Purtle - Holcomb Family Bible, Texarkana *********************************************************** Submitted by: < > Date: 13 Oct 2000 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Extract of family Bible of Thomas Jefferson Purtle and wife Francis Cassandra Holcomb, by John Tillman Burrow, Rt. 11, Box 103, Texarkana, Tx., 75501. Thomas J. Purtle and Cassie Holcomb were united by me in the Holy Bonds of Matrimony at Jno. Riddling on the 23rd day of Feb. in the year of our lord 1871, in the presence of Jon. Boswell. Signed J. J. Byers. Births: Thomas J. Purtle b. March 19, 1848 Cassie Holcomb b. Aug. 29, 1848. John T. Purtle b. Dec. 13, 1871. Robert L. Purtle b. Dec. 12, 1873. Alfred J. Purtle b. July 18, 1876. Christopher Columbus Purtle b. Sept. 19, 1878. Girtrude Purtle b. Feb. 24, 1881. Galveston Purtle b. Sept. 9, 1883. Mattie A. Purtle b. March 26, 1886. Rufus K. purtle b. Sept 3, 1888. Marriages: John T. Purtle married Portia C. Almand; August 16, 1893. Robert L. Purtle M. Girtrude Almand on October 7, 1896. Deaths: John T. Purtle d. December 10, 1895 (grandfather of John T. Burrow) Supplement: George Purtle was grandfather of Thomas J. Purtle. George married Sally Kerr oct. 19, 1820. Marriage bann on Oct. 14. He paid a bond of $200 to a orphans home for release of Sally. Signed by George Purtle and Ben'j Ragland. Cahawba Co. (Now Bibb Co. Alabama Marriage records. Lawrence Carr Purtle b. Aug. 27, 1821, Bibb Co. AL., d. Feb. 26, 1906, Nevada Co. Ark. married March 26, 1846, Mississippi to Mary A. Billingsley b. ? Lawrence Carr was a son of the above George Purtle, and father of Thomas Jefferson Purtle. X 1 Spring 1983 Texarkana Quarterly