JOSEPH ROPER BIBLE
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Joseph Roper, born 30th day of June, 1781
Martha Elam, born 11th day of November, 1784
Mildred Shouse, born 28th day of November, 1789

Children of First Wife:
William J. Roper, born 3rd day of August, 1802
Edmond Roper, born 29th day of July, 1803
Martha Roper, born 29th day of November, 1804

Children of Second Wife:
Clemence Roper, born 15th day of December, 1808
Dutoy Roper, born 25th day of March, 1810
Samuel H. Roper, born 20th day of December, 1811
Joseph Roper, born 30th day of July, 1813
Andrew Jackson Roper, born 25th day of March, 1815
John Roper, born 2nd day of January, 1817
Elam Roper, born 18th day of April, 1818
Elizabeth Roper, born 10th day of June, 1821
William Henry Roper, born 6th day of September, 1822
Lewis Roper, born 26th day of March, 1824
Edward Roper, born 7th day of April, 1826
Lucretia S. Roper, born 8th day of August, 1828
Lucy Ann Roper, born 6th day of October, 1830
Henrietta Roper, born 7th day of May, 1832

Marriages:
Joseph Roper and Martha Elam, married the 12th day of November, 1801
Joseph Roper and Mildred Shouse, married the 15th day of March, 1808
Lewis Scearce and Clemence Roper, married 23rd day of March, 1820
John Polsgrove and Martha Roper, married on 2nd day of July, 1829
 Dutoy Roper and Harriett Webb, married 26th day of September, 1833
Joseph Roper and Zulima Eleanor McClellan, married 22nd day of January, 1830
William H. Roper and Sarah Jane Kyle, married the 2nd day of Dec. 1841

I, J. F. Royster, a grandson of Clemence Roper and Lewis Scearce, now living in Fulton, 
Fulton County, Ky., certify that the foregoing list were originally copied from the old 
Family Bible of Joseph Roper, then in the hands of Joseph A. (known as Button) Roper, a 
son of Joseph Roper and Zulima McClellan, and then living about eight or ten miles north 
of Fulton, Ky. in Hickman Co., Ky., but now dead; after the death of said Button Roper, 
the bible passed into the hands of his son, Shouse Roper and was burned when his home 
was destroyed by fire five or siz years ago, and I think that copies of the above lists made 
by me or from lists given to other members of the family are the only authentic records of 
the original Roper family in Fulton County, Ky. or in Hickman Co., Ky., as Fulton Co., 
was a part of Hickman Co., until 1845 when it became a separate county, and every 
member of the family from and including William H. Roper must have been born in 
Hickman Co., Ky. The family came here from Shelby County, Ky.
								J. F. Royster
								Fulton, Ky.

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Orginially published in the Fulton/Hickman Genealogical Journal
Vol. 2. No. 1 - 1986