“Parallel-Column Editor, The New Testament of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ, Translated out of the Greek, Being the Version set forth AD 1611. Arranged in Parallel Columns with The Revised Version of AD 1881, Together with the Readings & Renderings Preferred by the American Revisers. Text Conformable to that of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.”

Front Pages missing – above from beginning of New Testament. Bible in possession of Alton McClain, 2115 Denham Avenue, Columbia, Tenn., copied 15 mar 1970 by Marise P. Lightfoot.

*(note: Since the printing of “They Passed This Way.” by Maurise Lightfoot, 1976; the family Bible of James W. Kennedy has been passed on to Teresa, the daughter of Ara Alton McClain. Alton passed away July 11, 2003.

BIRTHS

• Weakley Gorden Kennedy was born Sept. 6th in the year of 1829.
• His wife Sarah A. Kennedy was born October 23 in the year of 1834.
• The father and mother’s children –
• Amanda Elizabeth Kennedy was born April 26 in the year of 1853.
• Robert Franklin Kennedy was born October 9 in the year of 1854.
• James William Kennedy was born October 12 in the year of 1857.
• John James Kennedy was born July 12 in the year of 1859.
• Victoria Ann Kennedy was born November 10 in the year of 1861.
• David ? Q.? Kennedy was born December 13 in the year of 1862. (note: This is David O. MBMc.)
• Jimmie Pearl Kennedy was born July 25 in the year of 1886.
• Nancy E. Hunt was born March 8, 1872.

MARRIAGES

• Weakley Gordon Kennedy and Sarah Anne Stockard was married in the year of July 8, 1852.
• James N. Pugh and Sarah Anne Kennedy was married July 18 in the year of 1872.
• Wesley Scribner and Sarah Ann Pugh was married June 2 in the year of 1874.
• Caleb S. Williams and Sarah Anne Scribner was married may 2nd in the year of 1885.
• William Kennedy and ____torn___King was ____torn___Sept. 22 in the year of 1885.

 REST IN PEACE: DEATHS

• Weakley Gorden Kennedy the father of these children departed this life March 1, in the year of 1863 as a prisoner of the Confederate Army in Saint Louis, Mo.
• Johnnie James Kennedy departed this life Sept. 1? in the year of 1869.
• Mary Ellen Kennedy the wife James William Kennedy departed this life Nov. 17 in the year 1886.
• James N. Pugh departed this life Oct. 17, 1872.
• Victoria Ann Pollock departed this life Dec 31, 1892.
• O.J. Kennedy departed in the year 1876, Sept. 13th.
• Sarah Ann Williams died 10 Sept. 1917.

“Written by James William Kennedy.”

Ref: “They Passed This Way”; Maurise Lightfoot, 1976; pg. 33.

Transcribed by Mary Bob McClain Richardson; great grand daughter of James William Kennedy and Nancy Elizabeth Hunt Kennedy.