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Marks Family Bible

 Collection
Identifier: MGC-1196

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the family Bible for Nellie Oleta Griffitts and Abner Jefferson Marks. The cover and some of the pages of the Bible are missing, but the family records sheets within the Bible are complete. This Bible contains some birth, death and marriage information for parents and grandparents as well as children. Dates were recorded in the family bible as late as the 1950. The names and dates were written at different times and in various handwriting.

Dates

  • Creation: 1849 - 1950

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Nellie Aleta Griffitts, the daughter of Perry Griffitts and Jessie Fender was born on October 22, 1908 in Brighton, Missouri. She married Abner Jefferson Marks in Springfield, Missouri on December 11, 1926. She later married Joseph Allison Loven. Nellie died on April 12, 1989 and is buried in Brighton Cemetery.

Full Extent

1 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Family record sheets
Bible
Title
Marks Family Bible
Subtitle
A finding aid from the Midwest Genealogy Center
Author
Jolene Clark
Date
2018
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Midwest Genealogy Center Repository

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