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This Bible has been in the possession of my family for a very long time. It belonged to my great-aunt Myrtle Foster Reid. She gave it to my mother and my mother passed it along to me. It was really this Bible that first got me interested in Genealogy. The Bible lists family records for William "Mill Creek Billy" Foster and his wife and children. It also lists records for Joseph Barnett, his wife, Lucy Wade and their children. There are also records for Micajah Barnett, son of Joseph and Lucy, his wife and their children. No one in my family knew who the Barnetts were. We had no knowledge of any connection with the Barnett family. So, I began a mission to find out who they were and why their records were in my Foster Family Bible. It wasn’t very difficult to find Barnett ancestors of Joseph Barnett. However, the mystery wasn’t solved, as they had no information linking our two families. The information about the Barnetts that is contained in the Bible was very exciting to the Barnett researchers, since this was the first source they had found for actual birth dates of some of the earlier Barnetts. Of course, they were also anxious to figure out why records for the two families are contained within the same Bible. As of yet, we haven’t been able to do this. If any of you have information that would help us solve this mystery, please get in touch with me . We really want to how these families intertwine. A little about the Bible: The bible is in very poor condition. It is actually falling apart and is coming unbound. Many of the pages are crumbling. The bible appears to me to have been rebound at some point in time. This rebinding appears to have been a "homemade" job. The pieces of cardboard that form the front and back covers have scribbling on them and are covered with thin pieces of leather sewn into place with heavy thread. The old and new testaments appear to have come from two different bibles. As indicated from the copies of the old and new testament fly leaf pages, these two bibles have different publishers and different publication dates. Since the flyleaf page for the new testament is loose, it is possible that the page is from an entirely different bible. However, the styles of print and language used in the old and in the new testaments are completely different. This would indicate that two separate bibles were bound together. Most of the Foster pages have come loose, but at least one is still attached to the Bible. Both of the Barnett pages are still attached. The only writing in the bible other than the family records recorded on the blank pages is the name "Malinda Foster" written on the top of one of the Genesis pages. |
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Wofford Bible Records Taken from: Of Whom I Came; Of Whence I Came-Wells-Wise, Rish-Wise and Otherwise (July, 1964). A Compilation of Genealogies of Families of: Bolling, Colquit, Gable, Norman, Rish, Robertson, Weatherbee, Wells, Wofford With Numerous Related and Connecting Families. In Several Volumes (Privately Mimeographed). This Volume (in Two Parts) contains Family of WOFFORD, with Partial Genealogy of Family of HOPPAUGH, and Data on Families of LAWSON, SANDERS, and WESTMORELAND. THIS VOLUME WILL BE CALLED "THE WOFFORD VOLUME". (excerpt) Following from an old Wofford Bible, owned by C.F. Wofford, of Forsyth Co., GA, and Birmingham, Ala.: (Abbreviations for "born", "died", and "married" are ours, as also are some punctuations.) George Wofford m. Polly Foster, April 18, 1816 William F. Wofford m. Miss F. R. Blanton, Dec. 22, 1870 Moses Wofford d. 10 Oct., 1844 Oney Wofford d. 13 March, 1855 Annie Wofford b. 10 Oct., 1844 Lee Wofford b. Dec. 11, ’74 May Wofford b. Nov. 10, ’77 (These all written as " ’74 10 Nov." Can’t tell whether dates are for 1700s or 1800s-perhaps for 1800s) George Wofford b. Oct. 16, 1793 Mary (Polly) Foster Wofford b. Sept. 7, 1794 John F. Wofford b. Feb. 14, 1817 Salley Wofford b. Dec. 29, 1819 Marianne Wofford b. May 19, 1826 Amanday Melvina Wofford b. Sept. 29, 1827 Elilhu Wofford b. April 25, 1829 Eliphaz Wofford (twin of Elihu Wofford) b. April 25, 1829 William Foster Wofford b. Nov. 13, 1834 Benjamin Wofford b. Sept. 10, 1833 Oney Wofford b. Jan. 10, 1835 On next page of Bible Amanda Wofford b. Sept. 28, 1827; d. Dec. 28, 1909 Mary Wofford b. Sept. 24, 1818; d. April 8, 1856 George Wofford b. Oct. 16, 1793; d. March 7, 1857 Benjamin Wofford b. Sept. 10, 1833 Mary F. Wofford b. Sept. 7, 1794; d. Feb. 4, 1879 William Foster Wofford b. Nov. 13, 1834 ; d. June 19, 1908 Mrs. W.F. Wofford b. Jan. 7, 1849; d. July 20, 1888 (Some repetitions on this page. Script shows entries by three different persons.) |
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