A Brief History of the Bible<\/p>\n
Given as a betrothal gift to his son David’s fiancee, Miss Elvyann Mannery Walker, of Lauderdale County, Tennessee, by his father, William Absalom Willliams in 1841. Sadly the elder Mr. Williams died several months prior to his son’s wedding. This Bible has been within the family since its origins. It was originally bought by Levin Wood, cousin of W. A., from a traveling Bible salesman who passed through the area in the late 1820’s. It passed from Wood to William Absalom Williams, to his son, David Williams, then on to David’s daughter, Ellen Louise Williams, who carried it to her own wedding to Mr. Eli Martin, in Lauderdale County, Tennessee on May 1, 1878. Later it was carried by their daughter, Albertha Williams Martin, to her wedding to Mr. Albert Carroll Cheatham, Sr. of Blytheville, Arkansas, on 9\/27\/1916. Mrs. Cheatham kept it until her death in 1953, in which it then passed to Mr. Cheatham’s second wife, Grace. Grace Cheatham then passed it to her step-daughter, Verlie Louise Cheatham upon her marriage to Col. Richard Francis. Upon her recent death, it became the property of Verlie Francis’s niece, Cheryll Cheatham Haile, of Atlanta, Georgia. It was addended to and corrected for publication and reprint in 2000 for all interested parties. Sadly the deteriorating condition of the Bible prevents it from being circulated further, and is currently in a hermetically sealed vault in Apple Valley, California.<\/p>\n
Copied from the original Wood\/Williams\/Martin Family Bible of 1829, owned by William Absalom Williams, Esquire, of Lauderdale County, Tennessee.<\/p>\n
An asterisk (*) marks corrections and additions to the original.<\/p>\n
Marriages<\/strong> Births<\/strong> Deaths<\/strong> (*handwritten on added notes) Eli Martin died at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, on January 2, 1919 after a brief illness. He was the son of Zebulon Martin and Lucinda Shoemake Martin Mahan (*daughter of William and Martha Shoemake) and the husband of Ellen Louise Martin Williams. He was also father to Beulah, Lillias, Albertha, Eli Van Louis, and Juanita Martin.<\/p>\n Eli Van Louis Martin, WWI Army Veteran, died at L. A. County Hospital, Hollywood, Ca. 12\/10\/1935 of menengitis. He was cremated and his ashes are buried in Hollywood City Cemetery. He was 44 years old. He had changed his name to Glenn Martin Watson. He never married, and he had no children.<\/p>\n Juanita Martin died 2\/1940 in Washington, D. C. where she worked for many years for the FBI. She was 45 years old. She never married, and she had no children.<\/p>\n Albertha William Martin Cheatham died in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1953 of ovarian cancer. She was 65 years old.<\/p>\n Gordon Martin Cheatham, Capt. U. S. Army Korean War Vet, died in 1960 in Bethesda, Md. of testicular cancer. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Va. He was 34 years old.<\/p>\n Albert Carroll Cheatham, Jr. died of heart disease on 3\/12\/1993 in Kenner, Louisiana. He was 72 years old. The son of Albert, Sr. and Albertha Cheatham, he was a WWII vet, husband to Lucy Rosemary Robertson Cheatham, and father to Cheryll Anne Cheatham (Haile) and Pamela Jean Cheatham (Estevez).<\/p>\n Verlie Louise Cheatham Francis died 6\/30\/1994 of breast cancer, in Bakersfield, California. She was 64 years old. She is buried near her home in Apple Valley, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Brief History of the Bible Given as a betrothal gift to his son David’s fiancee, Miss Elvyann Mannery Walker, of Lauderdale County, Tennessee, by his father, William Absalom Willliams in 1841. Sadly the elder Mr. Williams died several months …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[60,59,61],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","tag-martin","tag-williams","tag-wood"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*Sabret Wood married Elizabeth Busick 1735 in Maryland
\n*Levin Wood (son of Sabret) married Elizabeth Byrn June 29, 1797
\nWilliam Absalom Williams maried Mary Hudson December 25, 1798 in Virginia
\n*Sabret Wood (grandson of Sabret) married Mary Eleanor Thompson February 8, 1820 in North Carolina
\n*Reason “Reek” Wood (son of Sabret II) married Sarah J. Currie Nov. 25, 1831
\nDavid Williams married Elvyann Mannery Walker February 10, 1842
\nWilliam C. Brown married Mary Jane Willliams February 4, 1863
\nJames R. Jenkins married Francis A. Williams November 13, 1866
\nJohn T. Martin married Eliza Verlie Williams February 15, 1870
\nJohn R. McGaughey married martha Harriett Williams December 22, 1870
\nRobert W. Burks married Phredonia W. Williams 1872, in Ripley, Tennessee
\nWilliam Cornelius “Big Neelie” Burks and Cornelia “Neelie” B. Williams married Nov. 28, 1882
\nRobert A. Williams and Emily E. Pitts married December 25, 1876 in a centennial holiday celebration in Lauderdale Co.
