Bibles

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The Life of Our Blessed Lord & Savior Jesus Christ by Rev. John Fleetwood. Printed in Welsh. Inscription in front of volume: “Presented by his Parents, to their son Isaac Lewis, Now Residing at Knoxville, Tennessee, South America.” May 24, 1873. No family entries. Cover loose and some loose pages.

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Isbell Family Bible and its contents. “The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments” (Philadelphia:: C, Alexander & Co., 1834)

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Family Bible of Jacob L. Thomas, 1869. Five loose items found in the Bible were placed in one 5x7” envelope and are in the box with the Bible. Also, one 1876 photograph of the C. J. McClung residence is in a folder in the box with the Bible. The photograph was broken in two pieces when received.

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James Alexander Lindsey McColloch Family Bible. First Families of Tennessee application of Lacy Porter McColloch, a direct descendant of Thomas McCulloch (photocopy); James Alexander Lindsey McColloch and wife Mary Louana Dyer McColloch (1910 copy of 1860 photograph); ribbon printed “ Boonsboro [Ark.] Y.P.S.C.E. 1890.”

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Bible of James Anderson (family of Isaac Anderson, founder and first president of Maryville College). 1809 Bible published by Thomas Scott, Philadelphia. Includes list of Subscriber’s names (many from East Tennessee).

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Family Bible of James O’Brien (1786-1842) and wife Susanna (or Susan) D. Everett O”Brien (1802-1853). Their daughter Eliza O’Brien married William G. Brownlow. No title page--photocopy of a title page came with the Bible.

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Family Bible of James Park, Knoxville. 5 volumes of Scott’s Bible, 1811. Vol. IV supposed to contain ‘loose leaves’ with family entries. These sheets could not be located in searches in 1980 and 1982.

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The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments together with the Apocrypha. Published by Wanzer, Foote, & Co.

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James S. Mitchell Bible with Mitchell, Smith and Simerly families. “The Holy BIble Containing the Old and New Testaments” published by Henry S. Goodspeed Co., New York and Cincinnati, 1877.

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Family Bible of James White and Mary Lawson White. Includes Carrick and Williams surnames. Funeral notice for Hugh L. White, 1840, inserted with family information. Bible printed for Matthew Carey, 1802.

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The Mrs. Jane Jacques bible was published in Oxford by Oxford University Press in 1864. The only inscription is “Mrs. Jane Jacques, Knoxville, Nov. 7, 1871.” The Swiss French New Testament of the bible was published by the Societe Biblioque Protestante de Paris in 1860. It is inscribed “Jean Etienne Albert” at his first communion.

Scope and Contents June 29, 1868, letter from Jane McCartney Doren, Columbus, O., to Pastor, Mars Hill Presbyterian Church, Athens, McMinn County, Tenn. ALS 6 pp. (2 pcs.) Re: she was one of the first members of Mars Hill Presbyterian Church when it organized in 1822; asks what churches are still there and in Blount County and their ministers; left 20 years ago with no friends there; predicted war based on slavery; taught by Dr. Pearson, Dr. Anderson, Rev. Mr. Eagleton; mentions mothers of slain soldiers, no...

Scope and Contents Family papers of Jesse Brown (1776-1847) of Washington County, Va., and Carter County, Tenn., and descendants, especially Jesse Brown's son Elijah Brown (1817-1891) of Blount County, Tenn., as well as his family and descendants. The gift includes four Bibles, three having family records (Jesse Brown, Enoch Dexter Brown, and W. R. Hood-S. A. Rule). The collection includes a handmade record book on Jesse Brown's family, as well as land transaction documents regarding tracts in the following...

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The Holy Bible Containing the New and Old Testaments together with the Apocrypha. Published by J. B. Lippincott and Company. Includes family information on loose pages for Hall, Jones, and Saunders families. As well as a receipt dated June 13, 1900 and card dated 1871.

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Bible presented to John Cox in 1882 by Mrs. Elizabeth Black.

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No family information. The bible is inscribed John G. Evans to the “Welsh Ladies of Knoxville.”

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1727 Welsh Bible of John Lewis, containing family entries. Bible was given in memory of Col. Lew Wallace Lewis, father of A. R. Lewis. Bible has a cloth cover (not original).

Scope and Contents Collection of Fain family papers from East Tennessee. Includes: diaries of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain (1816-1892), dating from 1834 to 1892; military papers of Richard G. Fain; papers from the Mossy Creek Cotton Mill, 1862-1879; account books, Bible entries for Fain and Anderson families; photographs; almanacs; recipes; slaves to Liberia (folder 31); Rhea family genealogy; Elizabeth Rhea Anderson diary; Hiram Fain diary; patent medicine circulars; ephemera. 11 boxes of processed material....

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John Sevier (1810-1862) Family Bible. He was the grandson of Governor John Sevier. Includes original family entries and two sets of additional family records from other Bibles. Also includes one 1859 letter to Daughter from Pa and a loose clipping. Gift of Mrs. James A. Lynn, Memphis, Tenn. This bible is “The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments”published by McCarty & Davis in Philadelphia in 1829.

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New Testament belonging to John W. Green. “The New Testament of our Lord and Saviiour Jesus Christ” published in London by Eyre & Spottiswood. Includes family information on the fly leaf and an inscription “Jno. W. Green from my friend Joshua W. Caldwell.”

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Bible presented to Mrs. M E. Johnson by Walter Chamberlin, Dec. 25, 1901. Contains entries for Johnson, Chamberlin, Berger, and Galyon. Bible title page is missing, some loose pages, cover loose. Also includes several unidentified photographs, and other small items.

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The bible was published by Gregg Elliot & Co. in Philadelphia in 1847. The first person listed is Jonathan Tipton born 1775.

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Family Bible of Joseph F. Baumann, Knoxville, Tenn. Donor is a descendant of the Lockett family. The Holy BIble containing the Old and New Testaments published in Philadelphia by A. J. Holman & Co. in 1878.

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The bible was published in Edinburgh by Mark and Charles Kerr in 1791.

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Additional inscription with the bible: Leaving Liverpool April 26, 1842, Joseph Jaques (1825-1885) with his parents, sister, and niece. Arrived Baltimore June 12, 1842.

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Bible of the Rhea Family (M. Rhea, 1972).

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Newton Jackson Lillard Family Bible 1868. No Title Page. New Testament title page only.

James Lillard Family Bible. 1848. No Title Page. New Testament title page only.

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The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha. Published in Auburn and Buffalo by John E. Beardsley, with no copyright or publication date. Lockett family Bible contains inscription in frontispiece: “This bible was owned by Mrs. T. C. Lockett, wife of David W. Lockett. They were married Dec. 9, 1830” Donor is descendant of the Lockett family.

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The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments as Translated out of the Original Tongues. Published by A. J. Holman & Co. Inscribed on flyleaf “To Margaret Hall from her father and mother, James S. and Carrie R. Hall, June 19, 1900”

Scope and Contents The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated from the Greek. Published by Nathan Hale and Alexander Price. “Martha Stakely” imprinted on a label on the front board. “Martha A. Stakely” written in pencil on the fly leaf. Includes program for Southern Female College, La Grange, Georgia commencement exercises (dated June 1894) Includes note “Dec 5 1886, Big Snow 14 Inches deep, commencing on the night of the 3rd Dec and continuing constantly until the middle of the night of...