bulkley bijbel

Bulkley bijbel . In veel familie´s wordt er een familiebijbel bijgehouden . Geboorte en overlijden wordt er keurig in bijgehouden . Deze bijbels worden doorgegeven in de familie, maar komen ook wel eens terecht in een boekwinkel . Iedereen vindt het zonde om weg te doen ,maar heeft er ook geen binding mee. Deze bijbel is gevonden en de erfgenamen kunnen zich melden. Lees hier het hele verhaal. St. John's United Methodist Church's library is trying to trace the origins of an antique family Bible found in the church's offices. The leather-bound, gold-stamped Bible dates to 1870, according to interior markings, but none of the spaces provided for family information, such as births, deaths and marriages, have been filled in. The Bible was recently found atop a shelf in an office being cleared out for renovations in June, according to library volunteer Janel Poe. "It was brought to the library, and that's when it came to my attention, when I noticed it on our cart, and I said we need to find out about this because it's a wonderful discovery," Poe said. "It's in wonderful condition for something that old. The binding is so easy to damage, and it's so old, but it's intact." Asking around the church, a member said she had seen a similar Bible in the 2002 or 2003 Apple Festival rummage sale; it hadn't sold through the rummage sale at $25, and she held it back from the donations to a charity thrift store after the sale, thinking it belonged in the St. John's library. The Bible disappeared after that point. The best clue to the Bible's origins turned out to be a few vintage photographs tucked into the pages, Poe said. Loose in the front cover was an 8- by 10-inch portrait reproduction of a man, with a cursive signature no one could decipher, and in the back photo pockets were two original pocket-sized portraits of young women. All of the pictures were marked "Rockville, Conn." on the back. "Allen Riddick of the Aiken County Historical Society has been a great help; he suggested I get in touch with the Historical Society up there," Poe said. "I sent copies of the pictures and everything we had and got a nice letter back that starts out, 'Dear Janel, We got your packet today, and we became history detectives immediately.' That was in September. They found out the man is Morgan Gardner Bulkeley and sent me a lot of information on him." Bulkeley was a Connecticut businessman politician of the late 19th and early 20th century. He helped found the United States Bank in Hartford, and was the third president of Aetna Life Insurance Co., a position he held for around 43 years. He served as Hartford's mayor from 1879 to 1887, governor of Connecticut from 1889 to 1893 and U.S. senator from 1905 to 1911. But Bulkeley's connection to the Bible and its original owners is unclear. The photos of the two young women, being original photographs and placed in slots designed for pictures in the Bible, seem more likely to be representatives of the Bible's original home; but there is no clue as to those women's identities. To help generate leads, Poe enlarged photographs of the Bible and its enclosures, took them to Hobby Lobby for matting and created a bulletin board to put up in one of St. John's hallways. The Bible resides in a locked glass case on the main hall for safekeeping. "I'm trying to find out were these two young ladies part of the Winter Colony? How did this Bible get from Connecticut to Aiken? Was it a member of our church that gave us the Bible? We'd really like to know," she said. "We'd like to just tie it up. It's a wonderful adventure." Anyone with information on the Bible or the women in the images can contact Poe at 658-4541 or 640-1129 or email her at leepoe@mindspring.com. Suzanne Stone is a general assignment reporter at the Aiken Standard. Contact Suzanne Stone at sstone@aikenstandard.com, or follow on Twitter at #SuzanneRStone and on Facebook at Suzanne Stone | Aiken Standard.