John Endsley Family Bible
contributed by Dick Wood in September, 2004, with accompanying publication details at end of this page
Published by Evert Duyckinck, John Tiebout, G. & R. Waite, and Webster & Skinners of Albany, New York, 1813. George Long, Printer.
The Bible of John Endsley, bought of Major John Brown, August 31, 1816 was presented to B. Endsley by John F. Endsley in 1923.
Now (date not indicated) in the possession of James W. Endsley, 215 5th Avenue, North, Lewisburg, TN.
Marriages:
JOHN ENDSLEY and MARY BLAIR, was maried March the 2nd day A. D. 1797.
DAMARIS ENDSLEY and ALFRED ANDERSON was maried on the 21st day of November A. D. 1822.
CYNTHIA ENDSLEY and WILLIS BURGESS was maried on the 7th day of November 1832.
JOHN M. ENDSLEY and CHRISTIANA BURGESS was maried on the 19th day of Dec. 1833.
BEDFORD ENDSLEY and MARTHA L. (LEEPER) DYSART was maried on 20th day of Jan. 1842.
ISAAC N. ENDSLEY and SALLIE M. LADD was maried on the 26th day of Oct. 1852.
JOHN F. (FRANCIS) ENDSLEY and SALLIE ADNEY COFFEY was married March 7, 1867.
Births:
JOHN ENDSLEY son of James Endsley and Jane his wife was born the 13th day of August A. D. 1769.
MARY ENDSLEY, daughter of James Blair and Sarah his wife, consort of John Endsley was born August 17th A. D. 1775.
DAMARIS ENDSLEY, daughter of John Endsley and Mary his wife was born March the 5th A. D. 1798.
JAMES BLAIR ENDSLEY, son of John Endsley and Mary his wife was born June the 1st A. D. 1800.
JOHN MILTON ENDSLEY, son of John Endsley and Mary his wife was born March the 19th A. D. 1803.
CYNTHIA ENDSLEY, daughter of John Endsley and Mary his wife was born February the 10th A. D. 1806.
ISAAC NEWTON ENDSLEY, son of John Endsley and Mary his wife was born December the 2nd A. D. 1808.
SIDNEY ENDSLEY, son of John Endsley and Mary his wife was born the 26th of January A. D. 1812.
BEDFORD ENDSLEY, son of John Endsley and Mary his wife was born on the 3rd day of January A. D. 1815.
JAMES L. BURGESS, son of Willis Burgess and Cynthia Burgess was born September 18th, 1833.
JOHN FRANCIS ENDSLEY, son of Bedford Endsley and Martha his wife was born on the 23rd day of September, 1847.
B. ENDSLEY, son of John F. Endsley and Sallie A. Endsley, his wife was born May 26, 1884.
JAMES W. ENDSLEY, son of B. Endsley and Frances E. his wife was born March 17, 1913.
SARAH ADNY COFFEY born July 24, 1846.
Deaths:
JAMES BLAIR ENDSLEY, son of John Endsley and Mary his wife departed this life on the 6th day of September A. D. 1812.
SIDNEY ENDSLEY departed this life on the 27th day of August A. D. 1815.
JOHN ENDSLEY departed this life on the 21st day of September A. D. 1828.
DAMARIS ENDSLEY departed this life on March 21st 1838.
MARY ENDSLEY, wife of John Endsley, departed this life on the 13th of October, 1854 at half past twelve o’clock in the evening.
CYNTHIA BURGESS, wife of Willis Burgess and daughter of John Endsley and Mary his wife departed this life on the 1st day of February 1877.
ISAAC NEWTON ENDSLEY, son of John Endsley and Mary his wife departed this life the 30th of January 1882, at eleven o’clock at night.
JOHN MILTON ENDSLEY, son of John Endsley and Mary his wife departed this life December 5th 1884 at 3 o’clock in the morning.
BEDFORD ENDSLEY, son of John Endsley and Mary his wife departed this life the 3rd of June 1895, 15 mins before 1 o’clock in the morning.
MARTHA L. (Leeper) ENDSLEY, wife of Bedford Endsley departed this life Feb 8th 1901.
SALLIE A. ENDSLEY, wife of John F. Endsley departed this life Oct 21, 1907.
JOHN F. ENDSLEY, son of Bedford & Martha L. his wife departed this life Sep 23rd, 1923.
This transcription of the John Endsley Bible Family Record it taken from:
MARSHALL COUNTY TENNESSEE BIBLE RECORDS by Carolyn McAdams. Edited by Helen Crawford Marsh. Published by Marshall County Historical Society, Lewisburg, Tennessee. 1981. [No Copyright noted].
A transcription is also on page 60, JOHN BLAIR OF GUILFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS compiled by Lucy Echels Blair. Copyright ©1979 by Bean and Lucy (Echels) Blair * 708 North 7th Street Lamesa, Texas 79331.
The earliest transcription of the John Endsley Bible Family Record that I have seen is on pages 19 & 20 of the August 1970 issue of MARSHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, Vol. I, No. 1.
An excerpt of the John Endsley Family Bible Record also appeared in the MARSHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, Vol VIII, No. III, Fall 1977, page 86. Unfortunately that report had a fundamental error which, I believe, is the origin of the many genealogies incorrectly reporting John Endsley [husband of Mary Blair] to have been “John Endsley, Jr., son of John Endsley, Sr.”
Mrs. Lula Cummings Endsley (Mrs. John Roy Endsley) provided most of the Endsley/Cummings family information for the “JOHN BLAIR book” compiled by Lucy Blair. Mrs. Lula Endsley died in 1995. Her children very graciously provided me with photocopies of her unpublished papers. I noticed that she had that error in her notes but had crossed through the error and written in the correct information. The version of the John Endsley Family Bible Record she provided for inclusion in the “JOHN BLAIR book” is correct.