Preston M. West Family Bible

submitted by Amy Maceo Wooten

Inscription on the outer cover of this large leather bound and brass buckled Bible:

  Our Beloved Superintendent

P. M. WEST

Kosciusko, Miss., Dec. 25^th, 1869

  MARRIAGES

  All of the below is in the same hand and pen:

James West and Mourning Howard married Oct 1^st 1807.

Preston M. son of the above couple and Martha A. Hail were married Dec 9, 1830.

  Wilson Edwards Hooper and Angeline H. C. West were married Mar. 17, 1853

  James D. West & Mary Robertson Waddel(*) were married July 14, 1861.

  Edgar A. West & Jane Eleanor Irving were married Feb. 18, 1868.

  Martin Young Thompson & Mrs. Angeline Hooper were married Aug 16, 1871.

  (*) in a different hand and at the bottom of the page is written Mary (Mollie ) Waddel – born – 1838.

  In a different hand and at the bottom of the page

  William Green Allen was born Mar. 4, 1871. 

  Belle Thompson Allen was born April 19, 1873.

  Addie Lina Allen was born Dec. 4, 1897.

  Clennie Belle Allen was born May 28, 1900.

  William Fred Allen was born Jan 2, 1903.

  Robert Neely Allen was born July 29, 1905.

  Evelyn Allen was born Feb. 27, 1907.

  Mary Julia Allen was born June 18, 1909.

  Margaret Virginia Allen was born Nov. 7, 1911.

  Also on the next page is written in a different hand, William Green Allen and Clennie Belle Thomson were married Dec. 4, 1895.

  BIRTHS

  All of the below is in the same hand and pen:

James West was born Aug 27, 1772.

  Mourning West was born July 15, 1784.

  Preston Milton West son of James & Mourning West was born May 28, 1808.

  Maleta daughter of James & Mourning West was born Mar 26, 1812.

  Tilmon Howard son of James & Mourning West was born May 8, 1810 and died Oct 3, 1884.

  (on the side of the page margin in the same pen and hand is written, “Tilmon is next in age to Preston”.)

  Malinda daughter of James & Mourning West was born Aug 1^st, 1814.

  Silas Mercer son of James & Mourning West was born Jan. 27, 1817.

  Elias P. son of James & Mourning West was born Mar. 14, 1819.

  William son of James & Mourning West was born June 19, 1821.

  Mary daughter of James & Mourning West was born Sep 3, 1823.

  James Leonard son of James & Mourning West was born Sep 3, 1826

  Martha Ann daughter of Durham & Margaret Clendenon Hail & wife of P. M. West was born Dec 22, 1815.

  Angeline Howard Clendenon daughter of P.M. & M.A. West was born Sep 20, 1835.

  James Durham son of P. M. & M. A. West was born June 1^st, 1838.

  Olivia Cordelia daughter of P. M. & M. A. West was born May 27, 1840.

  Edgar Alexander son of P. M. & M. A. West was born April 9, 1843.

  Martha Adelia daughter of P. M. & M. A. West was born Feb 25, 1846.

  DEATHS

  Olivia Cordelia daughter of P.M. & M. A. West died Feb. 2^nd, 1845.

  Martha Adelia daughter of P. M. & M. A. West died Dec. 29^th, 1860.

  Martha Ann wife of P. M. West died June 10, 1880.

  Preston Milton West husband of M. A. West died June 19, 1888.

  In different hand and pen:

  Angeline Howard Clendennon daughter of P M. & M. A. West died Sept. 13, 1904.

  Martin Young Thompson died July 24, 1906.

  Clennie Belle Allen died Nov. 21, 1903, 3yrs & 6 mos.

  Robert Neely Allen died May 4, 1906 – nine months and 5 days.

  William Green Allen died Mar. 29, 1912 – 41 years & 25 days.

  Clennie Belle Thompson Allen died December 13, 1959.

  Mary (Mollie) West died Ap. 22, 1919, 81 yrs old.

  Bible is in the care of Amy Maceo Wooten, Dallas, TX.

February 2003