Read the following on the "Missing Links, Vol. 7, No. 41, 13 October 2002". What a Happy Ending to a very interesting story. Thanks Mickey! Regards, Marybeth Corrigall ========================== << SUCCESSFUL LINKS: FERGUSON Bible Goes to College By Mickey Cendrowski 74bug@nauticom.net http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/3027 On September 22, 2002 I rescued an old Bible from a flea market table in Butler County, Pennsylvania. The seller wanted $25 for it and while I knew that I was soon to be laid off from my job of 28 years, I found that I could not let this Bible remain on that flea market table. The printed date in the Bible was 1859, with the earliest marriage record being for R. G. FERGUSON and Emma M. HUBER, who were married January 28, 1868 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Once I got home with the Bible it took me less than 10 minutes to find this family living in Franklin County, Pennsylvania in the 1870 census. Two days after I purchased the Bible my notice about it appeared in Missing Links, Vol. 7, No. 38, 24 September 2002. I received about four inquiries, but found no family matches; however, one of the responses prompted me to do some additional searching for this family on the Internet. Would you believe, just four days after I purchased the Bible, I found a new home for it that was much more appropriate than a flea market table. As it turned out, R. G. FERGUSON was Robert Gracey FERGUSON, who was the president of Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania from 1884 to 1906. The FERGUSON bible was full of dates of family births, marriages, and deaths, with some of the events recorded having happened long before the Bible was published. The Bible also contained a paper giving the ancestry of the family. It was a gold mine and would have been wonderful for any connecting family member. It just so happens that Robert Gracey FERGUSON was famous, but I would have been happy just the same if he weren't and I still had gotten this Bible back into the hands of family. I have since been in contact with the college archivist and in a few weeks the Bible that I rescued will be in their hands. * * * * * >>