Thanks to Carol Morrison, I recently got 3 tif files showing the WPA Historical Inventory record (from microfilm at the Library of Virginia) of the Cleaton Bible, which I've transcribed below. What great resources we all have access to today, thanks to the Virginia WPA Historical Inventory Project that was sponsored by the Virginia Conservation Commission under the direction of its Division of History, back in the 1930s. Thomas Cleaton (born 1836) was the first owner of the Bible which was copyrighted 40 yrs later. I don't know for sure whether his mother, obviously listed many years after her birth, may have been the sister-in-law of my James Edward Poythress, or not. "Nannie" versus "Nellie." You may recall that James Edward Poythress' wife, Catherine Preston, had a sister who was listed on my family's copy of the Poythress-Preston Bible record as "Nelly Preston" (born 17 Sep 1798 in Brunswick Co, VA) and with married name of "Nellie Cleaton" below her birth entry. In the marriage section the Bible shows: "Nelly Preston married John Cleaton Oct., 1822" Copies of all three pages of the original of our family's Poythress-Preston Bible record (and of my 1995 transcription of it) are at The Library of Virginia, and are accessible online as Accession #34866. If any of our List members (Lyn? Julie?) have further info on the Cleaton families mentioned in these records, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Barbara Following is the transcription by Barbara Poythress Neal (Bpn) of the Family Bible of William Jackson Cleaton, done on 8 March 2006 from tif files of the microfilm copies of the 3 pages of the WPA record. All pages of the original WPA record were typed with two handprinted additions on coversheet. Notations in square brackets are by Bpn: = = = [page 1 of 3: coversheet] Works Progress Administration of Virginia Historical Inventory County: Dinwiddie Class - [handprinted] Bibles [lined out is the typed entry "Family Bible"] [handprinted:] Cleaton Family Bible of William Jackson Cleaton [stamped:] This write-up is a part of the Virginia W. P. A. Historical Inventory Project sponsored by the Virginia Conservation Commission under the direction of its Division of History. Credit to both the Commission and W. P. A. is requested for publication, in whole or in part. Unless otherwise stated, this information has not been checked for accuracy by the sponsor. Research made by: Mamie Fraser Dinwiddie, Virginia Route #2. April 21, 1937. = = = [page 2 of 3: first page of WPA report] [typed page number:] 1. 1. Subject: Family Bible of William Jackson Cleaton. 2. Location: At the home of William Jackson Cleaton, .5 mile east of Dinwiddie, Virginia, on Route #679, thence two hundred yards south on a private road. 3. Date: 1836, earliest inscription date. 4. Owners: [1st] Thomas Cleaton from 1879 to 1905. [Bpn note: None of the W.P.A. record entries divulge why "1879" was his beginning date of ownership; the last-listed birthdate for his children is 1875, and the copyright date is 1876] [2nd] William Jackson Cleaton from 1905 to the present time. [Bpn note: Thus he was owner to at least April 21, 1937, when the W. P. A. record was made] 5. Description: Bound in brown leather, approximate size ten by twelve inches, Standard Edition of the Holy Bible containing the Old and the New Testaments and the Apocryphal writings translated from Hebrew and Greek, and carefully compared with the former translations. Published by Bradley Garretson & Company, 66 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Copyright date 1876. This Bible has been well preserved and is in good condition. 6. Historical Significance: Thomas Cleaton, son of John & Nannie Susan Preston Cleaton, was born August 7, 1836. Louisa R. Chambliss, wife of Thomas Cleaton, was born May 5, 1838. The first birth was given [sic] to a son, James Buford, May 11, 1865. Etta Lee Cleaton, daughter of Thomas Cleaton & Louisa R. Chambliss, his wife, was born July 6, 1866. Nellie Susan Cleaton, daughter of Thomas Cleaton & Louisa R. Chambliss, his wife, was born February 31 [sic], 1868. Addie Lavina Cleaton, daughter of Thomas Cleaton & Louisa R. Chambliss, his wife, was born October 24, 1869. William Jackson Cleaton, son of Thomas Cleaton & Louisa R. Chambliss, his wife, was born May 11, 1871. Thomas Robert Cleaton, son of Thomas Cleaton & Louisa R. Chambliss, his wife, was born March 15, 1875. = = = [page 3 of 3: second page of WPA report] [typed page number:] 2. 7. Art: [blank space] 8. Sources of information: Family Bible of William Jackson Cleaton.