Family Bible of Margaret Wilson & John Bowden Pridgen

Family Bible of Margaret Lucinda Wilson & John Bowden Pridgen
Owned by Betty Jo Brasher Baade, San Antonio, TX


The following is a transcription of the Family Bible of Margaret Lucinda Wilson Pridgen and her husband, John Bowden Pridgen which is now owned by Betty Jo Brasher Baade, their grandaughter. Betty lives here in San Antonio, TX and allowed me to copy/photograph some pages from this Bible from which I am transcribing.


INSIDE COVER:

This was the Family Bible of Margaret Lucinda Wilson Pridgen and her husband, John Bowden Pridgen, great grandparents of Patricia Jo Baade (Betty Baade's daughter). Margaret Lucinda and John Bowden were married in 1876.

(At the bottom of the page is an actual dime dated 1852 taped to the page with the following:) 1852 Dime - Worn on chain as necklace by Nettie Bethana Pridgen, Born July 24, 1877. Died at age 5, November 12, 1882. Great Aunt of Patricia Jo Baade.


BIRTHS PAGE:

Nettie PridgenJuly 24, 1877
Wilson B PridgenApril 11, 1879
Ethel Pridgen BrooksNovember 17, 1881
Pearl Pridgen ConwellJuly 23, 1886
Ross E. PridgenJune 19, 1888
Mary Pridgen BrasherMarch 27, 1891; Died August 18,1988
Floyd PridgenMarch 29, 1894
Betty Jo Brasher Baade (Mary's daughter)April 6, 1926
Patricia Jo Baade (Betty Jo's daughter)December 11, 1953
John L. Pridgen   Thomaston, TXMarch 9, 1884
Mozelle Beaty Pridgen;  Waco, TXDecember 7, 1886; Died May 22, 1983
Evelyn Pridgen (Daughter of John & Mozelle) Waco, TXMay 24, 1910; Died July 2, 1972
John L. Pridgen, Jr. Gillette, TXJanuary 11, 1913 Died December 31, 1996
Sharpe McCullough (Son of Evelyn & Sharpe McCullough) San Antonio, TXMay 1, 1937


DEATHS PAGE:

Joseph Clifton- Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Born December 15, 1878 - Died August 21, 1959
Mary Alma Pridgen Brasher- Born March 27, 1891, Died August 18, 1988 - Born in Thomaston, Texas
Nettie Pridgen- Born July 24, 1877 - Died November 12, 1882
"Baby" Ellis Pridgen Brooks- Born February 3 (maybe 2nd), 1903 (maybe 1900 or 1908) - Died March 13, 1906
John B. Pridgen "Father"- Born April 3, 1853 - Died January 19, 1896
Ethel E. Pridgen- Born November 17, 1881 - Died August 16, 1918
Ross E. Pridgen- Born June 19, 1888 - Died August 3, 1921
Margaret L. Pridgen "Mother"- Born June 10, 1860 - Died August 17, 1936
Lorraine "Brooks" Busby Shamblin- July 1906 - December 10, 1957
Nora "Brown" Pridgen (Floyd's wife)
Floyd Pridgen- Born March 19, 1894 - Died May 16, 1967
Wilson B. Pridgen- Born April 11, 1879 - Died April 2, 1970
Pearl M. Pridgen Conwell- Born July 23, 1886 - Died June 16, 1970
Dr. John Leslie Pridgen- Born March 9, 1884 - Died February 17, 1961
Gloria Busby Newton- Born March 15, 1925 - Died January 17, 1979

Dianne Newton Walker (Mrs. Timmy Walker), Earl Newton, Jr., daughter and son of Gloria Dollie Marie (Busby) Shamblin Scott, (Lorraine's daughter) Lorraine (Rainey) Scott, Dollie's daughter


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