Bible: C W Hammaker Family 1846
C W Hamaker Bible, Blue Ridge, VA 1846
Information taken from a Family Bible owned by Reverend John Livingston of Little Rock, Arkansas. The volume originally belonged to the pastor's maternal great-great-grandfather C.W. Hamaker who lived in Blue Ridge, Virginia. It came into the possession of Reverend Livingston in 1947 after the death of a great-uncle B. W. Hamaker, merchant, in New Edinburg, Arkansas. (Records sent to Mrs. J. E. Schwartz in 1959.)
The records in the Bible do not agree.
Huldey Render was born Feb. 23, 1873 (written over in pencil in 1875)
Barney Washington Hamaker was born on Sept. 27, 1875 (written over in pencil in
1876)
Huldey Render Hamaker was born Dec. 25, 1875 (written in pencil)
Minnie Atkins was born Sept. 6, 1894 (written in pencil)
Huldey R. Hamaker was born Dec. 25, 1873 (written over in pencil in 1876)
Walter Green Hamaker, Born Nov. 4, 1876 (written over in pencil in 1877)
Mug Eviline was born Sept. 17, 1878
(In pencil below this) Muggy Evline Hamaker was born Sept.17, 1879
John Hamaker lived 69, 6, 15. He died on August 15, 1881
Lee Hamaker wife died on the 23 day of Sept. 1886
The following have been written in ink and crossed out in pencil"
Barnie Hamaker was born Sept. 27, 1875
Huldie R. Hamaker was born Dec. 25, 1875
Walter Hamaker was born November 4, 1876
Muggy Eviline was born Sept. 17, 1878
John Hamaker was born April 18, 1870 (1810)
Velvaridia Evaline Hamaker was born April 6, 1817
Ephraim Hamaker was born November 13, 1835
Joseph Hamaker was born June 5, 1837
Artamicy Hamaker was born August 6, 1839
Marth Hamaker was born August 28, 1841
Mary Jane Hamaker was born March 12, 1844
John Hamaker was born February 17, (16), 1846
Aljir (?) Hamaker was born March 20, 1848
Cvia (?) Hamaker was born March 25, 1850
Matthew was born July 9, 1852
Mervyce Hamaker was born 1855, March 23
John Hamaker and Vervaridia Parsing (Parsons) was married December 28, 1834
In pencil it looks like Morgan horse foled, April 28, 1879
In pencil looks like
Huldie Hamaker married in the year 1892
(Or (Huldie) Hamaker was in the War of 1812
On the title page of the Bible it says:
To J. M. Hamaker, Blue Ridge, Va. A.D. 1775
The Bible was published by the American and Foreign Bible Society by the Bible Association of Friends of America 1846.