The Family Bible of David and Lettie Bowden Blakey

This Bible is held by Frankie Horne Craig, a great-granddaughter of David and Lettie Bowden Blakey. The first page reads:

     This certifies that the rite of Holy Matrimony was 
     celebrated between David Blakey, the son of W. Blakey,
     and L. A. Bowden, daught. of W. Bowden on...December the 
     28th 1852.

BIRTHS

Page 1:

• Alonzo Blakey January 30, 1854
• Sylvania Blakey September 19, 1855
• William Bennet Blakey February 15, 1858
• Henry Clayton Blakey March 14, 1860
• David Bryant Blakey May 22, 1862
• Asa Blakey December 18, 1864
• Augustus Maddux Blakey November 2, 1868
• Sarah Jane Blakey February 16, 1872
• Annie Beatrice Blakey September 11, 1874
• Louisa Blakey August 5, 1876

Page 2:

• Hubert Ellison Horne November 12, 1890
• Gladys Merle Horne May 4, 1892
• Thelma Annie Horne January 7, 1895
• Cornelia M. Horne November 18, 1896
• Gussie Mai Horne June 8, 1898
• Wylie Eugene Horne July 11, 1900
• Lawrence Leroy Horne May 25, 1903
• Walter Bennette Horne September 7, 1908
• Sarah Avis Horne Tuesday, March 11, 1913

Included on the marriages page:

• Ruby C. Blakey December 17, 1894

MARRIAGES

• Sarah Jane Blakey to Wyle Horne January 29, 1890
• Sarah A. Horne to Robert Lee Wylie June 6, 1931
• Annie Beatrice Blakey to Rufus Myers January 11, 1893
• Gussie Maie Horne to Stephen Herring June 8, 1921
• Lawrence Horne to Ruby Nell Hattaway June 2, 1928
• Thelma Annie Horne to Walter Krosp February 14, 1912
• Cornelia M. Horne to Thomas Franklin Herring December 19, 1916
• Hubert E. Horne to Laura Herring December 8, 1917
• Eugene Horne to Bess Mae Roth December 25, 1926
• W. Bennett Horne to Ruth E. Moose (the date is torn off)

DEATHS

• Alonzo Blakey August 13, 1862, age 8 years, 6 months, 13 days
• Asa Blakey May 20, 1865, age 5 months and 6 days
• David B. Blakey May 22, 1865 age 3 years
• Henry C. Blakey June 16, 1865, age 5 years, 3 months, 2 days
• Louisa Blakey August 16, 1870, age 11 days
• Augustus M. Blakey September 12, 1895, age 26 years, 10 months, 10 days
• David Blakey July 2, 1908, age 78 years, 1 day
• Gladys Merle Horne September 28, 1911, age 19 years, 4 months, 24 days
• L. A. Blakey May 16, 1913, age 77 years, 2 m., 10 days