William Henry Culpepper
Family Bible
(Originally owned by Miss Emma Carlisle)
Louina, Randolph Co., AL
The following pages are from a Bible taken to the H. Grady
Bradshaw Chambers County (Alabama) Library and Cobb Memorial Archives by
an unidentified individual who purchased the Bible at an area yard sale.
This person took the Bible and its attendant family records to the Archive
in hopes of identifying relatives of those persons named in the Bible.
The Bible appears to have been owned originally by Miss
Emma Carlisle, and handed down in her family.
The Bible records were photocopied by the Archivist, Mrs.
Miriam Syler, who provided copies of those original copies to C.C.
Culpepper who, in turn, transcribed the following pages on February 22,
2003.
Every effort was made to be true to the original spellings
and punctuation found in the Bible records. Those rare cases where the
transcriber could not clearly make out legible words or letters, and any
commentary from the transcriber are clearly identified by use of
parenthesis surrounding any information not contained in the original
copies.
Transcribed pages contain the same information as the
original page, and every effort has been made to capture the information
as it appeared in the original document.
THE SELF-INTERPRETING
NEW
TESTAMENT
WITH
COMMENTARIES, REFERENCES, HARMONY OF THE
GOSPELS
AND THE HELPS NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND
AND TEACH THE TEXT,
ILLUSTRATED AND EXPLAINED
BY
OVER ONE HUNDRED PHOTOGRAPHS
SHOWING THE
PLACES AS THEY APPEAR TO-DAY WHERE CHRIST DELIVERERED HIS SERMONS, PER-
FORMED HIS
MIRACLES, UTTERED HIS PARABLES, OFFEREED HIS PRAYERS, PROUNOUNCED
HIS PROPHETIC
WARNINGS, AND THE MEMORABLE PLACES CONNECTED WITH
THE LIFE OF
ST. PAUL, FROM DAMAASCUS, WHERE HE WAS CON-
VERTED, TO
ROME, WHERE HE WAS BEHEADED;
COMPRISING
THE SCENES OF
BIBLICAL EVENTS IN NAZARETH, BETHLEHEM, EGYPT,
JERUSALEM, JERICHO,
JORDAN,
TIBERIAS, CANA OF GALILEE, DAMASCUS,
EPHESUS, CORINTH,
THESSALONICA,
ATHENS, ROME, ETC.
REFERENCES,
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND TABULATED STATISTICS
EDITED AND
REVISED BY
REV. JAMES W.
LEE, D. D.,
Author of “The
Making of a Man,” “Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee,” etc.
GEOGRAPHICAL,
HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
JOSIAH L.
PORTER, D. D.,LL. D.,
Author of “Five Years
in Damascus,” “Hand-Book of Syria and Palestine,” “Pentateuch and the
Gospels,” and “Giant Cities
of Bashan,” and Contributor to “Encyclopedia Britannica.”
EXPOSITORY
NOTES, DISSERTATIONS AND SIDE LIGHTS
BY
HENRY COOKE,
D. D., LL. D.
REFERENCES,
REFLECTIONS, TABULATED STATISTICS AND COMMENTS
BY
JOHN BROWN,
D. D.,LL. D.,
Author of “Brown’s
Concordance of the Bible.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
PROF. ROBERT
E.M. BAIN,
Late President
American Outdoor Photographers’ Association.
SELECTIONS OF
PHOTOGRAPHS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF PLACES BY REV. JAMES W. LEE, D.D.
H. C. HUDGINS & CO.,
Kiser
Building,
ATLANTA, GA
(written
vertically in the margin along the upper left-hand edge of the page –
apparently the back of the previous, pre-printed page – underline’s are
the original author’s)
This is the 6th
day of Nov. 1902.
This is the most
lonesome day I ever saw
Emma
and
I
are
here
all
alone
(A large flourishing
calligraphic signature appears at the top of page that appears because of
its background to have faced the previous page as the right-hand page of a
spread.)
Miss Emma Carlisle
(A short passage
possibly in the same hand as the signature, with all words clearly legible
EXCEPT for the two words interpreted here as “cout” and “Per.
