Amanuensis Monday ~ Gorin Family Bible

An Amanuensis is a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. Family bible records are unique items, and following is a bible which contains information that links me to a Revolutionary War ancestor (that I used in my application to the DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution). Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin – some we never met – others we see a time in their life before we knew them.

Inside front cover, left

The bible was published in Philadelphia by J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856.


Pasted inside the front cover are obituaries of my third great-grandparents, Thomas Jefferson Gorin

Inside front cover, right

and his wife, Mary Ann (Bowman) Gorin.

One page into the bible is pasted a funeral notice for Thomas J. Gorin.

Died

In Louisville, at 4 A.M., on Thursday, January 11^th, 1883,

Thomas J. Gorin.

The funeral services, conducted by Rev. J.J. Hynes, will take place at the Methodist church, in

Glasgow, to-day, at eleven o’clock A.M., immediately after which the remains will be buried at the

family graveyard, near the old family residence.

The friends of the family are invited to attend.

Saturday, Jan. 13, 1883.

On the following page is handwritten:

Miss Florence Gorin

Presented by her

Pa T.J. Gorin.




In the middle section of the bible is the section for marriages, births and deaths.

Marriages page

Marriages.

Tho. J. Gorin + Mary Ann Bowman were married – December 27^th 1831

D.M. Ashby + Mary Elizabeth Gorin were married February 11^th 1857

Henry C. Murrell + Emma Gorin were married 3^rd Nov 1858

James E. Gorin + Mary Rogers were married 15^th January 1860

John A. Lee + my daughter Florence Gorin, the Darling of my heart, were married 19^th October 1880, Tuesday at 2 Ock P.M. Calvary Church, Louisville, Ky; by Reverend Mr. Minnigerode and may the God of Peace go with them.

Left-hand Births page

Births.

Tho. J. Gorin was Born Anno domines 1808 27^th January

Mary A. Bowman was Born March 2^nd 1814

Mary E. Gorin was Born 28^th June 1833

James Edward Gorin was Born August 29^th 1835

Laura Gorin was Born August 8^th 1837

Emma Gorin was Born 24^th March 1839

Ellen Gorin was Born 29^th March 1844

Thos. Gorin was Born March 4^th 1847

Florence Gorin was Born Nov. 8^th 1851

Right-hand Births page

Births.
Granville Bowman was born 21st March 1786

Died August 11^th Augt 1841

Polly Bowman his wife was born 30^th Augt 1793

Died March 1850

Granville Bowman + Polly Walthall, were married 16^th May 1809

Deaths

Deaths.

Thos. Gorin Died 3^rd Nov. 1847

Laura Gorin Died 30^th day Sept. 1853

Ellen Gorin Died 13^th August 1858. Friday night between 10 + 11 Ock.

John Gorin Father of Tho. J. Gorin – Died 6^th August 1837.

Born May 1763

Elizabeth Gorin his wife Died March 1824. 

My descent from John Gorin (Revolutionary War Colonel) and Elizabeth Franklin > Thomas Jefferson Gorin > Mary Elizabeth Gorin > Mary Bowman Ashby > Elizabeth Adsit > Charles McAlpin Pyle, Jr. > me.

My descent from Granville Bowman and Polly Walthall > Mary Ann Bowman > Mary Elizabeth Gorin > Mary Bowman Ashby > Elizabeth Adsit > Charles McAlpin Pyle, Jr. > me.

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