Jones County, NC - Bible Records

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KORNEGAY, SIMMONS, WATKINS, TEATE BIBLE

A typed copy of the Bible found at NSDAR Library in Washington, DC, Mississippi 
GRC  Vol 1934 p135.  Information on location sent by Roger Kammerer and posted with 
permission of the DAR Library. This Bible was located in West Point, Mississippi. 

Bible published by A. C. Goodman & Co. in 1850

I, Hettie Cooper Watkins, copied the following births from the old family Bible of my 
Great grand Father Isaac Kornegay July 31, 1909.

Isaac Kornegay was born April 15th 1766

Hester Hargett Kornegay his wife was born May 21st 1772

The following sons and daughters was born unto them

Hargett Kornegay was born on Friday September 17th 1793

Abraham Bryan was born January 9th 1795

Nancy was born Sunday morning August 7th 1796

Isler was born Friday January 9th 1799

Isaac was born Friday October 31, 1800

Lewis Williams was born Wednesday August 10, 1803

Hester was born Tuesday September 3rd 1805

Immanuel was born Tuesday May 26, 1807

Polly was born Thursday December 22, 1808

Ahasuerus was born Tuesday April 5th 1814

Eliza was born Friday January 12th 1816

William Simmons Kornegay born Saturday evening April 27th 1816
(He must have been a grandson as he and Eliza was born in the same year)

William Bryant Watkins son of S. G. and Pollie Watkins was born 4th of February 1831

Catherine Brock Kornegay second wife of Isaac Kornegay was born October 13th 1772

Easther Aldridge (maiden name) Wooten (widow) Kornegay third wife of Isaac 
Kornegay was born January 22nd 1789  (she was Aunt Dollies Grandmother)

Caroline Kornegay daughter of Isaac and Easther Kornegay was born September 16, 
1831  (She was Aunt Dollies Mother)

Clarissa Kornegay daughter of Isaac and Esther his wife was born 17th September 1833 
Tuesday half past three Oclock

Peter Bond Wooten was born August 4th 1826 (this was a son of Esther Aldrich Wooten 
when she married Isaac Kornegay, half brother to Caroline and Clarissa Kornegay but no 
kin to the rest of the Kornegays)

Thomas Jefferson Teate was born July 26, 1816 in NC (Aunt Dollies father)

Manasseh Zelmonah daughter of Caroline Thomas Jefferson Teate was born 20th March 
1855 (Aunt Dollie)

Thomas Abner Teate son of Thomas J. Teate and Caroline Teate ws born 19th August 
1857

Cornelia Theodosa Teate was born October 16th 1859

Harriet (Hattie) Louisa Teate was born September 11th 1863

Annie Lee Simmons daughter of William Lamb Simmons and Manasseh his wife was 
born Oct 23th 1880 (Dollie)

Ada May daughter of W. L. and M. Z. Simmons born 8th August 1888, dead

Jessie Viola daughter of David Tray Connell and Hattie Louise his wife was born August 
11th 1880

Isaac Kornegay and Hester Hargett was married 18th March 1792

Hargett Kornegay their son was married to Susannah Simmons on Thursday 20th of April 
1815

Isler Kornegay their son was married to Sallie Hines November 9th 1824

Stephen Gilmore Watkins and Pollie Kornegay their daughter was married 22th 
December 1829

Louis Williams Kornegay their son and Sarah Keaton was married April 13th 1830

John Whitfield and Nancy Kornegay their daughter married 6th June 1819

George Washington Simmons and Hester Kornegay their daughter married August 14th 
1823

William Goodson and Nancy Kornegay Whitfield their daughter married April 1828

James Windows and Eliza Kornegay their daughter was married 27th March 1833

Isaac and Catherine Brock his second wife was married 23rd May 1819

Isaac Kornegay and Easter Aldridge Wooten his third wife was married 5th December 
1830

Thomas Jefferson Teate and Caroline Kornegay daughter of Isaac and Esther A. W. 
Kornegay was married 4th June 1850

William Taylor and Clarissa Kornegay daughter of Isaac and Easter A.W. Kornegay 
was married about 1846.  She married a Methis Preacher and lived in Georgia.

William Lamb Simmons and Manasseh Zelmonah Teate daughter of Thomas J. and 
Caroline Teate married 20th March 1872

Thomas Jefferson Teate son of Thomas J. and Caroline Teate married Nora Luten 
Wednesday September 4th 1884

C. T. Teate married Laura High about 1882

James Clarence Moody and Annie Lee Simmons daughter of William Lamb and 
Manasseh Zelmonah Simmons was married 27 March 1902

Thomas Jefferson (son) Teat married his second wife Mary Frances Lousiana Simmons 
(maiden name) Shepard (widow) March 27th 1873

