The John & Elizabeth HARRAL Family Bible
Later the H. Oscar ELAM Family Bible
Transcribed by MaryCarol from xerox copies of Harral Family Bible pages loaned to me by Cousin Wylodean BRUFF ROGERS. Bible in possession of Dot ELAM in Texas, dau of Robert E. and Winnie PATTERSON ELAM. Scans of original bible pages courtesy of Fay ELAM GARRETT.
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Then see the transcribed pages below them.
“Bring up your children in the admonition of the Lord“
BIRTHS
John Harral was born in the year of our Lord October 30th of 1794
Elizabeth D. [GILLIAM] Harral was born April 22nd of 1798
Emily Harral was born September 16, 1815
Jessee Harral was born January 18th (scratched out 22nd written in), 1818
Susanah Harral was born July 22nd, 1820
Matilda Harral was born May 2, 1822
Sarah Ann Harral was born December 12th, 1824
Carson R.[Reed] Harral was born April 9th, 1827
Sirrena [Cyrena] Caroline Harral was born June 4, 1829
Cynthia Jane Harral was born November 4th, 1832
Elizabeth Harral was born February 17, 1835
Malinda Harral was born March 27th, 1837
James Benton Harral was born July 20th, 1839
Martha A. E. Harral was born November 20th, 1844
Emma C. Harral was born April 2, 1862
John W. Harral was born June 19th, 1865
Marry Cathern Harral wa born October 12th, 1870
Leta B. Harral was born October the 28th, 1871
Rufus P. Harral was born December the 24th, 1873
Queen Isabella was born December looks like 17th, 1877
J. N. Ray was born January 24th, 1851
Byrdie Ray born Dec 21st 1884
‘Marriage is honorable in all’
MARRIAGES
John Harral & Elizabeth D. Gillium was married December 28th, 1813
D. H. Reddick and Emily Harral was married February 26th, 1833
William Dunlap and Matilda Harral was married the 19th day of July 1840
Jesse Harral & Mahala H. Hendrix was married Novem the 10th 1842
Bennet Ray & Cyrena Harral was married January the 25th 1845
Carson R. Harral & Margaret Jane Hargis was married October the 15th 1851
J. A. J. Dudley & Elizabeth Harral was married October the 6th 1852
J. B. Harral and M. C. Johnson was married November the 25th 1860
R. C. Drewry and M. M. Harral was married Jan the 10th 1861
J. B. Harral and Martha A. E. Drewry was married November the 17 (?) 1868
J. N. Ray and I. V. Cooper was married Nov the 20th 1879
‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord’
DEATHS
John Harral departed this life November the 1st day 1860
Cynthia Jane Harral departed this life September the 17th day 1860
Sally Anne Overton departed this life August the 30th day 1860
Susannah Harral departed this life June (17th)? 1821
Mary C. [JOHNSON] Harral departed this life July the 21st 1865 [First wife of James B. Harral]
Marry Cathern Harral departed this lfe October the 27th 1870 [Dau. of James Harral by Martha Ann E. Drewry]
B. [Bennett] Ray departed this life Nov the 10th 1878
Sarah Ella Elam died Oct. 24th 1940
H. O. [Oscar]Elam departed this life Sept. 4th 1957
Notes by Wylodean —
Emily Reddick died November 4, 1890
Mary Melinda Harral Drewry died July 27, 1921
Cyrena Ray died February 21, 1892
Mary Catherine Johnson Harral, first wife of James B. Harral
Note from Martha Smith 3/2002..
Jesse Harral b. January 22, 1818 Weakley Co. TN d. December 19, 1917 MO
