The Family Bible of GEORGE and SUSANNAH RANGE
Washington County, Tennessee
This Certifies that The Rite of Holy Matrimony was Celebrated Between: G.H. Range of Washington Co. Tenn and Susannah Klepper of Washington Co. Tenn on the
18th of Dec. 1845 at Jacob Klepper’s by Josiah Yager Jost.
Witness: John B. Klepper and M.A. Biddle
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BIRTHS
G H Range was born May 9th 1819
S Klepper was born March 3rd 1826
E C Range was born Oct 29 1846
Issac Range was born Feb 23rd 1849
John A Range was born May 23 1851
S L Range was born Apr 22d 1850
Julie Range was born Aug 16th 1852
M J Range was born Oct 24th 1853
M E Range was born Dec 3rd 1854
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MEMORANDA (Births Cont.)
Jacob H Range was born Dec 11th 1856
James M Range was born Feb 18th 1858
Sarah A Range was born May 11th 1859
Thomas W. Range was born Sept 27th 1860
Joseph K Range was born Dec 11th 1861
Eliza A Range was born Apr 1st 1865
George W Range was born Oct 15th 1866
Sue R Range was born Feb 28 1872
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MARRIAGES
E Pitts and E C Range was married Jan 13th 1872
John A Range and Ruth A Range was married Jan 19 1882
Issac Range and C E Posy was married May 4th 1882
T W Range and Jennie E Sherfy was married Sep 27th 1883
Eugene Pitts and Etta Curlis was married May 14, 1893
W M Akers and Lena May Pitts was married Nov 25, 1901
Laurence Edward Stout and Lania Effie Pitts was married Oct 5, 1904
George Raymond Pitts and Stella Minerva Weeks was married Oct 7, 1914
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DEATHS
An infant son Died Apr 16th 1848
S L Range Departed this life Nov 19th 1852
July (Julia) Range Departed this life July 29 1853
J M Range June 23rd 1858
M E Range departed this life Jan 23rd 1882
Laura Ettie Pitts Died Jan 7, 1888
Dimmond Pitts died Jan 31st 1895
Submitted by: Ronald L. Akers, 21061 Vandenberg Ave., Riverside, CA 92518-2889
Bible is in the possession of the decendants of William M. Johnson of Cathedral City, CA. The Bible came to him by (a) Bible passed to the Range’s eldest daughter, Elizabeth Range who married E.C. Pitts in Washington Co., TN; (b) the Bible then passed to Pitts’ daughter Lena May who married William M. Akers in Whitman Co., WA; (c) the Bible then passed to the Akers’ daughter Wilma May who married Frank J. Johnson in Seattle, WA; (d) the Bible was passed to the Johnson’s son, William M. Johnson. Ronald L. Akers is the grandson of M.J. (Mary Jane) Range.