Bibles

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The Pictorial Family BIble (Jones Bros,, 1881) Inscribed Byington, Tenn.

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Family Bible of Daniel (1791-1860) and Betsy Meek (1791-1871), Strawberry Plains, Tenn. Bible printed in 1840.

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The bible was published in Edinburgh by Alexander Kincaid in 1792. The bible of Darby McCarty containing entries for McCarty and Hamblen families. Two pages containing family entries were loose from the Bible and have been placed in an acid-free folder in the box with the Bible.

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Welsh Bible owned by David Jeffres. Missing front board and title pages. Entire Bible is present , but appears to have been rebound at some point out of order. One page of family information (1812-1849)

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Deatherage and Durham Family Bible, 1873. + Family Bible of David Carson Sparks and wife Arminta Angeline Wilson Sparks, [1870]. Includes handwritten copy of the birth and death dates of the Robert and Mary Allen family of Blount Co., Tenn, written by David Carson Sparks.

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(no title page) from NT page: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Translated Out of the Original Greek; and with the Form Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. American Bible Society: New York, 1851. Front board completely separated from bible; bible split in two between OT and NT.

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Bible with family entries for Drake, Stephens, and Travis families. Bible dated 1807. Poor condition.

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Dunn - Coppage Families Bible with family entries for Coppage, Dunn, and Douglas families, 1809- 1900. Also a few entries for Kemper and Purdy families. Bible was published in 1859. Back cover is loose from the Bible.

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Family Bible given to Eliza R. Fain by her mother M.A. Moore, 1870. Eliza Ruth Moore married George Alexander Fain on July 21, 1854. Eliza R. Fain left the Bible to her daughter Kittie Rice Fain in November 1900. Eleven CDVs of Fain family members were found with the Bible. They were photocopied and the originals are in the box with the Bible. Subjects in CDVs include: Mrs. Eliza R. Fain and Mattie, Minnie Fain, Mrs. M.A. Moore, Belle Fain, and E.R. Fain.

Scope and Contents Minutes of Big Spring Church of United Baptists (1822-1870), McMinn County, Tenn (Isaac and Sarah Lane were initial members). Roster of members transcribed 10.2010. Three bibles: Isaac Lane Bible (1803), Frankie Sherman Rasnake Bible (1874) (no family entries), and the Tola Sherman Bible (no date)(no family entries). Land entry no. 2573 for Thomas Shearman/Sherman, McMinn County, Tennessee, March 5, 1826. Blueprint copy of “Timberlake’s Map of Overhill Indian Towns, May 3, 1906. Letter to...

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Bible with entries for Engell and Planck family members. Engell family possibly from Cherry Valley, Otswego County, New York (see 1850 census).

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Ettie V. Phipps Bible. Belonged to Ettie V. Phipps of Fox, Virginia, and contains 1 entry: the marriage of Ettie to James Gordon Bare in 1911. The Bible is approximately 4 x 6 x 2" and was published in 1901.

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Bible with family entries of the Thomas Flournoy family. Bible dated 1872.

Scope and Contents Foute Family Bible. Foute Family Bible. Holy Bible (“Pronouncing, Parallel Bible”) The King James & the Revised Versions of the Old & New Testaments Arranged in Parallel Columns, the text conformable to that of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (Richmond, Va.: B.F. Johnson & Co., 1892). Presented to Josaphine [sic] E. Foute by W. T. Foute, January 1, 1896. Bible contains black & white and color illustrations and has gilt-edged pages. Contents include marriage, birth,...

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Pages from the Fowler Family Bible with family information. American Bible Society; New York, 1883. And photographs of family tombstones. Includes typed page "Composite Family Bible Record" from the family Bible of James Hornsby (McCLUNG DOES NOT HAVE THE ORIGINAL)

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The Holy Bible Old and New Testaments Translated out of the Original Tongues (New York: American Bible Society, 1890)

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Family Bible of George Franklin Campbell (1861-1914) and Mattie Alice Ross Campbell (1862-1933). Holy Bible printed by A. J. Holman & Co., Philadelphia, 1888. + folder of loose items from the Bible including one mourning card, several photographs, and clippings.

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George Grove diary, ca. 1830s (Flat Creek area of Knox County, Tenn). Mostly family and farm entries. Also, family Bible of George Grove (1779-1860) and Sarah (Sally) Willett Grove (1783-1854).

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German language Bible (no family entries). 1870. Identified as a German Bible written for German-Americans and presumed to have belonged to a German P.O.W. near Crossville, Tenn. in WWII.

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Family Bible of the Giffin Family (G. W. L. Giffin). Also includes Martha Frances McFall McDonald (Mrs. William McDonald). The Holy Bible. Philadelphia: A.J. Holman & Co. ca. 1890. Also, folder with copies of Bible entries, copies of census records, William McDonald’s transcribed obituary (Knoxville News-Sentinel, April 2, 2003), and newspaper clippings.

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Family record of the Gorley family, removed from Bible.

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Graham, Jeffries, Swann Bible. Printed by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, 1807. Hand-bound with cloth cover. The Bible came down in the family through Victoria Graham Swann (descended from William Graham of King’s Mountain Fame and her maternal grandfather was Nathaniel Jeffries, a Revolutionary soldier from Gaffney S.C.). Victoria Graham married James Preston Swann of Dandridge, Tenn, in 1858. Their residence , named Squirewood, was in Dandridge.

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The bible is missing the front and back boards and last pages. The book was published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1784. There is no family information in the bible. Inscribed on the fly leaf “H. James Gass”

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Also contains several clippings, a copy of New-Church Messenger (volume 85; No 6; 12 August 1903; Rev. S. C. Eby, editor). The Latest Illustrated Polyglot Family Bible (Old and New Testaments with Apochrypha) published by C. F. Vent. Family entries 1891-1920 (only deaths)

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The New Testament Red Letter Edition ... World Publishing Company. Contains entries (many faded and hard to read) of the Hartness family. Clate Hartness family.

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Family Bible (published 1874) of Hays, Green, Greene, Larrance families. Includes marriage record of William L. Hays and Sarah Larrance, New Market, Tenn. Poor condition.

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Holman's Edition. The Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised; with references and various readings. Philadelphia: A. J. Holman & Co. 1873 Front cover stamped "Eliza M. Heiskell"

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James P. and Annie E. Burchfiel Henderson Bible. Sevier County, Tenn. Copyright 1890. Gift of F. Robert Henderson. Bible cover and spine damaged and have masking tape.

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Title page missing and bottom of the bible singed by fire. The bible was published by Matthew Carey in Philadelphia in 1802.

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Family Bible of Hugh Lawson White (labeled Scott’s Commentary on the spine). Family entries are in volume one (have been photocopied and added to White Genealogy VF). Volumes 2-4 contains no family entries. 1825 publishing date in Bible.