McDonald family Bible, Jackson Co., Arkansas Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn Johnson Mahan . ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ [The McDonald and Johnson families lived in Jackson County, Arkansas, around Newport, Tupelo, Weldon and Shoffner.] From a pictorial family Bible (published by the National Publishing Company) presented to Louella Alice (Lula) Johnson McDonald by her brother, Edward Woodson Johnson, in August 1882. ************************************************************************ MEMORANDA Bessie McDonald was born on the Sabbath between twelve and one o’clock. Pearl was born on Wednesday about two o’clock.---- She died on Wednesday thirty minutes after seven am 1883. BIRTHS Bessie Gertrude McDonald was born October 27th, 1878. Died ----- Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 9, 1918. Lula Pearl McDonald was born December 2-th, 1881. Ernest McDonald was born January 16th, AD 1884. Edgar Earl McDonald was born December 1st, AD 1885. Henry Augustus McDonald born November 20th, 1888, died Nov. 27, 1918. E. S. McDonald was born Aug. 4th, 1854. Lula Johnson McDonald was born Jan. 17, 1857. Attie Lou McDonald was born Jan. 19th, 1893. Roselynn McDonald was born June 23rd, 1895. Mary Katherine McDonald was born Jan. 4th, 1898. MARRIAGES Bessie Gertrude McDonald and Dr. W. F. Ball married Jan. 27, 1904. Methodist Church, Batesville, Ark. 4:30 pm Wednesday. Ernest Franklin McDonald and Margaret Helen Duncan married March 12, 1916. At home, 1601 W. 22nd St., Little Rock, Ark ----- aft. 3:30. Roselynn McDonald and R. Grandison Kettering married April 25, 1917. Winfield Memorial Parsonage, 15th & Center St., Little Rock, Wednesday 4 pm. Mary McDonald and --------------W. Cornish married April -------------------------- 9 o’clock. Roselynn married Claude V. Holloway on Friday March 13, 1926 at Benton, Arkansas. They were married by Dr. Alonzo Monk. Attye Lou McDonald and Ralph S. Kettering married Dec. 4th, 1923. Grandilynn Kettering and Jack Joseph Davis married July 24th, 1938. Rosemary Cornish and John W. Sneed were married October 20, 1940. DEATHS Lula Pearl McDonald departed this life August 1sr, 1883. Our dear mother Lula Johnson McDonald departed this life May 18, 1917 at nine thirty pm Friday. Bess died Oct. 9, 1918 at 4:30. Grandison died October 11, 1918 at 5 o’clock. Gus died Nov. 27, 1918 in Colo. at night. Papa died March 14, 1928 at 1 am. Ralph S. Kettering and Attye Lou McDonald were married at Hot Springs, Ark on Dec. 4th, 1923. Earl died June 6th, 1943 at 12:10 am. Grandilynn Kettering Davis departed this life at 2am Dec. 6, 1946 at the Baptist Hospital. ************************************************************************