The following records found on three sheets of very faded lined paper in the Robert and Minie Lee Carden Shepard Bible published in 1880 by B.F. Johnson and Company, Richmond, Virginia, and now in the possession of Mrs. Sadie Shepard Johnson, RR, Dublin, VA. Research indicates these records are correct. Death certificates, census records, marriage records and tombstone records where available show these to be accurate:
Marriages:
R.A. Carden and Melvina Journell was married February 10, 1856
R.A. Carden and Mary Bell Rinyans was married May 17, 1873
Sarah Ellen Carden and H.B. Carden was married October 5, 1877
Charles Waterson Carden and Victoria was married September 20, 1819
Robert Shepard and Minie Lee Carden was married December 22, 1877
Family Records:
Robert A. Carden was born September 25, 1835
Melvina Carden wife of R.A. Carden was born April 5, 1836
Sarah E. Carden was born November 30, 1856
Charles W. Carden was born May 3, 1858
Minnesota Carden was born March 18, 1860
John William Carden was born April 4, 1862
Minee Lee Carden was born April 27, 1864
James Robert Carden was born June 4, 1866
Fannie Emmaline Carden was born April 18, 1868
George Walter Carden was born April 22, 1870
Harvey Jeremiah Carden was born March 17, 1874
David Cloyd Carden was born October 20, 1875
Callie Ann Carden was born May 1, 1877
Mary Paris Carden was born October 13, 1878
Frank Ernest Carden was born August 16, 1880
Virginia Bell Carden was born July 9, 1882
Edward R. Carden was born February 8, 1884
Deaths:
Mary Bell Carden wife of R.A. Carden died December 15, 1889
Minnesota Carden daughter of R.A. Carden and Melvinah Carden died January
10, 1863
James R. Carden died June 9, 1891
David Cloyd Carden died August 26, 1915
R.A. Carden died April 4, 1915