Cummings Family Bible

Submitted by Dorothy M.Boyer

These were given to her by Mrs. Ernest McGuire

Masonic bible originally owned by William Otto Franklin Cummings and his wife Mary Eugenia Coe Heyward Cummings. Both original owners dropped the first of their given names and are recorded in this Bible by the names they used during their adult life.

The Holy Bible Alphabetical Indexed Bible containing the Old and New Testaments (Authorized or King James Version) translated out of the original tongues and with all former translations diligently compared and revised to which are added Many Unique Features of the Bible   ...Red Letter Edition. Published by The John A. Hertel Co., Chicago.

Family Register

Grandparents

Grandfather (father's side) Christian Isaiah Cummings May 19, 1859 - June 28, 1917
Grandmother (father's side) Lillie Leaphart Cummings May 15, 1865 - Mar. 27, 1952
Grandfather (mother's side) Thomas Rhett Heyward Jul 1, 1854 - Nov. 18, 1932
Grandmother (mother's side) Eugenia Coe Heyward Jan. 19, 1856 - Nov. 5, 1925

Parents

Married June 9, 1910, Beaufort, S.C.

Husband: Otto Franklyn Cummings born Aug. 13, 1890, Greenwood, S.C., died Feb. 19, 1951, Gainesville, FL.

Wife: Eugenia Coe Heyward born March 4, 1890, Bluffton, S.C.

Children

Otto Franklyn Cummings, Jr., born Jan. 31, 1912, Beaufort, S.C., died Jul 5, 1975, Camden, Ark. Married 10/27/46, Hawthorne, Fla. Alyce Sherouse

Theodore Hay Cummings, born Jul, 30, 1913, Beaufort, S.C., married 1/14/34, McClenny, Fla. Eleanor Bryant

Eugene Heyward Cummings, born Feb. 26, 1919, Beaufort, S.C., married 6/4/54, Archer, Fla. Etta Bowen of Morrell, Maine

Grandchildren

Sharon Francis Cummings, daughter of Otto Cummings & Alice Sherouse, born (living?), Camden, Ark.

Elizabeth Kay Cummings, daughter of Otto F. Cummings and Alice Sherouse, born (living?), Camden, Ark.

Eleanor Eugenia Cummings, daughter of Theodore Hay Cummings & Eleanor Bryant, born (living?), Georgetown, S.C., married 7 Aug. 1964, Gainesville, Fla. Joseph Lamar Woodard

Barbara Carolyn Cummings, daughter of Theodore Hay Cummings & Eleanor Bryant, born (living?), Georgetown, S.C., married 17 July 1965, Gainesville, Fla. to Craig Sims Kitchens.