TRANSCRIPTION of MORTON – GILBERT BIBLE

Entries Dated from 1806 to 1914
Bible of William C. Morton (1829-1911) and Sarah M. (Gilbert) Morton (1834-1901) of Lincoln Co., TN. 

Transcriber: Patricia A. West, St. Louis, Missouri; email: wiz [at] websitewiz [dot] com; http:// www.websitewiz.com.  Current location: Bible in possession of Christina Lee West Ramey, Ozark, Missouri, niece of the transcriber.

Provenance: The Bible was given to Alice Eugenia (Kirkland) West by her mother, Gertie B.
(Morton) Kirkland, b 1892, d/o Alice Eugenia (Gilbert) Morton, b 1867, and Thomas Roberts
Morton, b 1865. Alice West, b 1920, gave the Bible to her son, Lucian W. West, Jr., and he
passed it on to his daughter, Christina West Branstetter.

Transcribed from the original Bible register.

Surnames in this Bible record:
Morton
Gilbert
Bledsoe
Sorrells
Crane
Kirkland
Davenport
Reese
Roberts

I. Verbatim Bible Transcription
[ ] Transcriber’s comments

Births

Wm Morton was born May 27th 1829
Sarah M. Gilbert was born April 21st 1834
[The following are the seven children of William C. and Sarah Morton:]
John C. Morton was born May 13th 1851
Buenavista Morton was born Sep. 17th 1854
Talitha Cami Morton was born Dec 13 1857
Barachias Morton was born Jan 21st 1859
Zacharias Morton was born May 15 1861
Thomas R.[oberts] Morton was born Dec 15th 1865
Mary Ann Morton was born Feb 23 1869 [last of chn. of Wm & Sarah]
Velva T. Morton was born March 6, 1902 [d/o T.R. Morton]
Zacharias Morton & Martha Mortons first son William C.
Morton March 10th 1884

Thomas R. Morton. and. A. E. Mortons first daughter Arty Lera was born September the 20th
1888 [A.E. Morton was Alice Eugenia (Gilbert) Morton]
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Marriages

Zacharias Morton and Martha Bledsoe were married Dec 7th 1882
T.R. Morton and A.E. Gilbert was married nov 20th 1887
B.C. Morton & Mary Sorrells was maried Oct 7th 1890
S.A. Crane & B.V. Morton was maried Dec 26th 1889
E.E. Reece and Mary Crane was maried july th 22 1906
B.D. Morton [Bessie D.] was born Nov. 6th 1903 [g/c of Wm & Sarah]
Gertie B. Morton & Patrick G. Kirkland were married April 7, 1919
Marchie M. Morton & James Howell Davenport were married November 16, 1919
[Gertie and Marchie Morton are d/o Thomas Roberts Morton]
Memoranda
Susanah Morton (was born) [parentheses in original] June 23d 1807. [nee Roberts;
mother of Wm C. Morton and wife of John Morton]
Rachel Gilbert March 7th 1812 [mother of Sarah M. Gilbert Morton and wife of John C.
Gilbert; sister to Susannah Roberts Morton]
Rachel Gilbert Died Aug the 1 1898
Artamacy Robberts [misspelled in original] was born Oct. 18th 1814
Artamacy Roberts died april the 3th 1882
John Morton Was born Oct 9th 1806 [father of Wm C. Morton]
John Morton died May 23th 1879
Susanah Morton died Sep 30th 1891 [nee Roberts; mother of Wm C. Morton]
[The six following are grandchildren of Wm C. & Sarah Morton:]
Mary Crane was born Nov 16 1890 [d/o Buenavista Morton Crane]
Cordie L. Crane was born Oct 16 1891 [d/o Buenavista Morton Crane]
Eddie Crane was borne Mar 4 1893 [d/o Buenavista Morton Crane]
Arty Lera Morton was born Sept. 20 1888 [d/o T.R. Morton]
Marchie M. Morton was born March 13 1890 [d/o T.R. Morton]
Gertie B. Morton was born Jan 9, 1892 [d/o T.R. Morton]

Deaths

T.R. Morton died March the 13th 1907 [in Huntsville, AL]
Z.S. Morton died March the 16th 1907 [in Tennessee]
John C. Morton died Feb 19th 1855 [s/o Wm. C. & Sarah Morton]:
B.V. Crane died Jan 11th 1909 [d/o Wm. C. & Sarah Morton]:
Talitha Cami Morton died Jan 26th 1858 [d/o Wm. C. & Sarah Morton]
Edgar Crane died Oct. 4, 1893
Mary Reese died Feb. 4th 1910
Velva T. Morton died Feb. 10, 1911 [d/o T.R. Morton]
William Morton died July 24, 1911 [husband of Sarah M. Gilbert Morton]
M.R. Morton died June 19th 1898
William C. Morton died July 30th 1884
Sarah M. Morton died May 5, 1901 [wife of William C. Morton]
John Morton died March 26 1914
—End of Bible Transcription—

About the Morton – Gilbert Family
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This is the family Bible of William C. Morton and Sarah M. Gilbert who were married on
July 18, 1850, at the home of her parents, John C. Gilbert Sr. and Rachael (Roberts)
Gilbert in Lincoln Co., Tennessee. William and Sarah (Gilbert) Morton were first cousins.
William C. Morton was the s/o John Morton and Susannah (Roberts) Morton. Their mothers were sisters.

Rachel (Roberts) Gilbert and Susannah (Roberts) Morton were the d/o John and Sarah (Smith)
Roberts. A third Roberts daughter, Lucretia, married D.A. Gilbert, brother of John C. Gilbert.
These families lived near the Lincoln Co./Bedford Co. line around Chestnut Ridge or Petersburg
and were living in Middle Tennessee before 1820. They emigrated from North and South
Carolina. Numerous descendants still live in the Nashville and Bedford/Lincoln Co., Tennessee
area.

To wit:
John Roberts – Sarah Smith Robert had three daughters:
1. Susannah Roberts, b 1807, married John C. Morton and had a son, William C. Morton
2. Rachel Roberts, b 1812, married John C. Gilbert, and had a daughter, Sarah (Gilbert) Morton
3. Lucretia Roberts, b 1820, married D.A. Gilbert, brother of John C. Gilbert
I descend from all three of the daughters.

Sources

1. Family Bible of John Roberts and Sarah (Smith) Roberts, dated 1792 to 1898.
2. Birth, death, marriage records, deeds, newspaper clippings, census records, cemetery
and probate records, primarily from Lincoln Co. and Bedford Co., TN and Lawrence Co.
and Morgan Co., Alabama. Additional obituaries found in family scrapbook of Patrick G.
Kirkland, husband of Gertie B. Morton (d/o Thomas R. Morton and Alice Eugenia Gilbert)