NOTE: The following names and dates are written on pieces of paper from a family Bible. The Bible itself went to another side of the family, but my father was given the pages on which were recorded names and dates of births, deaths, marriages. The ink spread in some places, so parts of it are difficult to read. I will type everything out that is written, but I will put parentheses around the dates I cannot read clearly and around comments.

Benjamin S. Kirk son of William Kirk and Frances Kirk was born on the (9) of September 1807
Benjamin S. Kirk was married on the 9 of November, 183(7--date unclear but it is 1837) to Miss Virinda E. Jones
Virinda E. Kirk daughter of Edmund Jones and Mary Jones was born the 8 of Aprile, (1807)
Gabriel Anderson Kirk son of Benjamin and Virinda E. Kirk was born September 11, 1808
Mary Frances Kirk daughter of Benjamin S. Kirk and Virinda E. Kirk was born January 24th, 184?
William Thomas Kirk son of Benjamin Kirk and Virinda E. Kirk was born May 13th, 18??
James Polk Kirk son of Benjamin Kirk and Virinda E. Kirk was born July 4th, 1845
Lorror Ann Kirk daughter of Benjamin Kirk and Virinda E. Kirk was born March 2, 1848
Benjamin F. Kirk son of Benjamin Kirk and Virinda Kirk was born May 25th, 1853
Henry Lucas Kirk and George Edmund Kirk sons of Benjamin Kirk and Virinda E. Kirk was born October 13, 1850
Richard Jones Kirk son of Benjamin Kirk and Virinda Kirk was born december 2, 1855

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Deaths
Benjamin Kirk departed this life the 2 day of October the year 1855
Henry L. Kirk departed this life the 25 of July the year 1857
George E. Kirk departed this life the 29 of July the year 1857
Benjamin F. Kirk died Aug the 7 the 1872
V. E. Kirk departed this life Feb th10 1883
L. A. Duggar departed this lif March th16 1892
Richard Jones Kirk May 26 1898
G. A. Kirk departed this life Feb the 14 1894
William Thomas Kirk departed this life (left blank)
Mary Elizebeth Laurence departed this life (left blank)

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Robert Cunningham died November 25th, 1894
Mary Adaline Cunningham, daughter of Robert and Mary W. Cunningham, died 1895

NOTE: The marriages, births, and deaths are recorded on pages of the Old and New Testament, Philadelphia: published and sold by Kimber and Sharpless, at their book-store No 8 South 4th-Street. The Cunningham deaths are written on the back of a flyer published March 1st, 1894. It says, "A Mass Meeting Called...." This was a notice called for a vote for county offices on May 19.

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