Monday, February 22, 2016

Mary E. Cokonougher Family Bible 1820-1904


Mary E. (Wisecup) Cokonougher began recording births, marriages, and deaths in a family Bible after she married Zackariah Cokonougher in 1873.  Like most other wives and husbands of the times, she recorded the historical data in the Family Record section of the Bible.
       These photos are of the actual Bible.  Mary was my great-grandmother, through my father, Howard William Cokonougher, and my grandfather, John Henry Cokonougher Sr. 
     When I last saw the Bible in 1977, it was in South Salem, Ohio and in the possession of Mary's daughter, Anna Cokonougher Schmidt, who died in 1978.  I lost track of the Bible after that, but I did manage to make copies of the Family Record Section before Anna died. 

      The transcription that follows is
as identical to the original Family Record section as I can record it, including the original spellings,capitalizations, and punctuations. 
    The Bible was published in New York in 1874 by the American Bible Society with the title "The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments:  Translated Out of The Original Tongues and With The Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised”.
 
         FIRST PAGE
     Adtson Cokonougher
     Born June 28  1824
 
         
           Elizebeth Cokonougher
     Born October 29, 1820
 
     Sarah. A. Cokonougher
     Born November 17  1848
 
     John Cokonougher
     Born July 14  1850
 
     Mary E Cokonougher
     Born March 18.  1855
 
     Rodenea Cokonougher
     Born January 31  1858
 
     William. H. Cokonougher
     Born February 16. 1862
 
     Lieddy Cokonougher
     Born. September 22,  1863
 
 
     
     SECOND PAGE
 
     Zachriah  Cokonougher
     Born April 2nd 1853
 
     Mary Cokonougher
     Born February 14th   1856
 
     William S. Cokonougher
     Born June the 12th 1874
 
     Provy M. Cokonougher
     Born January 12th 1877
 
     Joseph E Cokonougher and
     Adson E Cokonougher
     Born February 22  1880
 
     John H. Cokonougher
     Born July 6th   1883
 
     Charles S. Cokonougher
     Born September 20th 1886
 
     Anna M. Cokonougher
     Born September 17th  1892
 
 
     
     THIRD PAGE
 
     Zackriah Cokonougher and
     Mary Cokonougher was
     Married August. 29. 1873
 
     
 
     FOURTH PAGE
 
     Adison Cokonougher
     Died December 21, 1882
 
     Elizbeth Cokonougher
     Died September 12, 1872
 
     William H. Cokonougher
     Died October 10  1862
 
     Lieddy Cokonougher
     Died March 20   1874
 
     
 
        FIFTH PAGE
 
     Dorcas Frost. B. Dec. 22. 1872
 
     harvie J Cokonougher
     born June the 23
     1896
 
     Zacriah Cokonougher
     died sep 14  1904




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  1. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2016 at 9:45 AM

    Hey Ralph, this is Ila have you ever come across any information on Nelly Silvertooth? She was either married to my 2 great or 3rd great grandfather on dad's side. We are researching our Indian heritage. Our mom had Indian heritage as well and I know that some tribes look to the maternal side but I am not sure if it is all tribes that do.

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  2. Ralph CokonougherFebruary 25, 2016 at 10:20 AM

    Nancy Neely Sivertooth 1760-1822 was the wife of Jacob Cocanougher 1745-1831, and the mother of George W. Cocanougher 1793-1845. She was of Dutch and Indian heritage. She is buried in the Cocanougher Cemetery on Long Run Road in Washington County, Kentucky. My mother and I corresponded with a Scotty Cocanougher Clenny of Sandy Hook, Kentucky in 1967 and found that a lot of the Cocanougher family live around Springfield, Ky. Scotty was a descendant of Nancy & Jacob.

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