” {with underline added by the transcriber}. The letters in the
four-letter word interpreted as “cout” are clearly the letter “c” followed
by what appears to be the letter “o” or possibly “a.” Next appears to be
more of the letter “u” or could possibly be the letter “n” followed by
what is clearly the letter “t.” The word may be the word “cant” but
appears more clearly to be a phonetic attempt at the word “could.” In the
signature line, the word interpreted here as “Per” is clearly a
three-letter word and starts cleary with the letter “P” followed by what
looks to be the letter “e” rather than “o” or “a.” The word looks to end
in either the letter “r” or “n.”
This the
22 day of Dec. It is raining today
and oh how lonely every thing looks.
Nobody to come or rather nobody cout
come.
Per.
Corral Carlisle,
Louina,
Ala.
(written randomly around the page are at least five largely illegible
words or names, the most clear seem to be the following. One reading:)
I Love
(another appears to read)
L U Miss Jane
(written clearly, but apparently in a different hand from the first
entry)
Louina
(written in
apparently the same hand as the single, random clear word “Louina” on the
previous page)
Record of W. H. Culpepper
W. H. Culpepper was
born Oct the 17th 1813.
Sarah his wife was born
Feb 15th 1808.
Cathern his wife was
born Nov 5th 1811.
Mary his wife was born
June 8th 1842.
Children of W. H.
Culpepper..
Elias . D. Culpepper
was born Jan. 31st 1832.
Mary . B. Culpepper was
born March 17th 1833.
Francis . M. Culpepper
was born March 7th 1834.
John . M. Culpepper was
born Nov 13th 1835.
Ann . M. Culpepper was
born April 28th 1837.
William . A. Culpepper
was born Oct 10th 1839.
Emily. M. Culpepper was
born March 9. 1841
Louis Culpepper was
born June 27. 1842
Sarah J. Culpepper was
born Jan 17 1844
Martha L. Culpepper was
born Sept 12 1846
Florela C. Culpepper
was born Jun 22 1849
all the Children was Sarah his first wifes
theyre were no Children of the other two wifes
(written in the same hand as the Culpepper record)
Sarah . O. Elliott was
born Feb 5 . 1802
and Died Nov 19 . 1900. She was a
Sister of W. H. Culpepper . who Died
March 22nd 1909.
Ella Elliott died Jan
22nd 1900.
She was a Grand Daughter inlaw of
Sarah Elliott.
(written in a different hand from the Culpepper record, but
appearing to be the same hand as the passage under “Miss Emma Carlisle”
from the earlier page)
Family Record
John Greene was borned Nov the 2
1787
Nancy Greene was borned Oct the 10th
1789
Mountain Greene was borned Feb the 10
1810
Hartford Greene was borned Nov the 17
1811
Gilben Greene was borned Oct the 31
1813
Rebecka Greene was borned May the 29
1816
Alletha Greene was borned Feb the 10
1818
Elias & Melinda Greene was borned Jan the
1 1820
Daniel Greene was borned Nov the 17
1821
Franklin Greene was borned Jan the 23
1824
John (marked out)
Jonah Greene was borned Mar the 1 1826
Richard Greene was borned Oct the 30
1827
Martha Greene was borned Sept the 17
1829
Tabitha Greene was borned Oct the 30
1836
(written in the same hand as the Greene record)
Family Record
Mary Ann Kirk was borned Mar the 31
1822
Lucy Jane Kirk was borned June the 22
1824
Margaret Kirk was borned Oct the 3
1827
Stephan Kirk was borned Dec the 3
1829
Sarah Kirk was borned Feb the 25
1832
Parthena Kirk was borned Oct the 31
1834
Wm H Kirk was borned mar the 6 1838
Martha Frances Kirk was borned Feb the 3
1840
Susan Elizabeth Kirk was borned Jan the 22
1842
Benjaman franklin Kirk was borned Oct the
31 1844
Samuel Robert Kirk was borned Sept the 8
1850
This Transcription was made by and provided to
Culpepper Connections! by Capos Conley "Chip" Culpepper.
Last Revised:
02 Jan 2015
