John RISLEY Family Bible, Atlantic County, NJ

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" JOHN RISLEY BIBLE RECORD "
ATLANTIC COUNTY
NEW JERSEY

JOHN N. RISLEY was born September 9, 1779 and died June 27th, 1851.
He married, November 9, 1806,
ELIZABETH BEVIS who was born December 11, 1784 and died January 2, 1865.

Their son, JOHN RISLEY, was born October the 19th, 1807.

JOHN RISLEY was married to SOPHIA SMITH on August 11, 1828.

JOHN RISLEY was married to ANNA SCULL on September 19, 1857.

ANNA SCULL, the wife of JOHN RISLEY, was born January 7th, 1829.
She was the daughter of JOHN and LYDIA (SMITH) SCULL.

ELIZABETH RISLEY, daughter of JOHN and SOPHIA (SMITH) RISLEY, was born June the 
12th, 1829.

HENRY RISLEY, son of JOHN and SOPHIA (SMITH) RISLEY, was born January the 15th, 
1831.

ALICE RISLEY, daughter of JOHN and SOPHIA (SMITH) RISLEY, was born January 20th, 
1833.
She married JOHN ADAMS, the son of RYON ADAMS.

RICHARD I. RISLEY, son of JOHN and SOPHIA (SMITH) RISLEY, was born December 20, 
1834.

RICHARD I. RISLEY died June 28, 1922.

MARY and ELIZABETH RISLEY, daughters of JOHN and SOPHIA (SMITH) RISLEY, were 
born January the 1st, 1837.

ARABELL RISLEY, daughter of JOHN and SOPHIA (SMITH) RISLEY, was born April the 
21st, 1839.

ARABELL (RISLEY) SCULL, widow of JOHN B. SCULL, died February 1, 1926, in her 
86th year.

JOHN S. RISLEY, son of JOHN and ANNA (SCULL) RISLEY, was born September 12, 
1861.

JOHN S. RISLEY died January 31, 1916.

JOHN S. RISLEY of Atlantic County, New Jersey, and LIZZIE MOUNCE of Atlantic 
County, New Jersey, were married December 3, 1878, by Rev. John A. B. Wilson, 
pastor of Asbury M. E. Church of Wilmington, Delaware.

WALTON RISLEY, son of JOHN S. and LIZZIE (MOUNCE) RISLEY, was born March 23, 
1880.

LIZZIE MOUNCE, wife of JOHN S. RISLEY, was born May 2nd, 1862, and died Monday 
evening, May 18, 1908, aged 46 years.

ELIZABETH RISLEY died aged 8 months.

SOPHIA RISLEY, wife of JOHN RISLEY, died March the 3rd, 1857.

WALTON RISLEY married, August 27, 1898, AGNES FREAS LEEDS, daughter of BENJAMIN 
F. and REJOICE (TREEN) LEEDS, born January 27, 1880.

ARMENIA LEEDS RISLEY, daughter of WALTON and AGNES FREAS (LEEDS) RISLEY, was 
born January 18, 1900.

ARMENIA LEEDS RISLEY and ALLEN BROWN TOWNSEND were married December 17, 1924 in 
Philadelphia.

ALLEN BROWN TOWNSEND, son of CAPTAIN JOHN E. JONES and MAY (MADDEN) TOWNSEND, 
was born May 17, 1898.

JUNE ARMENIA TOWNSEND, daughter of ALLEN B. and ARMENIA LEDDS (RISLEY) TOWNSEND, 
was born June 23, 1926.

JAMES WALTON TOWNSEND, son of ALLEN B. and ARMENIA LEEDS (RISLEY) TOWNSEND, was 
born Friday, May 31st, 1929.

BERTHA ELIZABETH RISLEY, daughterof JOHN S. and LIZZIE (MOUNCE) RISLEY, was born 
June 21, 1884. She married, November 11, 1922, at Pleasantville, New Jersey,
ALFRED EDWARDS who was born February 3, 1874, at Stokes, St. Millborough, 
England.

CAROLYN MOUNCE RISLEY, daughter of JOHN S. and LIZZIE (MOUNCE) RISLEY, was born 
May 21, 1886.
She married, October 25, 1913, WALTER LASHLEY.

MILDRED ELIZABETH LASHLEY, daughter of WALTER and CAROLYN MOUNCE (RISLEY) 
LASHLEY, was born February 16, 1915.

CAROLYN MOUNCE (RISLEY) LASHLEY married November 3, 1923, CLIFFORD BRADWAY 
MULFORD who was born October 13, 1889, at Salem, N.J.



The foregoing record was copied, Nov. 7, 1929, from the Bible which is now in 
possession of Mr. Walton Risley, Pleasantville, N.J.