Virginia family Bible records [manuscript], 1865-1948.

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Virginia family Bible records [manuscript], 1865-1948.

Four Bates and related Small/Hackley/Pace Family Bibles (two from American Bible Society, 1879 and two unknown) trace the descendants of Thomas Alfred and Emma Hackley Bates including grandson Sydney French Small. Includes loose and pasted clippings, a handwritten recipe for a salve, a Cleveland family genealogy, ribbon bookmarks, religious tracts, a handwritten essay on "systematic giving" and a photograph, 1941, possibly of Small. Three Motley/Jones family Bibles (American Bible Society, 1862, 1896 and Edinburg by Alexander Kincaid, 1764) trace descendants of John Motley, Jr. and Mary Coke Mothley, including their grandson William A. Jones. Also the Bible of the descendants of Joseph Jones and his wives Nancy Call Jones and Jane Atkinson Jones. Includes loose clippings, chiefly Coke family obituaries together with a ribbon bookmark. With these is a detached Bible cover on which is pasted an engraving of the elder Margaret Davidson writing her poem "Lenore" together with a loose page signed by Hannah Rogers Trowbridge.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7936969

University of Virginia. Library

Related Entities

There are 13 Entities related to this resource.

Bates, Thomas Alfred, 1839-1929.

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Pace family.

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Motley family.

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Cleveland family.

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Jones, William Atkinson, 1849-1918

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William A. Jones resided in Richmond County, Va. and served in the U.S. Congress from 1891 until his death in 1918. From the description of Election papers, 1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122609134 ...

Bates family.

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Davidson, Margaret Miller, 1787-1844

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Hackley family.

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Small family.

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Bates, Emma Hackley.

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Small, Sydney French, 1892-

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Coke family.

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Motley, Mary Coke, circa 1826-1898,

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