Morgan Cryer Sr.

Bible Record

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                                 Births.                                     
                                                                             
Morgan Cryer                    22 Feb 1756                                  
                                                                             
Mary Cryer                       9 Aug 1782                                  
Elizabeth Cryer                 19 May 1785                                  
Thomas Cryer                    15 Dec 1787                                  
Sally Cryer                                                                  
John Cryer                                                                   
Keziah Cryer                    19 Jan 1797                                  
Morgan Cryer, Jr.               16 Feb 1799                                  
Joice Cryer                     30 Jan 1801                                  
Rebecca Cryer                                                                
Barbarah Cryer                                                               
                                                                             
Harriet Bennett                  6 Dec 1798                                  
Elizabeth Bennett               31 Dec 1800                                  
Thomas Green Bennett            12 Aug 1803                                  
                                                                             
Thomas M. Cryer                  8 Dec 1823                                  
Wiley P. Cryer                  15 July 1825                                 
Wilson F. Cryer                 12 Oct 1827                                  
                                                                             
Mary Sauls                       3 Feb 1801                                  
Henry Franklin Jacobs           25 Sept 1827                                 
Isom Thompson                   12 Nov 1810                                  
Mildred Duty                    30 Sept 1804                                 
Caroline Mildred Morris         31 Oct 1834                                  
                                                                             
Erasmus Cryer                    9 Feb 1850                                  
                                                                             
Lizzie Cryer wife               18 June 1855                                 
of Erasumus Cryer                                                            
                                                                             
Willie Powell Cryer              6 Jan 1874                                  
Lorenza Erasmus Cryer           23 Sept 1877                                 
Clarence Bertrand Cryer         16 July 1884                                 
Edwin McMichael Cryer           11 Mar 1896                                  
                                                                             
Rosa Ann McMichael              14 May 1859                                  
                                                                             
Annabella Rita Cryer               Sep 1922                                  
Edwin Joseph Cryer              25 June 1924                                 
                                                                             
Mary Sarah Cryer Millican       11 Jan 1855                                  
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                                Marriages.                                   
                                                                             
Morgan Cryer and Mildred Duty married Nov 1820.                              
                                                                             
Clarence Cryer and Lillian Pourciau married 25 Aug 1920.                     
                                                                             
Annabella Cryer and Benson Mothe married 15th April 1950.                    
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                                 Deaths.                                     
                                                                             
Thomas Cryer died 11 Aug 1810 in 78th year of age.                           
                                                                             
Mary Cryer                                                                   
Thomas Cryer                                                                 
                                                                             
Morgan Cryer, Sr. died 22nd Oct 1833 in 77th year of age.                    
                                                                             
Caroline Morris died 3rd Nov 1834.                                           
Caroline Mildred Morris died 22nd Oct 1837.                                  
Cynthia Morris died 3rd Aug 1850.                                            
W.P. Morris died 29th July 1852.                                             
                                                                             
Mildred Duty Cryer died 2nd Dec 1857, 53rd year of age.                      
                                                                             
Richard Duty died Dec. 15, 1836.                                             
Matthew Duty died June 1836.                                                 
George Duty died Sep 1834.                                                   
                                                                             
Wilson F. Cryer died 27 Nov 1850.                                            
                                                                             
Thomas M. Cryer died 21 Aug 1860.                                            
                                                                             
Ailcy F. Cryer departed this life at Lewisville, Ark., 6th July 1865.        
                                                                             
Morgan Cryer departed this life at Amite City, La., 14 Dec 1881,             
83rd year of age.                                                            
                                                                             
Rosa Ann McMichael departed this life in Amite, La., 24 Jan 1924,            
73rd year of age.                                                            
                                                                             
Willie Powell Cryer died 19 Jan 1900 at McComb, Miss.                        
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This Bible was brought to the Hempstead County, Arkansas county court by     
Morgan Cryer Sr. to provide evidence of his age when he applied for a        
pension on October 15, 1832 for his service during the Revolutionary War.    
After his death on October 22, 1833 it passed to his son Morgan Cryer, Jr.   
who moved near Amite, Louisiana where he died on December 14, 1881. The      
Bible was passed from him to his grandson Erasmus Cryer son of Wiley Powell  
Cryer and following his death on January 10, 1924 it passed to his son       
Clarence Bertrand Cryer.                                                     
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