\nRobert J. Blackwell and Francis A. Martin married March 7, 1877
\nReason L. “Reek” Wood and Sarah A. Burks (2nd) married Nov. 29, 1881
\nEli Zebulon Martin married Ellen Louise Williams on May Day, 1878 in a holiday celebration at home in Henning, Tenn.
\nJohn Wesly Blythe married Beulah Zebulon Martin October 17, 1897
\nCharles Carson Ford and Lillias Gertrude Martin married December 26, 1904
\nAlbert Carroll Cheatham married Albertha Williams Martin at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Blythe 9\/27\/1916
\n*Juanita Martin did not marry
\n*Eli Van Louis Martin did not marry<\/p>\n
\nDavid Williams born Dec. 5. 1811
\nElvyann Mannery Walker born 12\/19\/1818
\nMary Jane Williams born 12\/16\/1842
\nBenjamin Williams born 7\/18\/1844
\nFrancis A. Williams born 7\/5\/1846
\nEliza Verlie Williams born 5\/26\/1848
\nPhredonia W. Williams born 7\/14\/1850
\nMartha Harriett Williams born 12\/3\/181852
\nEllen Louise Williams born 10\/16\/1855
\nRobert A. Williams born 3\/13\/1858
\nCornelia B. Williams born 3\/26\/1864
\nEffie L. Jenkins born 4\/20\/1868
\nLillian E. Jenkins born 4\/5\/1872
\nMax C. Williams born 7\/8\/1879
\nEmily E. Pitts born 9\/25\/1858
\nBeulah Zebulon Martin born 2\/28\/1879 in Ripley, Tenn.
\nWilliam Walker Martin born 4\/2\/1881 in Ripley, Tenn.
\nLillias Gertrude Martin born 1\/9\/1884 in Ripley, Tenn.
\nAlbertha Williams Martin born 1\/26\/1888 in Ripley, Tenn.
\nEli Van Louis Martin born 6\/4\/1891 in Henning, Tenn.
\nJuanita Martin born 5\/18\/1896 in Henning, Tenn.
\nAlbert Carroll Cheatham, Jr. born 9\/17\/1919 in Blytheville, Ark.
\nGordon Martin Cheatham born 1926 in Shreveport, Louisiana
\nVerlie Louise Cheatham born 6\/26\/1933 in Shreveport, Louisiana<\/p>\n
\nGeorge Williams died 10\/4\/1841 (father to (*cousin)David, G. R., William, Daniel, and Turner)
\nAbsalom Williams died 1\/19\/1849
\nWilson Williams died 1\/26\/1849
\nSabret Wood (I) died 1836
\nMary E. Thompson Wood died 1839 (wife of Sabret)
\nReason “Reek” Wood died 1899 (son of Sabret II)
\nSarah Jane Currie died 1879 (1st wife of Sabret Wood)
\nSarah A. Burks died 1880 (2nd wife of Sabret Wood)
\nBelinda S. Arnold died June 22, 1850
\nMary R. Williams died 5\/10\/1852
\nEdwin Williams died 7\/18\/1851 (son of Emma Williams)
\nBenjamin W. Williams died 1863 (son of Emma Williams)
\nWilliam A. J. Walker died 5\/18\/1862
\nRobert Walker died 6\/1\/1863
\nMary A. Walker died 1\/26\/1866
\nBenjamin Williams died 11\/8\/1875
\nJames R. Jenkins died 10\/24\/1876
\nDavid Williams died 8\/25\/1884 (*son of William Absalom and Mary Williams)
\nElvyann Mannery Walker Williams died 7\/3\/1890
\nEllen Louise Williams Martin died 2\/21\/1915
\nRobert A. Williams died 5\/10\/1908 (He was 51 years old)
\nPhredonia “Phee” W. Williams died 1928 (*wife of R. W. Burks)
\nRobert W. Burks died 1916
\nEmma Williams died 8\/9\/1909. (She was 41 years old)
\nEmily H. Williams died 12\/22\/1917
\nLillian Estelle Jenkins died 6\/11\/1942
\n*Eliza Verlie Williams Martin died 1881
\n*William Walker Martin died in infancy 12\/9\/1881<\/p>\n