{"id":345,"date":"2013-05-13T03:22:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T03:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/?p=345"},"modified":"2013-05-12T03:22:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T03:22:55","slug":"morford-family-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/morford-family-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Morford Family Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morford Family Bible Record [1755-1955] [Tennessee Branch]<\/p>\n<p>Hartford: G. Andrus and Son, 1845<\/p>\n<p>Original owner: Josiah Furman Morford Sr., who came to Tennessee in 1820. At his death, the Bible passed into the possession of his eldest son Josiah F. Morford Jr. and his wife, Ann Eliza Lusk; at the death of Josiah F. Morford Jr. it passed to his eldest son John Josiah Morford and his wife Sarah [Sallie] Haden. Their adopted daughter Lucy Cloud Morford Evens [Mrs. Baily Evens, Shelbyville, Tenn.] upon their death gave the Bible to the Magness Memorial Library, McMinnville, Tennessee, where it is kept in the Memorial Room.<\/p>\n<p>Present owner: Edgar Magness Memorial Library, McMinnville, Tennessee<\/p>\n<p><b>Marriages:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Josiah F. Morford and Jane E. Taylor were married Sept. 7, 1826<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Chatham Coffee and Mary E. Morford were married July 11, 1850<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">J. F. Morford Jr. and Ann Lusk married Jan. 4, 1854<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Charles R. Morford and Florence M. Spurlock married Jan. 30, 1867<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">James C. Biles and Jennie Morford married June 27, 1867<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">David B. Carson and Florence J. Morford married June 5, 1883<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Baily Peyton Evens and Lucy Haden Cloud married July 2, 1919 in McMinnville, Tenn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">William V. Whitson and Rebecca R. Morford married Oct. 14, 1875<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Radford M. Reems and Jessie Furman Coffee married July 3, 1889<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">John Josiah Morford and Sara R. Haden married Oct. 31, 1893<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Charles Milton Morford and Clara May Richmond married Jan. 31, 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Preston R. Cloud and Lucy M. Haden married May 21, 1885 at La Place, Ala. [Lucy Cloud&#8217;s mother and father]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Captain Josiah Furman Morford and Helen Smith married Aug. 19, 1922 in Long Branch, N.J.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Births<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Zebulon Morford born March 29, 1759<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Mary Denton born Dec. 5, 1755<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Susan Morford born July 24, 1786<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Mary Morford born May 12, 1788<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Samuel D. Morford born Sept. 20, 1790<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Charles Morford born July 29, 1793<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Harriet Morford born April 28, 1796<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Josiah F. Morford born April 23, 1799<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Robert Campbell Morford born July 14, 1801<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Evelina Belmont Morford born January 30, 1804<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Josiah Furman Morford born Oct. 13, 1894<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Richmond Crason Morford born April 14, 1900 in McMinnville, Tenn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Florence McGraw Morford born Dec. 12, 1903 in McMinnville, Tenn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Josiah F. Morford born April 23, 1799 at Princeton, N. J.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Jane B. Taylor born Feb. 23, 1808 in Sumner Co., Tenn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Josiah Furman Morford born Aug. 9, 1829<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714285714;\">Mary Evalina Morford born Sept. 22, 1831 on Stones River, Warren Co., Tennessee<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morford Family Bible Record [1755-1955] [Tennessee Branch] Hartford: G. Andrus and Son, 1845 Original owner: Josiah Furman Morford Sr., who came to Tennessee in 1820. At his death, the Bible passed into the possession of his eldest son Josiah F. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/morford-family-bible\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[8,181,186,180,184,13,183,182,15,91,34,185],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-bible-records","tag-biles","tag-cloud","tag-coffee","tag-crason","tag-evens","tag-morford","tag-reems","tag-richmond","tag-smith","tag-spurlock","tag-taylor","tag-whitson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}