FIRST PAGE:
Emalines first child William was born May the 22nd 1848
Marthas child Victoria was born July the 20th 18?8 (1848)
Sallys child Isabella was born June the 30th 1848
Susans child Ked/Kad was born August the 7th 1849
Emalines second child Thomas was born October 25th 1850
Emalines third child Margaret was born December the 30th 1851
Emalines fourth child Frances was born February 15, 1854
On the next page, written in ink, is the name "John Kestersons". The previous entries are written in the same ink. Later on this same page is written, "Walter A Kestersons Book Feb 7 1869. This entry is written in pencil. Walter was Johns "grandson" who was 12 years old at this time and its assumed this is the date when Walter came into possession of the Bible. No one in the family has been able to figure out who the previous entries were. The following entries begin the "Family Information" section of the bible.
PAGE ONE MARRIAGES:
John Kesterson & Catherine Y. Pool was married February the 10th 1824
John Kesterson & Ann H. Hardaway was married May the 13 1847
Mary Agnes Kesterson daughter of J. & C. Kesterson was united in marriage to B. Abernathy May the 30th 1849
PAGE TWO BIRTHS:
John Kesterson was born October the 16th in the year of our Lord 1797
Catherine Y Pool was (then this is crossed through with one line in same ink)
Catherine Y. Kesterson was born April the 25th in the year of our Lord 1802
Frances Ann Margaret Kesterson was born November the 13th on Sunday morning half past 1 oclock in the morning in the year of our Lord 1825
William Madden Kesterson was born July the 7th on Monday in the year of our Lord 1828 (This is my great great grandfather)
Mary Agnes Kesterson was born August the 12th Thursday morning at 6 oclock in the year of our Lord 1830
Minerva Ann Mary Kesterson was born December the 30th on Sunday morning half past 8 oclock in the year of our Lord 1832
Emily Elizabeth Kesterson was born August the 2nd on Sunday morning half ten oclock in the year of our Lord 1835
John Henry Kesterson was born January the 17th Wednesday forty five minutes of one oclock in the year of our Lord 1838
Rebecca Catherine Kesterson was born Friday September the 11th at twelve oclock P.M. In the year of our Lord 1840
PAGE THREE BIRTHS:
John S. Poole was born April the 2nd in the year of our Lord 1821
PAGE FOUR DEATHS:
Minerva Ann May departed this life September the 10th 1834 at five oclock in the morning aged 1 year eight months and eleven days
Frances Ann Margaret Kesterson departed this life November the 14 1839 thirty five minutes after seven oclock in the evening age fourteen years and forty two hours and five minutes
John Henry Kesterson departed this life January the 11th 1841 thirty five minutes after two oclock in the morning aged one year eleven months and twenty five days
Rebecca Catherine Kesterson departed this life July the 18th 1841 age ten months and seven days on Sunday night
My dear wife Catherine Y. Kesterson departed this life Thursday fourty five minutes after eight oclock in the morning October 20th 1842 in the fourty first year of her age
William Manden Kesterson departed this life October the 22nd 1860 in the 32nd ye (a line is crossed through 32nd ye) He lived 32 years and 15 days was born on Monday and died on Monday
