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| 1800 | "Emmet's Rebellion" - a haphazard plot for Irish independence -- fails in Ireland. Robert Emmet is hung and Hugh Toland Sr., Hugo Black's maternal great grandfather, and others flee to America. |  1800 |
| 1817 | George Walker Black, Hugo's paternal grandfather, is born in Georgia. | |
| 1848 | Martha Ardellah Toland, Hugo's mother, is born in Laurens County, South Carolina; Hugo's father, William Lafayette Black, is born in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. | |
| 1861 | Columbus Black, Lafayette's older brother and Della Toland's sweetheart, joins the Confederate Army in Auburn after the American Civil War breaks out. |  1863 |
| 1863 | Columbus Black dies at the Battle of Gettysburg. | |
| 1868 | Fayette Black marries Della Toland at her father's home in newly formed Clay County, Alabama. | |
| 1870 | Robert Lee, first child of Fayette and Della Black, is born in Harlan, Alabama. | |
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