Selman, Willis Family Bible

Date: 14 Feb 2020 [unknown]
Location: Texas
Surnames/tags: selman embry family_bible

Entries from the Holy Bible of Willis Selman.

HOLY BIBLE containing the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: together with THE APOCRYPHA: translated out of the original tongues, and with THE FORMER TRANSLATINGS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED with CANE'S MARGINAL NOTES AND REFERENCES to which are added AN INDEX; THE NAMES IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS TABLES OF SCRIPTURE, WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND COINS, ETC. Stereotyped by E. White, N-Div-York PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY KIMBER AND SHARPLESS, at their bookstore, No. 8 South 4th Street

Transcription of Title Page

Original in possession of John Martha (Selman) Kelley as of 14 February 2020.

Family Record

Marriages

"Willis Selman and Anna (Embry) Selman was Married November 4th in the year of our Lord 1828."

"Willis E. Selman and Martha J. Simpson was Married Oct 25th in the year of our Lord 1865."

Births

"Willis Selman was born in the State of Georgia, Elbert County, April 29th in the year of our Lord 1804."

"Anna (Embry) Selman was born in the state of Georgia, Jackson County June 23rd in the year of our Lord 1811."

"Elizabeth Jemima Selman was born in the state of Tennessee, Franklin County, December 12th in the year of our Lord 1829."

"Benjamin Thomas Selman was born in the state of Tennessee, Franklin County, March 20th in the year of our Lord, 1831."

"Sally Embry Selman was born in the state of Tennessee, Franklin County, October 22nd in the year of our Lord, 1832."

"Dorcus Amanda (Selman) Reynolds was born in the state of Alabama, Benton County, July 25th in the year of our Lord 1834."

"Maryann (Selman) Holcomb was born in the State of Alabama, Benton County, February 15th in the year of our Lord 1836."

"Joseph Greenlee Selman was born in the state of Alabama, Benton County, February 9th in the year of our Lord 1838."

"Helen Frances Adelaide Selman was born December 2nd in the year of our Lord 1840, Ala Benton Co."

"Willis Evans Selman was born December 16th 1842 Benton Co Ala"

"Leonidus Newton Selman was born June 28th in the year of our Lord 1845, Benton Co Ala."

"Virgil Homer Selmanwas born May 17th in the year of our Lord 1848 Cherokee Co. Texas"

"Anna Eliza Selman was born April 29th in the year of our 1851 Cherokee Co. Texas."

"John Bunyan Selman was born January 5th int he year of our Lord 1857 Cherokee County Texas"

'Cora Hellena Selman was born Oct. 30th in the year of our Lord 1866 Leon Co Texas"

"Willis Simpson Selman was born January 26th A. D. 1870 in Leon County, Tex."

"Arthur Selman was born Feb 17th 1874."

"Horace Selman was born Feb 20th 1877."

Deaths

"Thomas Selman Sr. died April 27th in the year 1816."

"Jemimah (Greenlee) Selman died April 20th in the year 1844."

"Anna (Embry) Selman died Oct 12th in the year of our Lord 1865"

"Benjamin Thomas Selman died June 1862."

"Joseph Greenlee Selman died Aug 7th in the year of our Lord 1863."

"Leonidus Newton Selman died Jun 19th 1920, Leon Co Texas."

"Elizabeth Jemima Selman wife of William McCullough died Marshall, Harrison County, Texas, October 28th 1870."

"Willis Evans Selman. Died at the home of his daughter (Manila) June 19th 1931. Terrell, Tex.

"Manila (Selman) Shepard died Oct. 4, 1959 at her niece Jane (Selman) Barron's home in Navasota, Tex. She was buried at Sardis Cemetery, Jewett, Texas."

"Anna (Selman) Langley (Aunt Lykie) died Sept. 13 1964 at her niece Jane's home in Navasota, Texas."

[Handwriting unreadable]

" Willis Selman died August 1901. He is buried in Sardis Cemetery, Jewett, Texas."