I have decided to make it my mission to return this bible to it's rightful family. Years ago, about 1983 or 1984 ish time frame, my family acquired this bible. Legally mind you, but it's not a very interesting story so I will skip it. Anyway upon it's arrival my sisters and I were interested in it and opened it up to look through it's very old pages. I realized that it not only was once someone else's bible but that is was a precious heirloom. This bible contains hair clippings from some ones first hair cut, lots of births deaths and marriages are recorded in it's pages along with news paper clippings. I figure this blog would be a good start to begin. I will be posting this post about once a month or so with different titles so that maybe some day someone surfing the web looking for their heritage will stumble across one of my postings. I will gladly hand this bible over to the family. Although I do have to mention that this thing is HUGE and if it needs to be mailed I may need to ask for shipping cost, I estimate it to come to $25+ dollars at least.
Family names in bible:
This was presented to a Mr. George Fred Hale by his mother Mrs. Annie Hale
Other names that appear William W. Hale a civil war vet. who died in 1910. My guess is this would be George's father. Then there is a McLean family mentions with death dates in the mid and late 1800's and my guess is this would be Mrs. Annie Hales parents.
The deaths and burials of these people were Prince Edward Island and Dorchester, Massachusetts. The bible was acquired in California near Fontana.
I pray that the rightful owner shows up someday so I may return this heirloom. I have no idea what to do with it if no one ever clams it. Also I am up for suggestions on how I can get this more public so it can be found.
1 comment:
That would be a really cool story if you ended up finding the family that the Bible used to belong to. I think it would be fun to play detective and try to them :) You can find anyone on the Internet these days.
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