These are pages from the Bible of James A Lankford. James married George (Georgia, Georgie) Duffel, daughter of Joseph A Duffel and Mary Ann Summers. If you remember, Joseph A Duffel is the brother of my 4th great-grandmother Emily Jane Duffel, and Mary Ann Summers is the sister of my 4th great-grandfather Basil Pinkney Summers. My 3rd great-grandmother Isabella Lankford married my 3rd great-grandfather Archibald Cathey, but I haven’t yet figured out how she is related to James A Lankford (if at all, but it was the same county so I am assuming they are related…perhaps not!).
I have transcribed the pages exactly as they are and I have made notes for some of the entries. If anything is transcribed wrong, please let me know! Enjoy!
Page One
James a Lankford (illegible)
Page Two
Page Three-Births
James A. Lankford
was born April the 12th
1854
Georgie M. Lankford
was born August the 16th
1858
Joe P. Lankford
was born November
the 27th 1881
Ros(illegible) Blanche Lankford
was born October the 27th
1883
(note: I can see on some Ancestry trees that her first name is Rosa, but it doesn’t look like that on this page)
Walter Bertram Lankford
was born November the 27th
1885
Lucy Belle Lankford
was born Nov the 30th
1887
Page Four-Births
Leslie Lloyd Lankford
was born September
the 10th 1891
(note: not sure if it is Leslie, but that’s what I am seeing)
Francis Earl (Lansford)
was born May 25th 1893
(note: it is Lankford, but it sure doesn’t look like it!)
W.W. Weaver was
born March 2, 1880
Susie Willard Weaver
was born Jan. 18th
1908
Rosie Aleen Weaver
was born Oct. 21
1915
(note: I think it says Aleen)
Sallie Sue Lambert Apr 20-35
Loraine Catherine Whalen
September 30th, 1954
Page Five-Marriages
J.A. Lankford and
Georgie M. Duffel was
married Jan. the 5th
1881
W.W. Weaver and
Lucy Belle Lankford
was married Feb. 3
1907
Ewing Patterson and
Susie W. Weaver was
married Oct. 7th 1922
Rose Aleen Weaver &
Douglas Leo Lambert
Married Oct. 30th, 1933
(note: again, I think it says Aleen)
Dolly Sue Lambert &
Thomas James Whalen
June 19, 1953
Page Six-Deaths
Mary A Duffel mother of
Georgie Lankford died December
the 27th 1881
Joseph A Duffel father of
Georgie M. Lankford died
January the 28th 1884
Georgie M. Lankford
Died July 25, 1894
James a Lankford
Died Oct 13-1916
Blanche Jones
Died aug 27, 1926
Page Seven
