Re: Edwin McCalla 1807/Juliana Bird 1809:Pennsylvania
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Edwin McCalla 1807/Juliana Bird 1809:Pennsylvania
Virginia Presti 3/08/11
for Virginia PRESTI :recently i decided to expand my online-tree where I'dtry adding to info about Edwin McCALLA Senior - a cousin of John McCALLA - my line from Capt. William McCALLA Senior .... your March 2011 msg to Patrick Robinson caught my eye !
I have cited the 1923 edtn. of a biographical encyclopedia & a bible labeled as the McCALLA-MEHL bible in the explanationsin the tree for Edwin SENIOR.
Jenkintown Pennsylvania'sOld York Rd. Hist.Soc. -- where i hang my hat on MOST Wednesdays 11am-2:45pm ET --owns a copy of the 1923 publication ( as do I .. picked off ABEbooks two years ago ... ).This 1923 edtn.mentions John McCOWN....as well as details about Edwin SENIOR.. subsequent to the 1837 death of "Junior" apparently another ( a second "Edwin JUNIOR") was born about 1840-43 - do you have any info on that second use of the nameby Edwin SENIOR & Julia Sybert BIRD ????....
The bible made its way into the MEHL familyvia Wm. JUNIOR's dau. Harriet ....itmentionsJohn L.DAVISand a few of the dscndants ofJulia Sybert BIRD McCALLA ....
Do you have any copies of letterssent within the McCALLA descendants about funding a gift to Abington Presbyterian Churchwhen the church was rebuilt after the 1895 fire( in memory of Capt. William McCALLA a longtime elder ) ?A picture of a portion of the gift is now on Ancestry .. a communion table.Copies of some of the records of APC are held at OYRHS - their archivist is also President of OYRHS ....
I am sending this Tues.eveng from Ft.Washington PENNA. 19034 and will probably return to Longport NJ ( zipCode = 08403 ) near Atlantic City after being @ OYRHS Wednesday ....
The bible was printed in Scotland in 1793 & acquired by the Jenkintown innkeeper - Wm. McCALLA JUNIOR in 1795.
It actually included the precise time-of-day for the birth of Edwin in 1807 ....
ted08403 -at- gMailLongport NJ 08403 .... T.H.McCalla ( b.1939 ) .... former resident in 94123 & 94133 .... returning east in 2007....
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Re: Edwin McCalla 1807/Juliana Bird 1809:Pennsylvania
Virginia Presti 5/27/11