THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, translated out of\u00a0the original Greek<\/p>\n
Published and sold by Kimber and Sharpless, 93 Market Street, Philadelphia,\u00a01824. (Brown leather binding, gold embossing and lettering on front and\u00a0spine, violet marbled interior lining, very faded and frayed red book mark\u00a0ribbon bound into spine)<\/p>\n
This 1829 New Testament Bible was given as a betrothal gift to son David\u00a0Williams’s fiancee, Miss Elvyann M. Walker, of Lauderdale County, Tennessee,\u00a0by his father, W. A. Williams in 1841. Sadly the elder Mr. Williams died\u00a0several months prior to the wedding. The Bible remained within the family\u00a0continuously ever since, passing from W. A. Williams, to his son David, to\u00a0David’s daughter, Ellen Louise Williams who carried it to her own wedding to\u00a0Eli Martin on May Day, 1878. It was then presented to Ellen and Eli\u00a0daughter, Albertha Williams Martin, upon her wedding to Albert Carroll\u00a0Cheatham, Sr., of Blytheville Arkansas, on 9\/27\/1916. Mrs. Cheatham loaned\u00a0it to her son, Albert Carroll Cheatham, Jr., for his wedding to Lucy\u00a0Rosemary Robertson on 7\/31\/1940. Upon the death of the elder Mrs. Cheatham,\u00a0it was inherited by Verlie Louise Cheatham Francis, the youngest child of\u00a0Albertha Williams Martin Cheatham, where it remained in very fragile\u00a0condition in a vault in California. It was loaned to the niece of Verlie\u00a0Francis, Cheryll Anne Cheatham Haile, for transcription, shortly before it\u00a0became too fragile to be further handled.<\/p>\n
These are the entries, handwritten on several pages in different inks and\u00a0handwritings in the front and back of the Bible:<\/p>\n
First interior page:<\/p>\n
Joined in Holy Matrimony, this day, before Our Lord, Jesus\u00a0Christ,<\/p>\n
Mr. David Williams and Miss Elvyann M. Walker\u00a0February 10, 1842<\/p>\n
Second page “BIRTHS”<\/p>\n
David Willliams born December 5, 1811<\/p>\n
Elvyann Mannery Walker born December 19, 1818<\/p>\n
Mary Jane Williams born December 16, 1842<\/p>\n
Benjamin W. Williams born July 18, 1844<\/p>\n
Francis A. Willliams born July 5, 1846<\/p>\n
Eliza V. Williams born May 26, 1848<\/p>\n
Phredonia W. Williams born July 14, 1850<\/p>\n
Martha Harriett Williiams born December 3, 1852<\/p>\n
Ellen Louise Williams born October 16, 1855<\/p>\n
Robert A. Williams born march 13, 1858<\/p>\n
Cornelia B. Williams born March 26, 1864<\/p>\n
Max C. Williams born July 8, 1879<\/p>\n
Effie Jenkins born April 20, 1868<\/p>\n
Lillian E. Jenkins born April 5, 1872<\/p>\n
Emily H. Pitts born September 25, 1858<\/p>\n
Rufus Dixon Martin born September 28, 1872<\/p>\n
Beulah Zebulon Martin born February 28, 1879 at Ripley, Tennessee<\/p>\n
William Walker Martin born April 2, 1881, at Ripley, Tennessee<\/p>\n
Lillias Gertrude Martin born January 9, 1884, at Ripley, Tennessee<\/p>\n
Albertha Williams Martin born January 26, 1888, at Ripley, Tennessee<\/p>\n
Eli Van Louis Martin born June 4, 1891 at Henning, Tennessee<\/p>\n
Juanita Martin born May 18, 1895 at Henning, Tennessee<\/p>\n
Lucinda Clementine Pitts, born April 19, 1849<\/p>\n
Thomas Valentine Barnes born 1842<\/p>\n
Sarah A. Burks born November 25, 1831<\/p>\n
R. W. Burks born 1847<\/p>\n
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MARRIAGES<\/p>\n
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David Williams and Elvyann Mannery Walker married February 10, 1842<\/p>\n
Willilam C. Brown and Mary Jane Williams married February 4, 1863<\/p>\n
James R. Jenkins and Francis A. Williams married November 13, 1866<\/p>\n
John T. Martin and Eliza V. Williams married February 15, 1870<\/p>\n
John R. McGaughey and Martha Harriett Williams married December 22, 1870<\/p>\n
Mr. R. W. Burks and Miss Phredonia W. Williams married (smeared)<\/p>\n
Mr. W. C. Burks and Miss Cornelia “Neelie” B. Williams married November 28,\u00a01882<\/p>\n
