The Family Bible

On February 12, 1887, the congregation in Rixford PA presented a family Bible to John Jack. John was an unordained minister in the Methodist Church. Inside the Bible the names of the people who presented it to him can be found on two lists. Below is a copy of one of the lists with a transcription following:

"Following are the names that presented this Holy Bible to John Jack Feb 12-1887"

Mr. and Mrs. Miller

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Martin

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Martin

Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Nutting

Mr. and Mrs. Lawry

Mr. and Mrs. Knox

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Hindman

Mrs. Lincoln

Mrs. N. C. Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Delmage

Mr. and Mrs. Park

Mrs. F. J. Newton

Miss Ida Lincoln

Rev. Wm. Luck

Mr. and Mrs. Campbell

Mr. and Mrs. Flyte

"John Jack presented it to his daughter Hattie M. Smith Sept. 9-1912"

Hattie later passed this Bible on to one of her three daughters (my grandmother) who passed it on to my mother and she passed it on to me.

It is interesting to me that there is a Park family listed. One of John Jack's daughters, Lola May, married George Almond Park Feb 9, 1886, almost exactly one year before the presentation of this Bible.