W. J. Penton 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 31 and 32.  

Penton Bible, pages 31 and 32
         
Original Owner:  W. J. Penton and Mary Susan Thigpen Penton.
Present Owner:  Mrs. Rosa Penton Hodges, Covington Highway,                  
                Franklinton, La. (Daughter of the second                     
                marriage of W. J. Penton.
Copied:  December 1962 by Mrs. R. A. Magee, Franklinton, La.,         
         and Mrs. Doyle L. Bateman, Baton Rouge, La.
Submitted by:  Mrs. R. A. Magee, Franklinton, La.
         
         
The sheet giving the name of publisher and date was torn, but the Bible is
The Revised version of A. D. 1881 of the version set forth A. D. 1611.  It was
a gift from Mr. Wash. S. Thigpen to his daughter, Mary Susan Thigpen and her
Husband, William Jasper Penton.
         
Record Sheets:
         
Marriages:
         
Wm. J. Penton and Mary Thigpen - January 10th, 1878, Washington Parish, La.
Wm. J. Penton and Martha S. Spinks - September 29, 1889.
Hugh J. Penton, Tangipahoa Parish, La. and Valeria Richardson - Jan. 12, 1909.
Willie Otis Corkern, Washington parish, La. and Rosa S. Penton, Washington
  Parish, La.
Leonard Wilson Penton, February 28, 1909, Tangipahoa Parish, La. and
  _______blank.
William Chancy Penton married to Ada Burch May the 17, 1910, Washington
  Parish, La.
         
Births:
         
Wm. J. Penton born May 2, 1856.
Mary Susan Thigpen born September 20th, 1862.
Martha Jane Spinks born 1860.
Leonard Wilson Penton - August 21st, 1880, Washington Parish, La.
Julian Onice Penton - February 24, 1883.
Hugh Jackson Penton - Oct. 25th, 1885, Washington Parish, La.
William Chancy Penton born June 18, 1891.
Rosa Sarenie Penton - September 8th, 1893, Wash. Parish, La.
Martin Kinza Penton - December 29th, 1895- Tangipaho Parish, La.
Mary Jane Penton - Julye 27, 1899 -Tangipaho Parish, La.
Theodore Clifton Corkern born March 20, 1910.- Washington Parish, La.
Lucile Corkern - July 8, 1911.
B. K. (Billie Kinzy) Corkern - Aug. 15, 1917, Washington Parish, La.
Leonard Wilson Corkern born __?__ 16, 1913, Washington Parish, La.
Lucille Elizabeth Corkern - Borned July 8th, 1911 - Washington Parish, La.
(different handwriting from other entries).
         
Deaths:
         
Mary S. Penton - Febr. 6th, 1887.
Mary Thompson - Jan. 6, 1921.
Mildred Corkern - Nov. 9, 1921.
W. J. Penton - Jan. 11, 1937.
Martha E. Penton - Aug.27, 1939.
Mary Jane Penton - Feb. 24, 1940.
J. O. Penton - Tuesday, March 25, 1952.

On the Fly Sheet in Pencil; and different handwriting:
         
W(illiam) J(asper) Penton was born May 2, 1856.
Martha Spinks was born 1860.
         
Mary Muriel Penton United with Poyner Baptist Church, Poyner, Texas;
Thursday night, Aug. 12, 1915 - Baptized Friday Evening, Aug.13, 1915.