Key Facts

Snapshot:	farmer's wife
Parents:	182Rodie Johnson Sutton 183Mary Chambers
Born:	July 1830 or thereabouts Warren County, Georgia
Last known record:	1900 census Johnson County, Georgia
Buried:	unproven; see below

91Elizabeth Sutton was born in Warren County, Georgia1 in July 18302 or thereabouts.3-6 Her parents are 182Rodie Johnson Sutton and 183Mary Chambers, as explained on a separate page dedicated to evidence of her and her mother's parentage.

90Elizabeth's birthplace is mentioned in the death certificate of her son William Henry Black. Full page.1
Glascock County didn't exist until 1857, when it was created from part of Warren County; the informant for this death certificate failed to remember the change.

Warren County's 1849 tax digest loosely suggests that 91Elizabeth may have moved out of her mother's house before she married—an unusual move for that time.7

91Elizabeth married 90Benjamin Burton Black in Warren County on 17 June 1850.8 For more information about their marriage, their lives together, etc., see his profile since that information won't be repeated here.

She was living in Johnson County in 1900,2 but I have found no other record of her thereafter.

A book by the Johnson County Historical Society claims that 91Elizabeth is buried in an unmarked grave in Dude-Sumner Cemetery, whose location is described as, "about six miles from Wrightsville off Hwy. 15 South. Turn right at Snell Bridge Road and go one fourth miles to old field road on the left. The cemetery is about one mile up the field road in the woods." 9 I think that the "old field road on the left" is at coordinates N32.660 W82.703, although I can't discern much of a road after that. I haven't visited the location in person. Unfortunately, the book does not offer any evidence to prove that 91Elizabeth is indeed buried there.

Sources Cited:

1: Johnson County, Georgia death certificate 31-4036 for William H. Black, who died 24 February 1931. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-MY92-DW?i=148&cc=1385727&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQJX9-NSVJ>, accessed 11 February 2020.

2: 1900 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Johnson County, Georgia. Enumeration district 53, sheets 41B and 42A, dwelling 752, family 776, Burton B Black household. NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 207. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-D1K9-F1K?i=81&cc=1325221&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AM3J8-FMP>.

3: 1850 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Warren County, Georgia. Page 130B, dwelling 62, family 62, William Black household. NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 86. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XCML-2N?cc=1401638&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMZY6-7VC>.

4: 1870 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Militia district 96, Washington County, Georgia. Page 23, dwelling 191, family 187, Burt W. Black household. NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 182. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DTBS-4YM?i=22&cc=1438024&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMCQ9-CYW>.

5: 1880 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Militia district 1234, Glascock County, Georgia. Enumeration district 32, page 29, dwelling 261, family 261, Berton Black household. NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 148. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYT-99NZ?i=6&cc=1417683&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AM8GM-1T9 >.

6: 1860 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Washington County, Georgia. Page 203, dwelling 334, family 326, Benjamin B Black household. NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 140. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYBT-8KT?cc=1473181&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMZM4-P1W>.

7: Warren County, Georgia. Tax digest for 1849, section for Kent's district 151, page 14, entry for Elizabeth Sutton. Ancestry.com ("Georgia, U.S., Property Tax Digests, 1793-1892" / Warren / 1849 / images 29 and 30 of 122), accessed 21 July 2023.

8: Warren County, Georgia. Marriage book for the years 1848-1873, page 50, marriage of Benjamin Black and Elizabeth Sutton. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BZ3-ZLB?cc=1927197&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AKXJK-6C7>, accessed 27 January 2020.

9: Johnson County Historical Society, Searching for Our Ancestors Among the Gravestones: A Cemetery Record of Johnson County, Georgia, 2nd edition (Johnson County Historical Society, 2000), pages 212-213.