Family Bible of Hosea Bright Breazeal & Sarah Elizabeth Mayfield of Spearsville Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 11/2000 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================= Mr. Gene Barron of West Monroe is currently the owner of the family pages from Bright Breazeal's Bible. It consists of four pages with two columns to each page. Each entry in the Bible is in the handwriting of Bright Breazeal. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Comments: The surname we spell today as "Breazeal" was spelled in numerous ways prior to 1900. Hosea Bright Breazeal himself spelled his own surname in a variety of different ways in his own family Bible. Although he had enough of an education to serve as both a justice of the peace and church clerk, he signed his name variously as "Breazeale", "Brazeal", and "Brazeal". Hosea Bright Breazeal and Sarah Elizabeth Mayfield were both born in Pendleton District SC, but moved with their families to neighboring plantations in southeastern Tuscaloosa County AL in their youths. Their families went to church together, and they married and raised their family there until 1857 when their eldest daughter died. The next year, Bright and Sarah sold their plantation and moved to Caledonia, in southern Union County AR, where their relatives had moved in the early 1850s. With the outbreak of the war, several of their sons joined the Confederate Army, and Bright himself served as an officer in the Union County Home Guard. Their eldest son Andrew J. Breazeale died at Fort Pillow in 1862. In 1866, Bright and Sarah sold their plantation in Arkansas and moved a few miles south, to a new farm that lay north of Spearsville, in Union Parish LA. They lived there for the rest of their lives. ================================================================================== Hosea Bright Breazeal Family Bible Pages Page 1, Column 1: Marriages H. B. Breazeale and Sarah Eliza Brazeale his Wife Was Married the 18 Day of Febuary [sic] 1836th and was [sic] H. B. Breazeale was Born the 5th Day of April 1813 Sarah E. Mayfield his wife was Born June 17th 1819th Page 1, Column 2: Marriages T. A. Breazeale was maried [sic] June the 12: 1856 Arrena E. Breazeale was maried [sic] January 6th 1859 J. K. P. Brazeal Was maried [sic] May the 27 1866 R. S. Brazeal Was maried [sic] July the 19th 1866 K. A. Brazeal Was maried [sic] August the 9th 1866 Page 2, Column 1: Births T. A. Breazeale Was Born January the 10th 1837 A. J. Breazeale Was Born the 21th [sic] Day December 1838th Arrena E. Breazeale Was Born the the [sic] 19 Day of March 1841 Reuben S. Breazeale Was Born the 25 of Febuary [sic] 1843 James K. P. Breazeale Was Born the 2 Day December 1844 Page2, Column 2: Deaths Nancy Permelia Breazeale Was Born the May [sic] 14th 1847 and Died the June 18 Tabitha A. Breazeale was Born January 10 1837 and Died October 8 1857 Andrew J. Breazeale Was Born December 21th [sic] 1838 and Died April 25th 1862 age 24 years 4 month [sic] and 3 days [at the top of this page one can see the calculations Bright Breazeal must have used to determine the age of Andrew J. Breazeal] Page 3, Column 1: Births Keturah A. Brazeal Was Born the 22 of October 1848 Martha R. E. Breazeale Was Born the 29th of September 1851 Sarah Ann Eliza Breazeale was Born June 7th 1854 Hosea W. Breazeale was Born August 29th 1857 Hosea Woodford Breazeale was Bor [sic] August 29th 1857 [this entry made twice in the Bible] Page 3, Column 2: Deaths Nancy Lawless was Born March 11th 1791 and Died June 17th 1841 Page 4, Column 1: Births Laury Lawless was Born the 24th of August 1822 Elijah W. Breazeal was Born June 23 1860 Laura Agnes Brazeal Born December 29th 1863 Page 4,] Column 2: Deaths: blank ##############################################################################