Howard / Carlile / Blunt / Bolton-Smith / Elliot Family Bible. The Holy Bible.  (With extensive genealogical notes)

Howard / Carlile / Blunt / Bolton-Smith / Elliot Family

Philadelphia : McCarty & Davis, 1830

[Howard / Carlile / Blunt / Bolton-Smith / Elliot Family Bible - Portsmouth, NH - Memphis, TN, with continuous family ownership 1830-2001] Thick quarto; 28 cm.  Bound in contemporary full leather. Gilt stamping.  Leather worn, with front board detached, rear hinge cracked, with board nearly detached. Staining, spotting throughout. 1076 pages : plates and maps. Some tears to the first family record page.  

This bible shows American migration from New England to the West in the early 19th century.  The Howard family Bible first records the birth of Charles Howard, in Conway, Massachusetts (1802-1843).  The family moved to Texas circa 1839 (the Family Record page is meticulously detailed, including the death of an infant 2 week old son in Matagorda, TX).  Charles died in New Orleans in 1843 from yellow fever.  Another daughter, Leonora Howard was born in 1840.  At the front is a handsome presentation inscription to Ann W.B. Howard from her Aunt Sophia Watson, Portsmouth, NH dated 1832.  [Additional genealogical notes: Ann Howard was the mother of Louisa Howard whose family moved to Texas.  Louisa married Francis Yates Carlile 1812–1866 of Providence, RI in Tennessee]. Later presentation inscriptions to Frank Howard Carlile from his mother, Louisa Howard Carlile, Memphis, 1893 (Anna Louise Howard Carlile, 1829-(1831, her cemetery stone is wrong, her aunt says she was born in 1829)–1911; Francis H. Carlile, 1857–1928, lived at 259 Popular St, Memphis, TN and attended Cornell in 1870-2).  Deathbed inscription from Frank Howard Carlile to his nephew Carlile Bolton-Smith, Memphis, 1911. Carlile Bolton-Smith (1902-2001), was born in Memphis and died in Georgetown, D.C. Carlile served in various New Deal agencies in the Roosevelt administration, in the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a lawyer in Georgetown for 42 years.  Additional records for the related Blunt, Bolton-Smith and Elliot families of New Hampshire, Memphis, Indiana, etc.  Additional genealogical handwritten page on the Carlile family of Rhode Island, beginning with Thomas Carlile, born 1754.

Full title: "The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha: translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of His Majesty King James I of England. With marginal notes and references. To which are added an index ; an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments with their significations ; tables of Scripture weights, measures, and coins. Embellished with maps and historical engravings."