State-Wide, NC - Mirena L. Booker Williams Bible The following bible record is found on the LAGenWeb Archives at the following http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/state/bible/lghsbible/ This record is "bible3-2.txt" in the list of records Bible Records Published by Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society. Be it Known And Remembered: Vol. II, Bible Records 1961: Pages 1 - 60 Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by LGHS, Jun. 1998 MIRENA LEONORA BOOKER WILLIAMS BIBLE Hitchcock's, New York, 1886. Copied October 24, 1961 by Mrs. J.P. Norris, Jr., Kentwood, La. Original owner was Mirena Leonora Booker (1839-1922) who married H. C. Williams. It passed into possession of her daughter, Emma Eliza Williams who married R.P. Birch. Their daughter, Annie Lee Birch Byars, gave it to the present owner, Mrs. A. K. Browning, Pride, La., daughter of Claudie Williams and Beverley Walter Reames. The order of the entries is changed here, and some tombstone dates are added from the Stony Point Cemetery. Notation is in the Bible that all of the children of James Booker and Mary Higginbotham and those of H. C. Williams and Mirena. Leonora Booker were born in East Feliciana Parish. RECORD James Banker was born March 15, 1796 in North Carolina. He died Nov. 25, 1860. His wife, Mary Higginbotham was born May 8, 1807, in Georgia. She died Nov. 23, 1875. Their children, all born in East Feliciana Parish: Mary Jane Booker born 23 June 1824 Elizabeth Ann Booker born 29 June 1826 Rebecca Edwards Booker born 1 December 1828 Sarah Malvain Booker born 9 February 1831 Amanda N. Booker born 29 Nov. 1833 James Isaiah Booker born 31 August 1836 Mirena Leonora Booker born 21 Feb. 1839, died June 14, 1922, married January 21, 1857 H(oward) C(obb) Williams (See below) Catholine A. Booker born 1 Sept. 1842 Page 76 John Ruffin Booker born 12 Sept. 1845 Mary Leona Booker born 9 Nov. 1848 Howell Cobb Williams born January 8, 1836 died May 8, 1903, buried Stony Point Cemetery, married January 21, 1857 Mirena Leonora Booker (above) Their children, all born East Feliciana Parish: James Hubert Williams born 29 Sept. 1857 died 18 August 1923 (unmarried) Emma Eliza Williams born 4 Jan. 1859 died 15 June 1924 married Robert P. Birch (see below) Bev Lizie Anabell (Bell) Williams born 20 Sept. 1863 died 1 June 1913, mar- ried --Shaeffer. Her son Henry Shaeffer died Tulsa, Okla., Feb. 23, 1960 Chas. Shaffer and Lavila Wise was married October 6, 1918 Mary Mamie Booker Williams born 23 November 1865 died 10 Feb. 1957 (mar- ried Oscar Allen, Oakdale) Kindred "Kink" Williams born 26 July 1868 died 18 June 1908 (married Amelia Powers Browning, who had first married Walter Browning) Lula "Lulie" Gertrude Williams born 17 Apr. 1870 died 1 October 1921, married April 1, 19-- Alex Offutt (Her tombstone gives her birthdate as April 24) Howell Kirke Williams born 24 November, 1872 died 18 Feb. 1960 (married Clara Perkins) Willi Oscar Holt Williams born 15 April 1875, married India McQueen Williams. She died July 31, 1912 Havel Willie Edwin Williams born 6 October 1877, died 2 April 1878. d.y. Claudie Williams born 7 August 1880 died October 21, 1942 married Beverley Walter Reames, born 1880 (He married 2d. Nannie Redmond, no ch.) (See below) Kate Atkins Williams born 7 December 1883 died 18 April, 1916 (married Tel- lesfore Aucoin who married second, Celie Carpenter, no ch.) Entries in Bible, not known where they fit in: Johnie Buffington Williams died Nov. 5, 1910 May Belle Williams died Jan. 9, 1916 (dau. of Kink & Amelia Powers Browning Williams) Beverley "Bevie" Walter Reames (of Pride, La.) born Oct. 27, 1880, son of John Augusta Reames and Olivia Stockwell born Oct. 23, 1846 died Feb. 14, 1923 (who had first married Velmont Landry Aucoin. By her first husband she had: Wallace, Emma, William and Tellisfore Aucota. By John Augusta Reames she had two children, Beverley Walter Reames born 1880, and Nancy Josephine Reames who married Albert G. Carson. Olivia Stockwell was the daughter-of William Stockwell and Mary Bartel who had first married Pleasant McKeowen). Beverley Walter Reames married Claudie Williams born 7 August, 1880 (above) Their children: Allen Lee Reames born August 25, 1906 (married Bernice Clayton) Nannie Mae Reames born March 20, 1909 (married Alvan Kirby Browning) Page 77 Claude Clinton Reames born May 30, 1912 (married Catherine Porath Schmidt) Hazel Reames born Jan. 12, 1914 (married Oscar McLin, Pine Grove) Walter Alton Reames born May 2, 1915 (married Julia Dean Parath) Elaine Reames born March 12, 1917 (married Jewell Martin Williams). He died January 29, 1957 (no relation to her mother's family) Johnnie Bernice Reames born May 18, 1919 married Nov. 19, 1939 George Favarot Mabyn Alta Reames born July 22, 1922 (married Leonard Bowman Long) Bevis Wilkes Reames born March 12, 1924 (married Ruth Argrave) Emma Eliza Williams born January 4, 1859, died 15 June 1925 (above) married Robert P. Birch born June 1, 1848 died Feb. 6, 1929 Thomas Day Birch born Feb. 21, 1846, died 3 April 1930 married Ada Allen born Jan. 1, 1868, died March 17, 1939, no children. The following Birch children are listed in the Bible. The two Birch's above were brothers. Thomas Gordon Birch born 1897 died 15 Nov. 1917, unmarried, (son of R.P. and Emma Birch) Willie Sitman Burch sept. 7, 1895 died 6 June 1937, urmarried, (son of R.P. and Emma Birch) Howell Howdy Williams Birch died 6 May 1949, his wife Edith Stoner died Oct. 15, 1942 Robert Emmett Birch died 21 May, unm. Mary Booker Birch born 21 March 1899 died Feb. 26, 1960 (Married Jim DeLecerda) Sarah Lenora "Nora" Birch died April 26, 1953 (m. Jim Schilling as his second wife) Lula Gertrude Birch born Jan. 23, 1891 died Feb. 26, 1944 married Harry Redden born May 5, 1880 Annie Lee Birch born April 9, 1901 (m. Johnnie Byars) Rubie Birch died Feb. 18, 1899 Johnnie Birch died August 5, 1885 The 1850 Census of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, in the household of John Birch, aged 38, born in North Carolina, and his wife Sarah, 34, born North Carolina, children listed include Tom Birch, age 4 and Robert P. Birch, age 2. Others are John W., 15, W.D.G. Birch, 12, and N.R.R. Birch, 8. In the household there is also a Mary Moore, 68, born Vermont. ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society ______________________________________________________________________