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Harriet Colyer^{[1, 2, 3]}
1818 - 1901

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• Birth	27 Sep 1818	Virginia   [4]
  Gender	Female
  Died	23 Apr 1901  [2, 3, 5]
  Buried	Rock Lick Baptist Church Pulaski County KY
  Person ID	I0852	John Colyer family of Somerset Ky
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2026

  
  

  Father	John Colyer,   b. 20 Aug 1781, Henry County, VA ,   d. 18 Aug 1851, Ruth, Ky (reported somewhere from Typhoid fever)
  Mother	Lydia Memes Purvis,   b. 26 May 1798, North Carolina ,   d. 25 Dec 1874, Pulaski county, KY
  Married	6 Jan 1818
  Family ID	F051	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Samuel Black,   b. 26 Mar 1803,   d. 21 Dec 1874
  Married	6 Nov 1837	Pulaski Co., Kentucky   [1, 3]
  Children	> 1. Manerva Ann Black,   b. 02/19/1842,   d. 19 Feb 1882, per finda-grave
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2017
  Family ID	F329	Group Sheet

  
  

  Married	6 Nov 1837	Pulaski Co., Kentucky   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F243	Group Sheet

  
  

• Documents

  1866 Harriet Colyer Black purchase deed 108 acres Blaze Valley from estate of her father, John Colyer Deed says that Cyrenius Wait had held up estate settlement, and heirs of John Colyer file lawsuit against Cyrenius and win, so the court orders sale of land and slaves of John Colyer in March 1859. At the court sale, Harriet Black, purchases 108 acres for $706. Son of John Colyer..Stephen Colyer deceased 1855 and his estate settlment shows John Colyer at death owned 200 acre homeplace on Pitman creek, and 108 acre on Pitman creek waters and 250 acre coal lands. This deed in Blaze Valley was evidently the 108 acres on pitman creek waters that was not the homeplace.

  
  

• Sources

  [S05088] Collierj.ftw--Tim Jeffries, Cincinnati OH, Tim Jeffries, Cincinnatti OH. Date of Import: Aug 6, 1998 [S14494] Alice Colyer Gala. Date of Import: Sep 19, 1998 [S27813] ColyerV2.FTW. Date of Import: Sep 30, 1998 [S01710] Kate Smith Collier file # 3 - Walter W. Smith Collection. [S01737] Richard Curtis files.