KNOX COUNTY, TN - BIBLES - Renfro/Rentfrow/Cox Family Bible
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Contributor's Notes:  Below is the info on 2 old Bible pages on the 
Renfro/Renfros; it appears that it is over 150 years old.   It's yellowing, 
the ink is fading, and it's about to fall apart - but it's still almost all 
readable.  I'm almost afraid to copy it since it is just so fragile.

From the Knox Co. Census records and the probate records (dated 1836) for
Stephen Renfro, we have determined that the parents of these Renfro children
were Stephen Renfro (b. 1790) and Eleanor Christer who were married in Knox
Co., TN in 1814.     

Their daughter , Amanda Mary Renfro (listed in these Bible records), was
married to my 2G-grandfather, Curd Cox, in 1849.  This Curd was a grandson of
OLD Curd Cox, the R. W. soldier who fought at the Battle of Guilford
Courthouse, ca. 1780, near present day Greensboro, NC.

These Renfro/Rentfro pages were in the old trunk of my g-aunt, Harriet
Cox Walker, when she died about 1973.   She inherited the old Knox County 
Cox/Major farm on Stormer Road, near its loop with Beeler - just a few miles 
off Emory Rd. between the Halls and Gibbs communities.   From the records, we 
found that aunt Harriet bought out my grandfather's share of the farm for 
$400.00 in 1914 approx.    

Harriet's older daughter, Viva, took all these old family records when they
settled Harriet's affairs, and I just made contact with them in Florida this
past year.

Note that they changed the spelling from Rentfro to Renfro over that 20 years?  
One other thing is that someone (who knows when) apparently used a quill pen 
to darken some of the letters that were fading.    The name is actually 
spelled 3 or 4 different ways in the Knox Co. records.   I wasn't sure of the 
spelling when I started researching, but this document shows even they changed 
it over the years. 

(left side of page - pg.1)

Robert Rentfro
September 18      1815

Margaret Rentfro
December 25       1817

James Rentfro born
 January 6    1821

Elisabeth Rentfro
 word?  word?  was born
the 29th of October 1823

John Christian was born
27th of June 1826 in the
evening ------- and died
27th of August 1827


 (right side of page-pg. 2)

Amanda Mary was 
born 17th of June 1828 at                                            
4 o'clock in the afternoon

Sarah Adeline Renfro & Matilda Carroline Renfro
was born Febr 16th 1831  in
 the morning

Barthelay Renfro                       
was born the 21st of January 1835

  [Bartholay was later referred to as Barth Renfro in the Knox Co. records]