Bible of GEORGE TYLER and CAROLINE ELIZABETH TRAVERSE TYLER; Dorchester Co., MD

Submitted By: Jacqueline Hedberg [hedbergjj@comcast.net] 

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The Bible of GEORGE TYLER and CAROLINE ELIZABETH TRAVERSE TYLER of Hoopers 
                              Island, Maryland



                                    The
                                 HOLY BIBLE
                                 Containing
                        The Old and New Testaments:
   Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former translations 
                      diligently compared and revised.
          With Marginal Readings, References, and Chronological Dates.
               New York: Published by George Lane & Levi Scott
                             200 Mulberry-street
                           Joseph Longking, Printer
                                    1851

Inside the front cover in purple ink is written “George Tyler”
On the frontispiece is written in pencil “Solomon F. Tyler, Hoopers Island”
Pasted on that page are two poems in memoriam to Matthew T. Tyler from his 
children on the one-year anniversary of his death on March 28, 1926.

In the middle of the Bible, a section entitled FAMILY RECORD contains the 
following:

Marriages
(purple ink) “Saml G. Meekins & Caroline R. Tyler was maried Jenvry, the 
23..1871”
(in pencil) “Allie W Tolley and B Agnes North Were married July 16th 1916”

Births
(written in purple ink, apparently by Caroline R. Meekins)   
                “George. Tyler was born May the 5. 1812
            Caroline E. Tyler was born October the 5. 1818
            Caroline R. Tyler was born August the 31. 1854
            Edith Oleny Meekins was born December the 22 1872
            Rody. M. Meekins was born November the 22. 1875”

(written in black ink by Tillie Tyler Dunnock Simmons)
            Tillie Dunnock borned Feb 27th 1879
            A. Mildred Dunnock borned May 21st 1900
            Roland M. Dunnock was borned Sept. 12th 1903
            Raymond Simmons borned Sept 24th 1911
            James M. Simmons borned May 10th 1913

(in pencil)      Allie W Tolley was July 13 – 1892
            B Agnes North Was Born July 6 – 1900
            Jermeiah Wendell Tolley was Born May 30 – 1917


Deaths
(written in purple ink apparently by Caroline R. Meekins)  
                “Mary E. Tyler Departed this Life August the 8 18
            dear sister whe mist those 
            pressious Smils those Childish
            walkes and ways  But trust 
            in the Lord whe all shall meet 
            Again Beyonnd the grave      
                        Caroline R. Meekins”

(written in black ink by Tillie Tyler Dunnock Simmons)
            “Matthew T. Tyler died March 28th 1926 (87 years old)”



This Bible apparently first belonged to George Tyler, but it was not inscribed 
until it became the property of his daughter Caroline R. Meekins.  Then the 
bible was in the possession of her brother Solomon F. Tyler.  Later it was owned 
by Solomon’s brother Matthew Tyler.  Upon Matthew Tyler’s death, it became the 
property of Tillie Dunnock Simmons (Matthew’s daughter), and then it was owned 
by Raymond H. Simmons (Tillie’s son).  The bible is now in the Parker-Simmons 
Homeplace, Hoopers Island, Maryland.