Jim Black was born to Jeptha Norton and Susannah M Williams Black in Habersham County, Georgia. His actual date of birth is abt 1854 not 1845. The birthdate on his death certificate is in error from false report or transcription error. His brother Isaac was born in 1845 and all censuses report date of abt 1854.His 1st wife was Hannah Holcomb who moved to Tennessee. They had 3 boys Samuel Nicholas (Nick), George Walter, and Joseph Edward (Ed) Black. Jim and Nora Angeline Cornett had 14 children, 5 unnamed died in infancy. Ila Mae and Elsie, 2 daughters, also died shortly after birth. The remaining children were Jesse Frank, Lillie Ester Ioma, Sarah L (Sallie), Earnest J., Verner R., Walter Clyde, and Charlie M Black. Jim and Nora lived most of their adulthood in the Hall, Jackson and Banks County area. He served in the civil war from 1864-1865 and later received a pension. He was mostly a farmer by trade but did work for the railroad around 1900 where he lost a leg in a work related incident. To help support the family, his oldest 2 children, Jesse and Lillie, worked in the woolen mill in Gainesville, Hall Co., Ga. when they were under 10 years of age. They were working when the terrible "cyclone" of 1903 came through the area and killed a lot of the workers including many of the young children. Jim took his family to Jackson County where they mostly farmed and sharecropped the rest of his life. Jim enjoyed reading and studying the Bible and although he was not ordained as a minister, he filled in for the pastors as needed in the surrounding area Baptist Churches. The family were members of Beaverdam Baptist Church where this cemetery is located. He is buried in an unmarked grave according to his grand daughters, who were born and partly raised in Jackson County, before moving away about 1940. It is also listed on his death certificate as place of burial.They returned to visit their grandmother Nora and the rest of the family several times before Nora's death in 1951.I visited this cemetery 21 March 2016 and was unable to verify his gravesite. There are many unmarked graves in this cemetery.