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<p>[QUOTE="RachelW, post: 2337994, member: 15376"]Good evening all! I haven't been able to get out to any shops or sales so no new finds, but I wanted to share my very first purchase as a 13 year old. We were browsing a second hand store in Arizona when I came across this 1848 family bible. It didn't have a family tree that I could see, which was what I was wanting, but it was so old and worn I had to have it. The lady wanted 5 dollars and mom said I could get it. The Bible is worn, the pages are stained, torn, and yellowed. The first half of the book is in fairly good condition, but the second half's binding is shot and some pages fall out if you're not careful.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]260435[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]260436[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]260440[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Got it home and there were some treasures inside, a few pieces of paper with notes, a couple of pressed leaves, but also a little pamphlet dating to June 1879. Some more digging revealed a family record in between the old and new testaments spanning from the late 18th century to the 1940s! I was able to research their genealogy and found them in Tennessee. Don't know how it got to AZ but isnt that the nature of things. It's signed by Silas Bumpus (1836) in the back and then Edna Wilson (1873) in the front, so I assume he got it new and it was passed down from there. From their geneology I was able to match it to someone else's work who went even farther back and they appear to be descendants of such royals as Richard III.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]260441[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]260442[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]260443[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]260444[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]260445[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">I also found some of this family's descendants, and as much as I'd hate to part with it, I wonder if the family would like to have their Bible back.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RachelW, post: 2337994, member: 15376"]Good evening all! I haven't been able to get out to any shops or sales so no new finds, but I wanted to share my very first purchase as a 13 year old. We were browsing a second hand store in Arizona when I came across this 1848 family bible. It didn't have a family tree that I could see, which was what I was wanting, but it was so old and worn I had to have it. The lady wanted 5 dollars and mom said I could get it. The Bible is worn, the pages are stained, torn, and yellowed. The first half of the book is in fairly good condition, but the second half's binding is shot and some pages fall out if you're not careful. [CENTER][ATTACH=full]260435[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]260436[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]260440[/ATTACH][/CENTER] Got it home and there were some treasures inside, a few pieces of paper with notes, a couple of pressed leaves, but also a little pamphlet dating to June 1879. Some more digging revealed a family record in between the old and new testaments spanning from the late 18th century to the 1940s! I was able to research their genealogy and found them in Tennessee. Don't know how it got to AZ but isnt that the nature of things. It's signed by Silas Bumpus (1836) in the back and then Edna Wilson (1873) in the front, so I assume he got it new and it was passed down from there. From their geneology I was able to match it to someone else's work who went even farther back and they appear to be descendants of such royals as Richard III. [CENTER][ATTACH=full]260441[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]260442[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]260443[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]260444[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]260445[/ATTACH] I also found some of this family's descendants, and as much as I'd hate to part with it, I wonder if the family would like to have their Bible back.[/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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