G. H. Watkins and Hettie Cooper married April 1870

Came to Mississippi 1832 from Duplin County, North Carolina

George W. Simmons and Hester Kornegay was married the 14th of August 1823

Williams Cooper and Ann. I. Simmons was married the 29th of August 1850

Dudley Kornegay and Eliza C. Simmons was married the 13th of May 1852

Samuel S. Simmons and S. J. Spears were married 14th of Sept. 1854 at 5 o'clcock 
by the Reve, Abe Harris

Ann I. Cooper daughter of Geo. W. and Hester Simmons was married to Geo. M. Mullen 
on the 12th day of March 1860

Samuel S. Simmons was married to Miss Clarra E. Israil (sic) on the 1st day of October 
1860

Alfred Simmons was married to Martha M. Brewer on the 2nd Dec 1858

Pennie D. Simmons and George W. Morrow were married November the 28th A. D. 1860

F. H. Simmons and Elizabeth Hill was married the 29th of January 1864

G. W. Simmons and S. O. Israel was married the 21st September 1863

Fannie L. Simmons and J. M. Shepherd were married Feb the 25th 1863 ?

BIRTHS

George W. (Washington) Simmons was borne the 28th of September 1794

Hester his wife was borne the 3rd of September 1805

Alfred Simmons their son was borne the 10th of January 1825

Frederick H. Simmons was borne the 26th of November 1827

Ann Isler Simmons was borne the 25th of September 1829

Samuel S. Simmons was borne the 13th of June 1831

Eliza C. Simmons was borne 27th of February 1833

Isaac Daniel Simmons was borne the 26th of January 1836

Penelope D. Simmons was borne the 23rd of February 1838

George W. Simmons was borne the 17th of July 1840

Mary Frances Louasana Simmons was borne the 28th of May 1845

William Lamb Simmons was borne the 20th of November 1846

Mary Cooper was born July 18th 1851 (grand child)

George Nathan (Simmons) was born the 19th of February 1856 (G. child)

Hetty Cooper was borne the 12th of March 1854 (Grand child)

John Cooper was borne the 30th of Jan ?? 1856

Willie Eugene Sheppard born August 26th 1870

Alonza G. Morrow was borne September the 10 1862

Penelope E. Morrow was borne July the 15, 1866

Jeff Mullen was born on the 18th of December 1860

John Mullen was born on the 16th of January 1863

Cooper Mullen was born on the 23rd day of March 1866

Thaddeus Hargrett Watkins Born Sept 12th 1832

Hettie Cooper Born March 12th 1854

Stephen Gilmore Watkins Born September 14th 1871

William Allen Watkins Born March 1sy 1874

Rufus Edward Watkins Born January 11th 1876

Mary Ruth Watkins Born May 28th 1892 (Great Grand child of G. W. & Hester
Simmons)

Mary Ruth Watkins married George William Grimes Oct. 28  1903

George W. Grimes Died July 1904

Mary Ruth W. Grimes married John Rains Egger Dec. 7-1910

Hettie Ruth Egger Born Nov. 3-1911

John Gilmore Egger Born March 7-1915

DEATHS

Isaac D. Simmons died the 29th of September 1843

Eliza C. Simmons died the 22nd of February 1853

Sarah Jane Simmons died the 22nd of April 1856

John Cooper died the 16th of December 1856

Alfred Simmons died the 22nd of October 1861

Penelope D. Morrow died August the 19th 1866

S. S. Simmons died the 12th of October 1867 at 8 oclock PM

George W. (Washington) Simmons Syn departed this life the 22nd of February 1871 (my 
grandfather)

Departed this life after weeks of suffering which she bore with great fortitude on Monday 
the 8th day of Dec. 186??8, Ann. I. Mullen wife of Geo. M. Mullen aged 30 years, 2 mo, 
and 23 days

Hester Kornegay Simmons wife of George Washington Simmons departed this life 
December 17th 1890

Abraham Brian Kornegay died 9th June 1795

William Kornegay Son (sic) died 22th June 1812 (this William Kornegay was father to 
Isaac Kornegay my Great Grand Father)

Joseph, Son of William Kornegay died 31st January 1769

Anna Greer died December 7th 1780

Mary Ernal died the 5 January 1787

Elizabeth Kornegay wife of William Kornegay died 30th of April 1821 being 78 years old

Hester Hargett Kornegay wife of Isaac Kornegay died 9th of October 1817.  (I know she 
is my Great Grandmother and Thad Grandmother on his mothers side?

Zilpha Outlaw died 24th August 1818

Caty Kornegay died 20th December 1828 (could be 1823 mmm)

Elizabeth Wooten departed this life 10th October 1834

Isaac Kornegay departed this life March 29th 1838 and funeral was preached by Elder 
William J. Finley May (sic) 31st 1838 from Reverlation 14th Chapter and 13 verse

Caroline wife of Thos. Jefferson Teate died June 30, 1867 Monday morning 5 oclock

NOTE:  There appears to be one additional entry at the bottom but it was cut off on the 
original copy.

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