Burton Franklin Carroll Family Bible

 

Introduction

This Bible record is found in the family bible of Burton Franklin Carroll and D. Janie Garrett Baxter. The Bible belongs to and is in the possession of Calvin Franklin Carroll, the Grandson of Burton Franklin Carroll and son of Franklin Garrett Carroll and his first wife Lorine Harrell Carroll. This is a complete Bible and although the book is very fragile it is in relatively good shape and has been well cared for.

Most of the handwriting seems to be the same and probably belonged to Janie Carroll. The births appear to have been written at the same time. It does look like someone has corrected dates but these corrections appear to be in the same handwriting as the original entries but with a different pen. The entries of deaths appear to be written by the same person as the births, however, the handwriting changes with the entries of 1935 and later.

[Translated on Sept. 5, 1999 by Shellie Carroll, 15140 40th St., Live Oak, FL 32060. Anyone wishing additional information may contact me at shellie@alltel.net]

[Translators comments are in brackets [ ]. All other writings are as shown in Bible, with spelling, capitalization, etc. copied exactly as it appears without correction.]

[The title page reads:]

THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH FORMER TRANSLATI0NS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED SELF-PRONOUNCING EDITION

[There is not a page with a date of publication or publisher name. There is probably a page missing.]

 

[On single page with title:]

Certificate of Marriage

B. F. Carroll & J. G. Baxter were married on October. the 23, 1884 in Suwanney County florida by _____Shepard. Witnessed W. T. Carroll and Jain Carroll

 

[On single page with title:]

BIRTHS

B. F. Carroll was Borned Dec 16th 1863

D. J. G. Carroll was Borned Aug 29th 1866

R. V. Carroll was Borned Aug 4th 1885

D. G. Carroll was Borned July 20th 1887

Lou ellen Carroll was Borned March 31th 1889

Salley Carroll was Borned Aug 31th 1891

Tomey H. Carroll was Borned Jun 16th 1894

George Carroll was Borned May 6th 1900

 

[On single page with title:]

MARRIAGES

Rosy Carroll was Borned Oct 10th, 1897

B. F. G. Carroll was Borned Sept 25th 1902

[These births were continued from the birth page over onto the marriage page as the birth page was full. The handwriting is the same for all the births on both pages and it appears that all these records were entered at the same time. There are no marriages recorded on the marriage page, only the two births]

[On single page with title:]

DEATHS

R. V. Carroll died Aug 23 1885

Lou Ellen Carroll died Apr 18 1889

Salley Ratliff died May 5 1919

____ Ratliff died May 29 1919

James Melton Ratliff died June 27 1919

Rosa Ramsey died June the 1 1920

George Carroll died Dec 3, 1935

Janie Carroll died Nov 22 1938

B. F. Carroll died Feb 13 1938

T. H. Carroll died Aug 12 1954

F. G. Carroll died Feb 18, 1976

[The first two deaths are recorded in the same hand as the births and appear to have been recorded at the same time as the birth records were recorded. Other deaths are recorded in at different times with different hands. Some of these dates do not match those found on the tombstone. However, most of the names and dates in the Bible are easily read]