joe Warlick, Joe Crumley, and L.E. Steward.

His last meeting was conducted in the same place where he conducted his first meeting, and in each meeting there were fifteen who obeyed the gospel.

Brother Black suffered much sickness in the last few years of his life, which resulted in his death Wednesday, February 2, at the age of seventy-three ..

Surviving him are his wife and nine children- seven boys and two girls. The funeral service was conducted at the Capitol Hill Church, Oklahoma City, by K. C. Moser, Yater Tant, and Hubert Roach. ---Hubert Roach, Gospel Advocate, Feb. 24, 1944, 151.

He married Margaret Elizabeth English in Yadkin, Randolph Co., Ark. Nov. 3, 1892.

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Marie Mills, Dec 30, 2011

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNW5-CSG : 14 July 2016), Alexander Black, North, Sharp, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 187, sheet 80D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0057; FHL microfilm 1,254,057.

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