Stone-Izard County ArArchives Bible Records.....Nelson/Edwards Bible Copyright Date July 2, 2011
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Donnie Rupp DonnieR1@att.net July 2, 2011, 3:34 pm

This Bible was carried by Martin and Susannah Edwards Nelson from Pitt County, 
North Carolina, their original home, to Izard County, Arkansas. The part of 
Izard County where they resided was reformed into Stone County, Arkansas, in 
1873. Martin died in Mountain View, then Izard County, in 1852 and his wife in 
1886 in Mountain View in, by that time, Stone County.

The Bible was handed down to Martin’s and Susannah’s daughter Sidney (Siddie) 
Nelson Atchison who in turn left it to her daughter Lucy Jane Atchison 
Franklin Ward. Lucy Jane gave the Bible to her daughter Dorothy May Franklin 
Thurman who then gave it to her son Robert Louis Thurman. In 2005 when his 
wife died and he no longer worked on family genealogy, he gave the Bible to 
his niece Donnie Mabe Rupp, his sister Mary’s daughter. She still has 
possession of the Bible.

The Bible is, as usual, divided into the Old and New Testaments. The cover, 
frontispiece, publishing information, and first 30 pages of the Bible are 
missing. However, as each testament was considered a separate book, the New 
Testament had a cover page. It reads:

The
NEW TESTAMENT
Of our 
Lord and Saviour
JESUS CHRIST
Translated out of 
THE ORIGINAL GREEK
And with the
FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.
STEREOTYPED
FOR THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
BY D. & G. BRUCE
NEW YORK
1827

On the back of this page is written:

Martin Nelson was
Born July 22th 1796
and Departed this
Life July 1852
Aged 56 years

Martin Nelson [written and then lined out]

Susannah Nelson was 
born July 26th 1805
(wife of Martin Nelson)
Departed this life Sept. 
the 4th A. D. 1886
Age 81 years 1 month & days ? (illegible)

[In front of the New Testament cover page, four small pages were sewn in to 
record additional family information.]

[1st page; only one side contained information]

Mahala Nelson was [was is lined out]
the daughter of Martin 
& Susannah Nelson, was
Born March 6th 1822

John G. B. Nelson the
Son of Martin & Susannah
Nelson, was Born
May the 27th 1824

Siddy Nelson the
Daughter of Martin
and Susannah Nelson
was born June 
the 7th 1827

[2nd page; front]

Sophy Ann Nelson the
Daughter of Martin &
Susannah Nelson was
Born Feb 22th 1830

Mary Ester Elizabeth
Nelson, the Daughter
of Martin & Susannah
Nelson was born
October 26th 1834

Martin Van Buren
Nelson the Son of
Martin & Susannah
Nelson was born July
the 17 1838

[2nd page; reverse]

Sophy Ann Nelson
was born Feb. 22nd
1830. Departed this
life Feb 26th 1880
Age 50 years & 4 days

[3rd page]

James Stanley Nelson
the Son of Martin and
Susannah Nelson was
Born December 4th 1840

Susan Jane Nelson
the daughter of
Martin and Susannah
Nelson wa born June
the 1th 1843

[4th page is blank]

[On the blank page at the end of the Bible, which is torn and hard to read, is 
the following:]

James Edward Son of
Esther and John Edwards
was born A.D. 1794 July 7

Winiford Edwards was 
Born - - - A. D. 1797
on Sept. 24

Silas Edwards was born
Nov. 8th - - - -A. D. 1800

Susannah Edwards was born
July 25th - - - -A. D. 1805

Patsy Ann Edwards was born
July 4th - - - -A. D. 1808

scans of this Bible can be found at
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/stone/photos/documents/nelson1.jpg
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/stone/photos/documents/nelson2.jpg
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/stone/photos/documents/nelson3.jpg
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/stone/photos/documents/nelson4.jpg
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/stone/photos/documents/nelson5.jpg
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/stone/photos/documents/nelson6.jpg
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/stone/photos/documents/nelson7.jpg

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