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.

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

HARRAL  Family Bible
 

'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

HARRAL Family Bible
 
 

'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 added on a separate paper 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
 

HARRAL --ELAM Family Bible
 

Baptism
      Births -- written in, continued by the ELAM'S
This was Sarah Ella RAY ELAM'S Bible

H. O. [Henry Oscar]Elam born May 1st 1859

Sarah Ella Ray Elam born Oct 2nd 1861

John B. Elam born Feb 6th 1881-1883

 Bible has question mark ? [Genevine M. b. Jun 13,1882-Sep 1, 1883 Meridian Cem]

 Bible has question mark ?  [Warren Otis b. May 21, 1883 - Sep 27, 1883 Meridan Cem]

Vera Elam born Oct. 31st 1884

Robney Ray Elam born Dec 20th 1886 [later changed name to Ray R.]

Velma Anne Elam born Sept. 28th 1889

Ruth Lee Elam born April 18th 1892

Roy Oscar Elam born April 3rd 1895

Mabel Bonnell Elam born Feb 5th 1898

Robert Ethelbert Elam born Aug 19 1900

Cyrena Martha Elam born June 19th 1902