McDonald family Bible, Jackson Co., Arkansas

Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn Johnson Mahan 
<cmahan@seark.net>.

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[The McDonald and Johnson families lived in Jackson County, Arkansas,
around Newport, Tupelo, Weldon and Shoffner.]

From a pictorial family Bible (published by the National Publishing
Company) presented to Louella Alice (Lula) Johnson McDonald by her 
brother, Edward Woodson Johnson, in August 1882.

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MEMORANDA

Bessie McDonald was born on the Sabbath between twelve and one o’clock.

Pearl was born on Wednesday about two o’clock.----  She died on 
Wednesday thirty minutes after seven am 1883.	


BIRTHS

Bessie Gertrude McDonald was born October 27th, 1878.  Died ----- 
Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 9, 1918.

Lula Pearl McDonald was born December 2-th, 1881.

Ernest McDonald was born January 16th, AD 1884.

Edgar Earl McDonald was born December 1st, AD 1885.

Henry Augustus McDonald born November 20th, 1888, died Nov. 27, 1918.

E. S. McDonald was born Aug. 4th, 1854.

Lula Johnson McDonald was born Jan. 17, 1857.

Attie Lou McDonald was born Jan. 19th, 1893.

Roselynn McDonald was born June 23rd, 1895.

Mary Katherine McDonald was born Jan. 4th, 1898.


MARRIAGES

Bessie Gertrude McDonald and Dr. W. F. Ball married Jan. 27, 1904. 
Methodist Church, Batesville, Ark. 4:30 pm Wednesday.

Ernest Franklin McDonald and Margaret Helen Duncan married March 12, 
1916. At home, 1601 W. 22nd St., Little Rock, Ark -----  aft. 3:30.

Roselynn McDonald and R. Grandison Kettering married April 25, 1917.  
Winfield Memorial Parsonage, 15th & Center St., Little Rock, Wednesday 4
pm.

Mary McDonald and --------------W. Cornish married April 
-------------------------- 9 o’clock.

Roselynn married Claude V. Holloway on Friday March 13, 1926 at Benton,
Arkansas.  They were married by Dr. Alonzo Monk.

Attye Lou McDonald and Ralph S. Kettering married Dec. 4th, 1923.

Grandilynn Kettering and Jack Joseph Davis married July 24th, 1938.

Rosemary Cornish and John W. Sneed were married October 20, 1940.


DEATHS

Lula Pearl McDonald departed this life August 1sr, 1883.

Our dear mother Lula Johnson McDonald departed this life May 18, 1917 at
nine thirty pm Friday.

Bess died Oct. 9, 1918 at 4:30.

Grandison died October 11, 1918 at 5 o’clock.

Gus died Nov. 27, 1918 in Colo. at night.

Papa died March 14, 1928 at 1 am.

Ralph S. Kettering and Attye Lou McDonald were married at Hot Springs, 
Ark on Dec. 4th, 1923.

Earl died June 6th, 1943 at 12:10 am.

Grandilynn Kettering Davis departed this life at 2am Dec. 6, 1946 at the
Baptist Hospital.

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