Sunday, July 8, 1900

8th, went to S.S. & Church, then to BYPU & prayer meeting at night. Bro. Robinson was sick & unable to preach. Bro. Black led the meeting.

Further on in 1906, Jesse mentions T. C. Black being elected as a deacon to Utica Baptist Church.  This may be the same Brother Black mentioned here in his 1900 entry.  Thomas Crimley Black was a farmer born in 1852 in Pennsylvania and living next to the Schmid Family in the 1900 federal census for Green Township.  He lived in Livingston County since moving there with his parents in 1869.  In 1890 he married widow Emma Baltis in 1890 and they had a son named Robert Alden Black.