I'm forwarding the following message for Steve Watson <casapapa@sigecom.net> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jones Stokes / Mary Ann Stokes Bible Transcription with List of Keelings Date:�� Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:34:08 -0700 From:�� "Steve Watson" <casapapa@sigecom.net> Organization:��� SIGECOM E-Mail for CasaPapa To:�� <KYTODD-L@rootsweb.com> What follows are transcription of all notes found in a Stokes family Bible.� The notes represent family records of Jones Stokes, his wife Sarah Pinkston, and their descendants, all of Todd County, KY. � Publisher and Authentication Information New Testament Published in New York by the American Bible Society in 1857 � The following list of Keelings appears on a blank page preceding the inscription page.� There are no dates or other information with this list. William Keeling William F. Keeling Thomas L. Keeling Thos E. Keeling William W. Keeling James L. Keling James Keeling John Keeling Peter Jefferson Keeling Peter Keeling William Keeling John Keeling Joel Keeling William Keeling Joel Keeling � The Bible is inscribed as follows on another blank page, which is the page that immediately follows the list of Keelings above, and immediately precedes the Bible's copyright page. Elkton Todd County Ky United States April the 12th 1864 Mary A. Stokes S. P. Hightower � Page 447 is the last page of the Book of Revelations in this old Bible, and page 448 is a blank page preceding the Book of Psalms.� Very old handwritten notes using a number of different pens and pencils are written on these pages, and are transcribed below: � The very old notes on page 447 of the Bible read as follows: Jones Stokes was born February the 11th Sarah Stokes was born May the 11 1822 William A. Stokes was born June the 19 1842 Mary A. Stokes was borned November the 4 184?� (RSW Note:� The last number is illegible, but it looks like it might be a 3, 6, or 8.) � The very old notes on page 448 of the Bible read as follows: Sarah E. Stokes� was� born September the 23 1846 (RSW Note:� The E. is very fancy and could be interpreted as a G. or a Y.) John T. Stokes was born January the 30 1848 Jones Stokes died July the 12 1862 in the evening at six oclock. Sarah E. Dosset died April the 27 1871 Sarah E. Stokes was borned September the 23 1846 John T. Stokes died Nov the 29 1893 � Near the end of the Bible, on a blank page after the end of the Book of Psalms (which ends on page 112), the following notation is barely legible: Sarah E. Stokes Mary A. Stokes William Keeling (RSW NOTE: there is an illegible word here) Sally � What follows is a transcription of a loose sheet of tablet paper that was found in the above Bible. � Jones Stokes Borned Feb 19-1822 Died June 12-1862 Sarah Pinkston Stokes May 11-1822 Died Jan. 5-1910 W.A. Stokes Borned June 19-1842 M.A. Harris Stokes Borned Nov. 4 -18?? Died Aug 15-1933 S.E. Stokes Dossett Borned Sept 2 1846 Died April 27 1871 John T. Stokes Borned Jan. 30-184? Died Nov. 29-1893 � RSW NOTE: I received the above Bible without its cover and in generally poor condition from Kelley Chapman of Crofton, KY in late March, 2002. Kelley indicated in an accompanying letter that she has possessed the Bible for over thirty years.� She stated that she found the Bible in poor condition when an estate was being cleaned out, and the Bible was going to be thrown away.� She thought that it was wrong to throw away the Bible, so she removed it from the trash and kept it with her own family Bible.� She forwarded it to me after finding some of the names in the Bible on my Internet web site. � Double thanks to Kelley: first for saving the original Bible, and second for passing it on. � Robert Stephen Watson 3 April 2002