Old Decker family bible
There is an old Decker family bible on Ebay with lots of family history. It is not my family or my book... Just thought it might be someone family...
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Nice large old family bible with lots of genealogy info if your family name is Decker
from New Jersey or upstate New
York.....pages of births, marriages, and deaths dating back to 1769 and going through
to 1890 or so. Other family names
mentioned are Schultz, Losey, Abbott, Burlingame, Sanborn, Pierce, Stilwell, Oscot,
...................The family seems to have
been from the Elmira, N.Y. area...also mentioned are Hyde Park and Newark Valley,
NY........some family members eventually
settled in Ridgewood, NJ.............also included are old newspaper clippings and
obits............ BOOK TITLE - The Holy Bible
- Old and New Testaments ......................Published in 1849 by The American Bible
Society ............OVERALL
CONDITION - pages generally very white and pliable with occasional age spots....all
well attached save for a few initial
pages......front cover detached, rear cover missing....................Leather Hardcover
928 pages.
Maurice D. Decker to Mary Abbott