Robert A. Williams and Emily “Emma” E. Pitts married December 25, 1876<\/p>\n
Thomas V. Barnes and Lucinda C. Pitts married March 7, 1877<\/p>\n
Robert J. Blackwell and Francis A. Martin married March 7, 1877<\/p>\n
Reason L. “Reek” Wood and Sarah J. Currie married November 25, 1831<\/p>\n
Secondly, Reek Wood and Miss Sarah A. Burks married November 29, 1881<\/p>\n
J. R. Burks and Miss Eddi Wood married November 24, 1885<\/p>\n
Secondly, J. R. Burks and Miss Willie House married November 4, 1900<\/p>\n
Eli Martin and Ellen Williams married at Maplewood, Henning Tennessee, May\u00a0Day 1878<\/p>\n
Marriages of Eli and Ellen Martin’s\u00a0Children:<\/p>\n
John Wesley Blythe and Beulah Zebulon Martin married at Blythes Chapel,\u00a0Blytheville, Arkansas,\u00a0October 17, 1897.<\/p>\n
Charles C. Ford and Lillias Gertrude Martin married December 26, 1904,\u00a0Ripley, Tennessee<\/p>\n
Ablert Carroll Cheatham, Sr. and Albertha Williams Martin married at the\u00a0home of the John W. Blythes, Blytheville, Arkansas, September 27, 1916<\/p>\n
Miss Juanita Martin did not marry<\/p>\n
Mr. Eli Van Louis Martin did not marry<\/p>\n
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DEATHS<\/p>\n
George Williams died October 4, 1841. (Father to David, G. R., William,\u00a0Daniel and Turner Williams)<\/p>\n
Absalom Williams died January 19, 1849<\/p>\n
Wilson Williams died Jaunuary 26, 1849<\/p>\n
Sabret Wood died 1836<\/p>\n
Mary E. Thompson Wood died 1839 (wife of Sabret Wood)<\/p>\n
Reason L. “Reek” Wood died 1899 (son of Sabret Wood)<\/p>\n
Sarah Jane Currie Wood died 1879 (1st wife of Reek Wood)<\/p>\n
Sarah A. Burks Wood died 1880 (2nd wife of Reek Wood)<\/p>\n
Belinda S. Arnold died June 22, 1850<\/p>\n
Mary R. Williams died May 10, 1852<\/p>\n
Edwin Williams died July 18, 1851 (son of Emma Williams)<\/p>\n
Benjamin W. Williams died 1863 (son of Emma Williams)<\/p>\n
William A. J. Walker died May 18, 1862<\/p>\n
Robert Walker died June 1, 1863<\/p>\n
Mary A. Walker died January 26, 1866<\/p>\n
Benjamin Williams died November 8, 1875<\/p>\n
James R. Jenkins died October 24, 1876<\/p>\n
David Williams died August 25, 1884 (son of George Williams)<\/p>\n
Elvyann M. Walker Williams died July 3, 1890<\/p>\n
Ellen Louise Williams Martin died February 21, 1915<\/p>\n
Robert A. Williams died May 10, 1908. He was 51 years old.<\/p>\n
Prhedonia Williams Burks died 1928 (wife of R. W. Burks)<\/p>\n
R. W. Burks died 1916<\/p>\n
Mrs. Emma Williams died August 9, 1909. She was 41 years old.<\/p>\n
Emily H. Williams died December 22, 1917<\/p>\n
Lillian Estelle Jenkins died June 11, 1942<\/p>\n
Eliza V. Williams Martin died 1881<\/p>\n
William Walker Martin died December 9, 1881<\/p>\n
David Williams died August 25, 1884 (son of W. A. and Mary Williams)<\/p>\n
Eli Martin died at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee on January\u00a02, 1919<\/p>\n
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(Separate page of handwritten DEATHS)<\/p>\n
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John Wesley Blythe died June 15, 1931, at Blytheville, Arkansas<\/p>\n
Eli Van Louis Martin, WWI U. S. Army Vet, died in Hollywood, California,\u00a0December 10, 1935 of spinal menengitis.<\/p>\n
Juanita Martin died February, 1940 at Garfield Hospital, Washington, D. C.<\/p>\n
Beulah Zebulon Martin Blythe died August 6, 1952 in Blytheville, Arkansas.<\/p>\n
Albertha Williams Martin Cheatham died of cancer 1953, in Shreveport,\u00a0Louisiana<\/p>\n
Gordon Martin Cheatham, Capt. U. S. Army, Vet, died of cancer in 1960 in\u00a0Bethesda, Md., buried in Arlington Memorial Cemetery, Virginia.<\/p>\n
Albert Carroll Cheatham, Sr. died March 1973 in Shreveport, Louisiana, of\u00a0kidney failure.<\/p>\n
Albert Carroll Cheatham, Jr., died March 12, 1993, of heart disease in\u00a0Kenner, Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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