Grandmom Harvey's Bible

[These records used to appear on my FamilyTreeMaker website but disappeared recently.]

Thanks to cousin Jane Ulrich Wilkerson for photocopies of these old pages from my great-great-grandmother Maria Fassett Harvey’s Bible. Each 8”x10” page has a printed border of a marble pediment supported by two Corinthian columns and a drawing suitable for the page. Figures in the drawings are dressed circa 1850-60.

It is all written in the same elegant handwriting until 1910. It doesn’t seem to be a running record. Rather, most of it was entered in a new Bible at a later date and then updated, particularly since the births are grouped by families: her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and wider family and friends. I have copied it verbatim in spite of paper tears, ink blotches and corrections and misspellings. My notations are in [brackets].

FAMILY RECORD

Marriages

Married By the Rev. James Pratt, Rector of the Church of the Covenant in Philadelphia citty [sic] James Harvey to Maria Fassett Both of this citty December 1^st 1859.

Married by the Rev. Chas. D. Cooper rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Phila. City Harry C. Huff to Mary A. Harvey Both of this city Dec. 15^th 1885.

Married by the Rev. Henry S. Getz assistant rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Phila City. Charles A. McFarland to Maria F. Harvey Both of this city. May 16^th 1888. 

Married by the Rev. William F. Ayer Minister in charge of the Memorial Chapel of the Holy Communion in Phila City. James Mills to Emma L. Harvey Both of this City. October 27^th 1896.

Thomas E. Harvey to Margaret Orr By the Rev. Wm. F. Ayer Jan. 9, 1902

James G. Harvey to Martha J. Topping by the Rev. Wm. F. Ayer, Nov _____.

 

Births

William J. Harvey - Born January 9^th 1861
Mary Egnes Harvey - Born Aug 15^th 1862
Maria Fassett Harvey - Born Friday, Aug 19^th 1864
Emme Levene Harvey – Born Sunday, April 30^th 1866
Margarat [sic] Jane Harvey – Born Sunday, December 19^th 1868
William J. Harvey – Born Thursday, February 16^th 1871
Sarah Elisabeth Harvey – Born Monday, February 24^th 1873
James Grier Harvey – Born Tuesday, December 15^th 1874
Sarah Flo. P. Harvey – Born Tuesday, July 10^th, 1877
Thomas Edwin Harvey – Born Sat. Aug. 7^th 1880

[Notation along side margin bracketing these names “10 children.” Doesn’t look like same handwriting. The pen nib seems to change here.]

James Harvey Huff – Born Jan 2^d 1887 Sun.
Maria Florence McFarland – Born Feb. 10^th 1889 Sun.
Harry Castle Huff – Born Sep. 21^st 1889 Sat.
Walter Grier McFarland – Born Jan 24^th 1891 Sat.
Edith May McFarland – Born Nov 7^th 1892 Mon.

Births, page 2 [these were added on other sheets of paper]

John McMullin – Born Aug 11^th 1860
Stephen H. Kearney – Born Jan 28, 1860
Mary J. Irvin – Born November 14^th 1860
Mary E. Muldrew – Born Oct. 8^th 1861
Franey [Francy] Irvin – Born Nov. 5^th 1862
Sally [long space] Irvin – Born Febuery 11^th 1864
William H. Fassett – Born June 15^th 1866
John Alexander Fassett – Born Nov 26^th 1868
Maria Fassett McGowen – Born Nov 14^th 1870
Samuel Irwin – Born March 28^th 1867
William John Irwin – Born Sept 21^st 1869
Laura May Fassett – Born March 28^th 187__ [later margin notation “Aunt Laura Collins”]
Elisabeth [Irvine?] McMullin – Born Feb 20, 18__
Emma Lavinia Huff – Born July 3^rd 1895 Wednesday
Mabel Fassett McFarland – Born April 27^th 1897 Tuesday
Eliza Turner Mills – Born July 11^th 1897 Sunday
Emma Lavinia Mills – Born Dec 14^th 1898 Wednesday
Edith May Mills – Born Jan 20^th 1900 Saturday
Ruth McFarland Harvey – Born Oct 8, 1903 Wednesday
Charles Adams McFarland – Born March 3^rd, 1895, Sunday

Births, page 3

Thomas Harvey McFarland – Born Sunday, December 16, 1900 
Ruth Naomi McFarland – Born August 20, 1906
William Francis Ayer Harvey – Born October 4, 1903 [named for the minister at Holy Communion Chapel who married his parents James & Martha Harvey]
James Grier Harvey McFarland – Born May 15, 1909
Thomas Edwin Harvey, Jr. – Born June 14, 1910 Tuesday
Mary Dorothy Harvey – Born Jan 17, 1913 Friday

 

Deaths

[All listings included “Departed this Life” causing parts of the date, usually the year, to be written over the page’s picture border.]

Mrs. Maria Fassett – Departed this Life Sept 9^th 1860. Aged 45 years.

William John Harvey – Departed this Life Febuary 28, 1862  [should be 1865 per Death Certificate]

William Fassett – Departed this Life Sunday July 28, 1867

Mary E. Hutchinson – Departed this Life Wensday Dec 10^th 1868 [12/10/1868 was Thurs]

William J. Harvey Senior – Departed this Life Tuesday May 4^th 1869

James S. Harvey Sr. – Departed this Life Sept 30^th 1870

Sarah E. Harvey – Departed this Life Aug 6^th 1870 [should be 1873]

Sarah Flo. P. Harvey – Departed this Life Sep 15^th 1883

Mary E. Muldrew – Departed this Life March 28, 1883

Maggie Jane Harvey – Departed this Life Jan 11^th 1885 Sun.

Thomas Harvey – Departed this Life April 3^rd 1888  [who?]

Eliza Turner Mills – Departed this Life Dec. 7^th 1897

Edith May McFarland – Departed this Life April 15^th 1898

James Harvey Sr. – Departed this Life April 7^th 1899

Ruth McFarland Harvey – Departed this Life Sep. 15, 1904

Maria Harvey - Mother – Departed this Life July 21, 1930

James Grier Harvey – Departed this Life Dec 1^st 1946

Thomas Edwin Harvey Died 1969

Margt Orr Harvey Died 1960

Anna M. (Doyle) Harvey Died Aug 4, 1982