There is information on the pages from a
Carringer family Bible that are not available anywhere else. I decided that I should post it here just in case someone else is looking for information on this family or something bad happens to me and the contents of the
Genea-Cave.
I only have the family pages taken from the Bible, I don't have the rest of the Bible. I don't know the date of publication of this Bible, or when the family purchased it. I'm guessing it was purchased in the 1870's. I do recognize most of the handwriting on the pages.
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BIRTHS:D J
CarringerBorn Nov 4
th 1828 A.D.
Mercer Co. Pa.
Rebekah
SpanglerBorn April 2
th 1832 A.D.
Mercer Co. Pa.
Harvy E.
CarringerBorn May 6
th 1852 A.D.
Mercer Co. Pa.
Henry A.
CarringerBorn Nov 26
th 1853 A.D.
Mercer Co. Pa.
Effie E.
CarringerBorn Nov 24
th 1858 A.D.
Louisa Co. Iowa
[the above are in
Rebecca (
Spangler)
Carringer's hand]
Devier D.
CarringerBorn Aug. 19
th 1889 AD
9:30 A.M. Nat. City Calif.
Lyle L.
CarringerBorn Nov 2
nd 1891 AD
6.54 P.M. San Diego Calif.
[the two above are in Henry Austin
Carringer's hand]
Betty Virginia
Carringer (daughter of Lyle)
Born July 30
th 1919
Randall Jeffrey
Seaver (son of Betty C.
Seaver)
Born October 23rd 1943
Stanley Richmond
Seaver (son of Betty C.
Seaver)
Born September 4
th 1946.
[the three above were in the hand of Lyle L.
Carringer]
MARRIAGES:Oct. 16 by Rev.
McAdamsD.J.
Carringer Miss
Rebeccah SpanglerMercer Co. Pa. 1851 AD
[in
Rebecca (
Spangler)
Carringer's hand]
At
Wano Kan Sept 11
th 1887
By Rev Emanuel Richard
Henry A.
Carringerto Della A. Smith
at Twelve
Oclock[in Henry Austin
Carringer's hand]
San Diego- California June 19
th 1918
By Rev. H.E.
Crabtree - Central Christian Church
Lyle Lawrence
CarringerTo
Emily Kemp
AubleAt 6 P.M.
[in Lyle L.
Carringer's hand]
San Diego Calif. July 12
th 1942
By Rev. Father Stephens - All Saints Episcopal Church
Frederick Walton
SeaverTo
Betty Virginia
Carringer[in hand of Lyle L.
Carringer]
DEATHS:Caribou [CO] June 8 1874
Effie E.
Carringer Daughter
of DJ & R
Carringerage 15 years 6 months and 12 days
[in the hand of
Rebecca (
Spangler)
Carringer]
National City Calif
May 10
th 1890
Devier D. son of H A &
Della A.
Carringer aged
8 months & 20 days
[in hand of Henry Austin
Carringer]
San Diego Calif
Rebecca CarringerAged 69 yrs 8 Months & 11 days
died Dec 13 1901 - She was Daughter
of Daniel & Elisabeth
Spangler[in hand of Henry Austin
Carringer?]
San Diego Jan 20 1902
David Jackson
Carringeraged 73 yr - 2 - 17
da[in hand of Della (Smith)
Carringer]
San Diego Calif. Nov. 30, 1946
Henry Austin
Carringer, 93 yrs, 4 days, 9:30 AM
[in hand of Lyle L.
Carringer]
[Several obituaries are pasted on an untitled page opposite the Deaths page:]
"DIED
"At Caribou, June 8, 1874, Effie E.
Carringer, daughter of D.J. and
Rebecca Carringer, aged fifteen years, six months and twelve days.
"The deeply afflicted family have the sincerest sympathy of all the community. The form of their loved one fades from earth.
"But a fair maiden in the Father's mansion,
Clothed with celestial grace,
And beautiful with all the soul's expansion
Shall they behold her face."
"
CARRINGER -- In
Sheakleyville, Mercer county, April 7
th, 1871, of consumption, Eva E., daughter of John
Carringer, aged 19 years, 7 months and 22 days.
"Yes, Eva dear, when loved ones stood around thy chair,
In anguish each to weep,
Then calmly bade them all adieu,
And gently fall asleep."
"
KELSO -- In
Greenville, Pa., Wednesday, Dec. 20
th, 1871, Mrs. M.J.
Kelso, sister of Mrs. A.L. Power, of this place, aged 31 years and 9 months."
"POWER -- In
Summerhill township, Dec. 20
th, 1871, of apoplexy of the lungs, Theodore M. Power, in the 60
th year of his age."
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I doubt that anyone but my brothers and I (and our offspring) are descended from David Jackson and
Rebecca (
Spangler)
Carringer, since:
* Henry Austin
Carringer's siblings were Harvey Edgar
Carringer, who never married, and Effie E.
Carringer, who died unmarried at age 15.
* Henry Austin and Della (Smith)
Carringer had two sons -
Devier D. who died as an infant, and Lyle L.
Carringer.
* Lyle L.
Carringer married Emily Kemp
Auble and they had one child, Betty Virginia
Carringer.
* Betty
Carringer married Frederick W.
Seaver and had three sons -- Randall, Stanley and Scott.
Obviously, these are all original source records, and most of them are primary information and direct evidence of vital events in the life of this family. Note - only the birth of DJ Carringer and
Rebecca Spangler are secondary information.
After my visit to the cemeteries today, and pondering the vagaries of life, I am sensitive to the fact that family records like these should not be held in secret. They should be published wherever or whenever they can be, hence putting it on this blog. I doubt that the deathless prose on this blog will last forever in genealogy cyberspace, and therefore I have included this information in my databases and have passed it on to my brothers and my children in the form of genealogy reports given freely at Christmas. I hope to publish books that include this information and provide them to local libraries and regional genealogy libraries for documentation.
What about you? Any real good family information that you have hidden in your files? Have you passed it to your siblings and children? When will you publish it?