Robert Simmons Family Bible Records, Washington Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Edie McKinney Talley
Transcribed by Ken Baughman

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Source:  Bible Records:  Copied and compiled by: Zuma F. Magee,
Franklinton, LA., and Thelma S. Bateman, Baton Rouge, LA.  1964, page 38.


Simmons Bible

Original 0wner:  Robert Simmons - Plains Community, East Baton Rouge
                 Parish, LA.
Present Owner:   Mrs. Doyle L. Bateman, (Daughter), Baton Rouge, La.
Copied:  March 7, 1964 by Mrs. Doyle L. Bateman, Baton Rouge, La.

HOLY BIBLE - a very small book about 4 x 5 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches, containing
the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT - translated out Of the 0riginal Tongues
compared and revised.  Published in 1890 by the American Bible
Society, New York, instituted in the year MDCCCXVI.

On the Fly Leaf in the front is the following:

"Presented to Robert Simmons for perfectly reciting the "Shorter
Catechism", by his S.S. Teacher, Mollie L. Fauts."
The above was written and signed by Miss Mollie L. Fauts. There is no
date mentioned in the above presentation, but the "Diploma" awarded to
him by the Editors of the Christian Observer, through the Plains
Presbyterian church, is dated Louisville, Ky., January 23, 1892.
Certified to and signed by the Pastor of the Church, A. Z. Young.

There are no Family Pecord Sheets in this small Bible, but on the
Fly Sheets in the back we find the fol1owing records:

Robert P. Simmons born Nov. 26, 1876
Eliza Boze Simmons born July 27, 1831
Married Nov. 26, 1902.

Thelma Ann Simmons born Nov. 23, 1906.
James Sully Simmons born August 30, 1912 - Friday Morning at 20 minutes 
   Friday Morning at 20 minutes