Granny Shephards Bible

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Miller County, Arkansas
Surname/tag: Green, Shephard, Kelley, Scott, Jester, Nelson, Lafayette

All I ever knew her by was Granny Shephard, she died when I was about 7 weeks old.

I first saw the bible back in the 1980s but Aunt Cleo wouldn't let me take the bible to have it copied. Too fragile for one or afraid I wouldn't bring it back.

When Cleo passed, she gave the bible to Vera Jane Scott Humphries, a cousin. Cleo's son Jerry did make copies of the pages, but forgot the copyright page. When Vera Jane passed, the bible was lost.

Jerry's son, Brent, going thru his father's things, found the bible pages he had made, called me and was telling me about them, and I said I wanted a copy. I have been enlarging to pixilation attempting to read the names. I've gone through my records, the tree at familysearch, another cousin's tree at ancestry, and have identified most of the names. Sometimes, just from the date of birth or date of death.

Part of the family entries were written in ink, part in pencil. The ink entries we have no problem reading.

These two pages would have been facing each other in the center of the book, names on the left and dates on the right.

From the different styles of handwriting, my best guestimate was E. D. Kelley wrote the top names, but he didn't. Celester is added and she was born after he died.

Dates filled in after 1954 were filled in by Cleo, or her family.

From the images you can see how hard it was to read and determine who was whom. I enlarged images to near pixalation to attempt to read or get some kind of clue. This also included a lot of RR&D. (Research, Recon, and Duplicate) Yes, I hit Familysearch Tree and Ancestry, updated FST on sources.

I struggled with the dates of Floyd and Lloyd Nelson. I was reading it like a genealogist, 2 Jan 1940, then it hit me, Granny or whomever wrote the names used the standard month day and year. Finally 2 (feb) 6th came thru.

The spelling of Nancy Carylon is as in the bible, 1940 census has her as Carolyn.

Granny Shephard's Bible

#	First	Last	POB	DOB	DOM	DOD	Note
1	E. D.	Kelley	Summittville, Indiana	8.12.1871	7.4.1895	2.7.1904
2	Angie	Kelley	on Deck's Hill	2.17.1879	7.4.1895	May 25 1954	looks to be eraced
3	Arrany	Kelley	on Dillards Plantation	4.10.1896		10 _ 1915
4	Jannie	Kelley	on Wittle Plantation	9.5.1897		11.23.1928
5	Detralhuann	Kelley	on Dillards plantation	12.27.1898		8.20.1907
6	Jesse D	Kelley	on Dillards plantation	12.26.1900		6-10-1973
7	Celester	Kelley	on Green Plantation	3.25.1904	9.30.1922	3.9.1977
8	Thomas Jefferson	Scott	on the Scott Place	12.10.1910	1.21.1930	11-21-1981
9	Cleo	Jester	on Booker Place	4 28 1913	Oct 19 1939	Oct 6, 1997
10	Ralph	Jester	On the Powell Place	12 25 1915	(3 June 1939 *)	May 22, 1979	bd was started in the m column
11	J. C.	Loyd	on the Hackner Place	12 8 1919	20 Dec 1941	Nov 25 1970
12	Zelma Lucille	Nelson	Garland, Arkansas	1 30 1924	(2 Aug 1939*)		(still living*)
13	H(erbert) L(ewis)	Nelson	Polk and Dillard place	4/11/1926
14	Eva	Lafayette	Lafayette Place	1/3/19/14
15	Guy JR	Nelson	R V Lewis farm	Sept 18 1928
16	Maxie L	Kelley					(still living)
17	Donald B	Kelley					(still living)
18	Ophelia Elizabeth	Scott	McDonalds farm	4 4 1934		4 21 1934	slightly illegible, dates from FAG
19	Imogene Beatrice	Nelson		Aug * 1935
20	Nancy Carylon	Nelson		Sept * 1938
21	A F	Shepherd	Lauderdale, Miss	5 13 1884	5 22 1909	1 11 1941
22	Floyd	Nelson		2 6th 1940
23	Lloyd	Nelson		2 6th 1940		6 3 40	twins written on same line
24	Vera Jane	Scott		8 10 1936
25	Veronica Geraldine	Jester	Crockett, Texas	8 17 1941
26	Aunt Cat	Green		1893			Written on bottom of page in Cleo's hand