Murray Breland Family Bible Records, Washington Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Edie McKinney Talley
Transcribed by Ken Baughman


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Source:  Bible Records:  Copied and compiled by: Zuma F. Magee,
Franklinton, LA., and Thelma S. Bateman, Baton Rouge, LA. 1964,
pages 7 and 8.


Breland Bible

Original Owner: Murray and Ruby Breland.
Present Owner:  Mrs. Murray A. Breland, Mt. Hermon, La.
Copied:  Dec. 26, 1962 by Mrs. R. A. Magee, Franklinton, La.

"THE HOLY BIBLE" - Complete and How to Understand It.
Printed by J. A. Wilmore & Co., 43 & 45 Centre St. - Successors
to A. J. Johnson and Co., 11 Treat Jones St., N. Y. - MDCCCXC.

On the front sheet - Murray and Ruby Breland's Book, Dec. 10, 1917.

On F1y Leaf: - Murray A. Breland and Ruby E. Westmoreland were
married Dec. 27, 1913.

Family Record Sheets:

Births:

Cicero M. Breland was born January 29 A. D., 1857.
Fanny Breland was born February 5 A. D. 1850.
Spurgeon Breland was born August 21 A. D. 1884.
Murray Albert Breland was born May 21 A. D. 1886.
Robert Milton Breland was born February 14 A. D. 1889.
Lava Luther Breland was barn June 3 A. D. 1891.

Marriages:

Cicero M. Breland and Fanny Carter was married May 31 A.D. 1883.
Robert M. Breland and Cora E. Pierce was married May 23, 1910.
Murray A. Breland and Ruby E. Westmoreland was married Dec. 27, l9l3.
Alva L. Bre1and and Leanous Alma Crow was married Dec. 25, 1914.

Deaths:

Spurgeon Breland departed this life August 4 A. D. 1886.
Fannie Breland died Feb. 21, 3 o'clock A. M., 1917.
Cicero Breland died Sept. 24, - 3 o'clock P. M. 1917.

On a loose sheet of tablet writing paper: (handwriting and paper both very 
old) ?

Elizabeth Powell was born Dec. 1816 - Died  Jan. 8, 1885.
Letha Ann Powell died April 23, 1895.
William Powell died May 16, 1895.
Hannah Prestige, Wife of James Denman - Parents of Elizabeth Denman 
Powell, (no dates)

News Paper clipping: Sudden Death - 8 o'olock A. M. Thursday,
April 23, 1895 - Miss Aletha Ann Powell, the oldest daughter of Mr. & 
Mrs. William Powell of Amite Co., Miss. - about 50 years old.  Interred
in Family burying ground on Mr. James Carter's Plantation.  Rev. J. W.
Sandell and Rev. E. F. Edgar, officiating.

A type written loose sheet:
 
Beryl Bernice Breland, Shreveport, La. Mar. 1, 1911.
Lyman Abbott Breland, Biloxie, Miss., May 13, 1912.
Robert Pearce Breland, Ocean Springs, Miss., May 24, 1914.
Charles Gregory Breland, Jackson, Miss., May 18, 1916.
Douglass Powell Breland, Memphis, Tenn., June 29, 1918.
Kenneth Rogers Breland, Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 12, 1923.
Donald Humphry Breland, July 18, 1925.
Jean Frances Breland, Alexandria, La., March 9, 1928.
Leah Fentress Breland, New Orleans, La., December 17, 1929.
Gloria Del Breland, Metairie, Jefferson Parish, La., Feb. 24, 1931.
Hunter Mansfield Breland, Mobile, Ala., August 11, 1933.

(The above is issue from marriage of Robert M. Breland and
Cora E. Pierce, married at Baton Rouge, La., May 23, 1910.)

Cora Pierce Breland departed this life at Mobile, Ala.,
Feb. 21, 1936, buried in Memorial Park, Memphis, Tenn.