Thank you again Marge for helping me understand and clear up my confusions.
I really do appreciate it.
You are most assuredly correct about the information being entered into that
book after it was published. I really should have thought about that!
My mother-in-laws Bible has information that I have entered, after her
death, and the Bible's publication date, of course, is earlier than these
dates.
I feel really silly now, but I was reading it the way it was posted here,
and there wasn't an explanation with it, so I assumed another typo.
LESSON to us all, don't 'ASSUME' anything!
Thank you so much, now I can add this nice bit of family history to my
files.
Theresa Engle
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From: campbell-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:campbell-bounces@rootsweb.com]
On Behalf Of margecam52
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 10:19 AM
To: campbell(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [Campbell] Esom/Isom Campbell
I think the birth dates were entered in to a purchased bible that was
published in 1888 by a company named Hitchcock (not a book of bible
records). These were entered after the fact, most likely by Sarah herself.
This could have been done to provide the proof needed for the application
(bible records were allowed as proof back then). Are the dates given
correct, maybe...Sarah may have had Esom give her dates, or copied from an
older bible of Esom's that didn't include her children.
Esom's age on the census could be in error, not that uncommon..someone may
have guessed at his age. 1836 would be my guess...the last two digits of
the bible/pension record transposed.
Pension records can be confusing in how they are written (grammar/spelling).
I have a RW pension for Ellis R. Campbell...it states that Nancy Clawson
Campbell had x amount of children in the years she resided in Dr. Melanctom
Freeman's house...was this another marriage, or was this the first of her
children with Ellis R? Hard to tell..but we know Ellis R lived in a home he
rented from Dr Freeman...so, probably the latter. This has caused some to
say that Nancy Clawson married Ellis R Campbell earlier than the recorded
date. It's just how you interpret the records.
Marge
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Theresa wrote:
Hi Marge,
Thanks for trying to help.
Yes, I believe he probably is the same man.
It's the pension information part that concerns me, there is a lot of
discrepancy in it.
The typo for the birth date of Esom is understandable.
But further on down, it lists the children from his second marriage to Sarah
V. Moore, who is the widow applying for the pension.
The children's' births' range from 1884 to 1895, and it states where the
names were found:
"These names copied from Hitchcock?s Analysis of the Holy
Bible published
N.Y. 1888 by John Parker Knox County Clerk".
If it was published in 1888, how could they know about the births after that
year?
Just wondering.
Hopefully the poster of the original may read this and clear everything up.
Theresa
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