This subject brings to mind the fact that many persons do not even know that in their public libraries and courthouses that they have family Bibles that people have donated -- sometimes they are hard to locate exactly where they have them kept and so often people will tell you that they don't have any -- but if you are persistent you can usually locate them -- usually in cabinets, safes, file drawers, boxes, attics, and even the basement. Search around and it may amaze you what Bibles there are in your county. As for the Jones -- I know that many of the Jones' were over by Steubenville and along the east side of Ohio on the Ohio River and they were also Welsh -- so it is possible that some of the ones in your Bible stopped along that area in their migration to Indiana. As for me I am searching for a Jones family Bible that was mentioned in a rev war pension application -- said that Thomas Bolin knew his birthdate 1776 because he saw it in his "Uncle John Jones' Bible" -- we have been trying to find this Bible or even his Uncle John Jones for some time -- we only know that he was born in Caswell/Orange Co, NC and migrated to Perry Co, IN and we believe he descended from the VA Bolin/Bolen/Bolling family and so this John Jones could have lived in VA, NC, IN -- or for that matter anywhere in USA. Sure wish your find was the Bible we have all been hunting for for over 35 years.<just dreamin' and wishin' and hopin'> Judy M. >My brother has an old file cabinet of my grandfathers down in his basement. He >told me the Paulus family bible was in it and I went straight to his house to >look at it....it wasnt the Paulus family it was Jones. >I'm still trying to figure out why we have that bible, only have a couple >Jones's in the family so I need to check deeper and get all the names from >it...if it should happen to not be from my family I intend to try to locate >the descendents too. Most of it is in Welsh (Jones was common there) and there >are Welsh descendents in my family so hopefully I'll figure it out someday. > >Dont bother replying with your Jones family names...I dont have any of the >names until I find time to go write them down. But when I do I'll post them >here and hopefully someone will recognize one. > >P.S. The bible was in the basement at Eugene and Lela Huish's (both deceased) >home in East Chicago Indiana until 1987 when my brother took the cabinet out, >he just told me about it a month ago. If it was up to him (my brother) he'd >throw it in the trash and someones priceless late 1800's bible would be gone. >Hopefully I can keep that from happening! > >Kathy Huish >Lake County GenWeb >http://users.rootsweb.com/~inlake > > >